Women's Leadership

Women activists say they won a major step forward with Egypt's new constitution, which enshrined greater rights for women. But months after its passage, they're worrying whether those rights will be implemented or will turn out to be merely ink on paper.

The World Bank’s World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development (WDR2012)
identified women’s voice, agency and participation as a key dimension of gender equality and as a major

This report looks at women's potential contributions to peacebuilding from the under-explored angle of natural resources, relating the ways they use, manage, benefit from the latter to their access to participation in peacebuilding.