Report / White Paper

This brochure provides an overview and analysis of progress made, and setbacks encountered, by women in accessing parliament during elections and renewals held in 2007.

As part of its efforts to strengthen the capacity of parliaments to promote gender equality and respect for women's rights, the IPU organised a first seminar of parliamentary bodies dealing with gender issues.

This paper describes UNIFEM’s work in empowering women in Afghanistan since early 2002. UNIFEM's activities aimed at supporting women’s leadership and participation in decision-making, strengthening the Ministry of Women’s Affairs in Afghanistan, and establishing women's Development Centers.

By presenting methods for generating pro-poor gender sensitive indicators, this framework assists policy-makers to monitor and evaluate democratic governance at the country level.

This paper describes experiences of the CIS countries with integrating gender equality in national policies and budgets.

This report identifies differences in attitudes between men and women toward discrimination against women and gender related human rights violations.

This report describes women's portrayal in media and their limited participation in the creation of media policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This report analyses the budgets of four public institutions working on social protection in Republika Srpska of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It assesses public resources allocated to provide services to domestic violence victims, with a focus on domestic violence shelters.

This report examines the role of women in development processes and stereotypes existing in society against women in Bosnia and Herzegovina.