Report / White Paper

Advancing Gender Equality in National Climate Plans: Progress and Higher Ambitions highlights the latest data on country progress in integrating gender considerations into their national climate plans, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), under the UN

This is a House of Commons Committee report, with recommendations to government. The Government has two months to respond.

Indians accept women as political leaders, but many favor traditional gender roles in family life.

This report and accompanying policy brief is intended to trigger a UN ‘rethink’ about women’s participation in transitional justice at both the policy and programme levels.

The number of women in parliament is consistently low throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Many factors contribute to this situation, but studies suggest that one major factor relates to the way that women are treated on social media.

The world walked into 2021 with the shadow of COVID-19 looming large over its head. As well as posing a major health risk, the pandemic had also caused economic and social upheaval.

This report assesses women’s access to justice and women’s political participation in parliament, local councils and civil society organisations in Colombia.

Although a voluminous literature has studied the substantive representation of women, these studies have largely been confined to advanced democracies.

How do quotas for women in Sri Lanka’s local government institutions affect key governance indicators such as perceived fairness, institutional trust, and perceived performance?