Report / White Paper

This report aims to give as comprehensive a picture as possible of positive action, to explain how it interrelates with the principle of non-discrimination and how it interacts with other tools, such as gender mainstreaming.

This report analyzes Russia's compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

This report aims to improve understanding of the links between gender issues, public policy, and development in order to foster a stronger commitment to promoting gender equality.

This report analyzes Serbia's compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

This report has three main objectives: to show the strong linkages between gender equality and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); to show that working for gender equality offers a compelling, win-win approach for policy makers and planners towards attaining and implementing the MDGs; and to

This report describes a pilot project in north central Vietnam, which has instituted an approach to land titling that gives both women and men rights to use land.

This report highlights key features of the approaches used in Indonesia to ensure women’s voice in community-driven development (CDD) projects. It focuses particularly on the Kecamatan Development Projects (KDP) and the Water and Sanitation for Low Income Communities Projects (WSLIC).

This report describes the efforts of the World Bank to achieve the goals set forth in the Beijing Platform for Action.

This review focuses on two of the most common types of violence against women: physical intimate partner violence and sexual violence by any perpetrator. It provides definitions, recent statistics, health consequences, costs, and risk factors relating to gender-based violence.