Report / White Paper

This report illustrates how Sudanese women are defining the development agenda for their country. It examines the role women have played in the Sudanese peace process and lists recommendations for accelerating achievement of the Millennium Development Goals with, and for, women.

This collection of resources on gender and armed conflict sheds light on how gender inequality intersects with armed conflict and its aftermath, resulting in gender-specific disadvantage that is often overlooked.

Conventional understandings of war and its aftermath overlook the impact on gender relations. Gender inequality pre-dates and is often exacerbated by conflict. But this does not mean that women are always victims and men only perpetrators. Men also suffer from torture and violence.

The paper attempts to situate the discussion of reservation (quotas) for women both in the wider historical and contemporary context of reservation for the historically disadvantaged groups in India.1 The paper also examines the contemporary experience of one-third reservation for women in the lo

The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing marked a significant turning point for the global agenda for gender equality.