This handbook handbook is intended to provide a quick reference guide to assist headquarters- and field based actors from the United Nations, Governments and civil society working to promote greater participation of women in electoral processes in post-conflict countries.

International migration for work is becoming a long term feature of the Asian region in the recent context of globalization.

UNIFEM strives to increase women’s visibility and participation in peace processes, strengthen protection mechanisms, and incorporate gender equality provisions across democratic systems established once hostilities come to a close.

The training manual "Gender, HIV and Human Rights" is an invaluable resource for community-based AIDS workers.

This handbook is meant to be a tool for people working in areas affected by war and armed conflict and in the peace and rebuilding process.

The purpose of Breaking the Links Between Poverty and Violence Against Women: A Resource Guide is to support the efforts of women’s groups, community organizations and service agencies to support low-income women to take control of and deal with the poverty and violence in their lives. A secondary goal is to inspire community-based groups to take action on poverty and violence issues by providing practical examples of what others are doing.

Leading to Choices, developed by the Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) in collaboration with its partner organizations in the Global South, is based on a conceptualization of leadership as horizontal, inclusive, and participatory. WLP views leadership as a process that leads to greater choices for all by fostering communication among individuals who learn from each other, create a shared vision, and reach a common goal forged by consensus.

Women's equality and status in society are directly linked to their enjoyment of reproductive rights. Around the world, human rights law and international commitments require governments to reform laws and policies that deny women these rights.

Despite wide international legal support for a woman's right to access safe and legal abortion, the procedure still remains unsafe and out of reach for many women around the globe.

These Guidelines offer practical advice on how to design strategies and carry out activities aimed at preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence. They also contain information on basic health, legal, security and human rights issues relevant to those strategies and activities.

For Assessment & Program Design, Monitoring & Evaluation in conflict-affected settings.

Amnesty International has published a guide on using the law to press governments to implement their obligations toward women in armed conflict.

In recent years, much attention has been devoted by international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academics and certain governments to the plight, needs and rights of women affected by armed conflict. The aim of this Guidance Document is to provide a working tool to ensure the provision of appropriate programmes and services to, and with, women affected by armed conflict.

From 20-24 April, 2009, Indigenous representatives from the Arctic, North America, Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa, Caribbean and Russia met in Anchorage, Alaska for the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change. As a result The Anchorage Declaration was created.

The International Institute for Environment and Development has published a new briefing paper on information and communications technologies and development in the global South.

The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is one of the six core international human rights instruments and the only one focused exclusively on eliminating discrimination against women. Given that indigenous women have been and continue to be subject to multiple forms of discrimination, it is obviously of great relevance to indigenous peoples’ rights.

To develop its understanding of fundamentalisms, their impact on women and their relationship with contemporary political and economic developments, APWLD initiated the fundamentalisms paper which evolved through a two-year process of interactive dialogue and discussions within the programmes and governance bodies of APWLD.

This important manual developed by Marina Bernal, Artemisa, and Elige, is a valuable asset for all women engaged in the task of constructing and inhabiting a world in which all of us can fulfill our best potential. An indispensable tool, it invites us to stand our ground while attempting to undo the injustices meted out to us, and nurture the inherent resources that are so easily depleted: our bodies, affection, intelligence, creativity, spirituality…and ourselves.

WHO and UNAIDS resource kit for writing Global Fund round 9 HIV proposals

This publication introduces WWB’s new methodology for helping MFIs support gender diversity at all levels of their institution. WWB has expanded its Women’s Leadership Development Program, which works with individuals, to include a tool that focuses on the challenges and opportunities microfinance institutions face in the attraction, retention, and promotion of qualified women staff members - the Organizational Gender Assessment.

A toolkit for environmental activists.

This exhibition looks at the diversities and commonalities of women's dress through space and time, highlighting the influence of many forces - class, status, region, work, religious interpretation, ethnicity, urban/rural, politics, fashion, climate etc.

On the way to improved legal reality is the latest in a series of three GTZ publications relating to women's rights in the Arab world.

Mobiles in-a-box from the Tactical Technology Collective is a collection of tools, tactics, how-to guides and case studies designed to help advocacy and activist organisations use mobile technology in their work.

“Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 14(1)