Gender
Developing a Human Rights-Based Approach to Addressing Maternal Mortality - Desk Review
DFID Health Resource Centre, January 2005.
The purpose of this Desk Review is to provide an evidence-based assessment of the potential of rights-based approaches for accelerating a reduction in maternal mortality. In particular, to identify how a rights perspective can increase the focus on equity and thus improve health outcomes for poor women. The argument developed in this Review is that carefully contextualised rights-based approaches can add a critical impetus to existing means of reducing maternal mortality. This can be achieved by enabling key policy actors in both government and civil society to recognise and find ways of directly addressing the economic, social, cultural and political forces that constrain poor women and their families from asserting their right to maternal health.
Budgeting for Womens’ Rights – Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW
Diane Elson, UNIFEM, May 2006.
This report provides a framework for applying a rights-approach to budgets from a gender perspective that defines the requirements of good budget performance in the planning, formulation and execution stages. It also details the elements that require a critical assessment of budget policy making processes, the appropriateness of budget allocations, and the standard principles for non-discriminatory economic and budgets policies. This report is timely in the context of discussions on aid effectiveness and new aid modalities. It responds to the challenge of implementation and the need for more concrete measures to be undertaken to increase accountability and ensure the achievement of the MDGs.Gender equality advocates have increasingly used gender budget analysis tools to identify existing gender gaps and biases in budget allocation, spending and revenue raising measures. The report uses examples of such work to illustrate the relevance of the rights based approach to gender budgeting.
Human Rights, Formalisation, and Women’s Land Rights in Southern and Eastern Africa
Authors: Ingunn Ikdahl, Anne Hellum, Randi Kaarhus, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Patricia Kameri-Mbote Revised version of Noragric Report No. 26, June 2005, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
This report looks at securing equal land rights for women in Africa by taking a HRBA to tackling the issues at hand. In chapter three, the authors lay out a framework/standards, for gender equal land reform. It presents 5 case studies in different African countries, acknowledging the present laws and customs in the area and how a HRBA to land reform could be undertaken and recognizing what action States and various parties should pursue.
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Optional Protocol, Association for Women's Rights in Development
August 2002.
The International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, Association for Women's Rights in Development
August 2002.
A Rights-Based Approach to Development
Association for Women's Rights to Development. August 2002.
A rights based approach to development builds on the experiences and expertise of two significant branches of the women's movement: development and human rights. This primer describes the approach, presents its benefits to the development community, and suggests some ways that it can be used.
Silence Breaking: The Women's Dimension of the Human Rights Box
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Human Rights Dialogue, Series 2, No. 3, summer 2000.
Gender electoral quotas in India
A global database of quotas for women. This is a joint project of International IDEA and Stockholm University.
A Human Rights Approach to UNICEF Programming for Children and Women: What it is, and some changes it will bring
UNICEF, April 1998.
Integration of Rights into Thematic Areas: A Rights-Based Approach to Gender
UNDP.
This short summary provides insight into the fundamental changes that have resulted from analyzing gender within a rights and development framework. A short overview on the history and development of women’s rights is useful in explaining why there is a need for additional rights protection mechanisms for women. The UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which came into force in 1981, has been one of the main providers of these additional protections, however, many gaps remain. Entry points for the implementation of gender and rights- based strategies are explored as being possible solutions to these gaps.