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Gender Issues at the World Summit 2005

gender issues at the
2005 World Summit

Featured Resources

Progress of the Worlds Women 2002Progress of the World's Women 2002, Volume 2 (2002). "Progress of the Worlds Women 2002" provides a snapshot of the state of womens lives around the world and how much further we have to go to achieve equality. The report is the second edition of a biennial publication first produced in 2000 to track and measure the world's commitment to gender equality. It assesses improvements made towards women's empowerment within the context of the Millennium Development Goals. more »
Pathway to Gender Equality: CEDAW, Beijing and the MDGsPathway to Gender Equality: CEDAW, Beijing and the MDGs (2004). "Pathway to Gender Equality" details how the synergy between CEDAW, the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Development Goals can be used to generate a wealth of understanding and knowledge that portrays the nature of gender-based discrimination and defines the steps needed to achieve gender equality. more »
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Photo Credits

The photographs used in the masthead of this UNIFEM web corner come from the following sources (in the order displayed):

  1. Credit: Copyright © 1996 Lauren Goodsmith, courtesy of Photoshare.
    Caption: A woman and her daughter at home in Morocco. (Photograph has been cropped to show the woman only.)
  2. Credit: Copyright © 2001 Sammy Ndwiga, courtesy of Photoshare.
    Caption: An adolescent Kikuyu girl in Nairobi, Kenya.
  3. Credit: Copyright © 2004 Eduardo Gómez.
  4. Credit: Copyright © 1993 Lamia Jaroudi/CCP, courtesy of Photoshare.
    Caption: Women visit a clinic in Oman. (Photograph has been cropped to show only one woman.)
  5. Credit: Copyright © 1999 Pham Hong Long/NCPFP, courtesy of Photoshare.
    Caption: A young woman smiles for the camera in Vietnam.
  6. Credit: Copyright © Danielle Baron/CCP, courtesy of Photoshare.
    Caption: A woman in Senegal.
  7. Credit: Copyright © 2000 Mike Jay Browne, courtesy of Photoshare.
    Caption: A homeless mother and son live on waste ground near the Arad railway station in Romania. (Photograph has been cropped to show the mother only.)
  8. Credit: Copyright © 1991 CCP, courtesy of Photoshare.
    Caption: A young woman at a family planning clinic in Cairo, Egypt.