| Asian
Women Entrepreneurs |
An AsiaTODAY special report (June 28, 2004):
news & commentary; resources; links |
| Asian
Women's Resource Exchange (AWORC) |
"an Internet-based women's information
service & network in Asia ...promoting Net literacy & enhancing
social activism among individual women & women's organizations" |
| Asia's
Most Influential Women |
Asiaweek's profiles of 7 Asian women
(7/13/01) |
 Beijing
Betrayed: Women Worldwide Report that Governments Have Failed to
Turn the Platform into Action |
Report by Women's Environment & Development
Organization, "assessing governments’ progress in implementing
the commitments they made to the world’s women at the United Nations
Fourth World Conference on Women that met in Beijing in 1995" (2005;
PDF format) |
| Breaking
Up: Asia's Divorce Boom |
Time Asia special report (March 29,
2004) |
| A
Changing Asia: Women in Emerging Civil Societies |
One of the Asian Perspectives Seminar Series
(Sept. 1998; PDF format) |
| Deconstructing
the Visual: The Diasporic Hybridity of Asian and Eurasian Female
Images |
Julie Matthews's paper in Intersections:
Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context (Issue 8,
Oct. 2002) |
| EC/UNFPA
Initiative for Reproductive Health in Asia |
Created by the European Commission & the
United Nations Population Fund "to bring reproductive health
services within reach of populations in South & South-East Asia
that are thus far not or under-served" |
 Eldis
Gender Resource Guide |
Compilation of news, research papers & resources
on gender issues by the Eldis Gateway to Development Information,
with quick access to various subtopics such as education of women & violence
against women |
| Engendering
Development: Enhancing Development through Attention to Gender |
A World Bank report (May 2000) with policy
recommendations & statistical & data appendices (PDF format) |
| Factbook
on Global Sexual Exploitation |
Facts on trafficking, prostitution, & other
forms of sexual exploitation of women, compiled from news & official
sources by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women |
| Flying
High |
Asiaweek's coverage of women who "are
shaking up the way business is done in Asia" (7/13/2001) |
| Gender
in Development |
United Nations Development Programme's publications
on gender issues; Gender Beat, a quarterly review of projects and
activities around the world; related resources & tools |
| GenderNet |
"how [World] Bank seeks to reduce gender
disparities and enhance women's participation in economic development
through its programs and projects ... summarizes knowledge and experience,
provides gender statistics, and facilitates discussion on gender
and development" |
| Genderstats |
A database of gender statistics from the World
Bank: country-specific information & international comparisons |
| Global
Employment Trends for Women |
Sara Elder & Dorothea Schmidt's study with
tables & figures (International Labour Organization, Aug. 2004) |
| Global
Fund for Women |
"a grantmaking foundation that provides
flexible, timely assistance to grassroots women's groups around the
world" |
| Global
Reproductive Health Forum, Harvard University |
"aims to encourage the proliferation of
critical, democratic discussions about reproductive health, rights, & gender
on the net": "interactive electronic forums, global
discussions, distribut[ion of] reproductive health and rights materials
... extensive, up-to-date research library" |
| The
Impact of Social Institutions on the Economic Role of Women in
Developing Countries |
C. Morrisson & J. Jutting's paper measuring "the
impact of social institutions such as laws, codes of conducts, social
norms & traditions on the possibilities of women to participate
in economic activities" (OECD Development Centre, May 2004;
PDF format) |
| Isis
International-Manila |
"a feminist NGO dedicated to women's information & communication
needs [&] advancing women's rights, leadership & empowerment
in Asia & the Pacific" |
| The
Metropolitan Gaze: Travellers, Bodies And Spaces |
Vera Mackie's paper on tourism & sexuality
in Asia in Intersections (Issue 4, Sept., 2000) |
| Organizing
for Domestic Worker Rights in Southeast Asia: Feminist Responses
to Globalisation |
Lenore Lyons comparing NGOs advocating rights
of domestic workers in Singapore & Malaysia (Proceedings of the
15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia
in Canberra, 2004; PDF format) |
| Speaking
Menopause: Intersections Between Asian and Western Medical Discourses |
Chilla Bulbeck's paper in Intersections (Issue
5, May, 2001) |
| UNICEF & Beijing
+ 5 |
UNICEF's participation in the General Assembly
Special Session "Gender Equality, Development & Peace for
the Twenty First Century" (2000), & review & assessment
of progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for
Action adopted in 1995 at "The Fourth World Conference on Women" |
| Women
2000: Gender Equality, Development, & Peace for the 21st Century
(Beijing+5) |
United Nations Division for the Advancement
of Women's site on the Special Session of the General Assembly, June
5-9, 2000: press kit, documents, Webcasts, etc. |
| Women
Immigrants 1945 to the Present |
A bibliography of international literature
compiled by Eleanore O. Hofstetter: listings by author & title & by
category, & "a supplement and update of the publication, Women
in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary
Bibliography" |
| Women
In Action |
Online edition of Isis Manila's magazine, focusing
on women's issues such as "women & human rights" |
| Women in Global
Science & Technology (WIGSAT) |
Organization focusing on "research & advocacy
around critical gender, science & technology issues; information & communications
technology activities with global or South-based initiatives" |
| Women's
Empowerment: Measuring the Global Gender Gap |
World Economic Forum study measuring the degree
of gender of equality in all 30 OECD countries & 28 emerging
markets in 5 critical areas: economic participation; economic opportunity;
political empowerment; educational attainment; health and well-being
(2005; PDF format) |
| Women's
Human Rights Resources |
Listing by topic of articles, documents & links
by Bora Laskin Law Library (University of Toronto) |
| Women's
Issues: World Issues |
"information and resources about women's
issues, women's rights and the fight for freedom across the world" |
| World Abortion Policies
1999 |
UN Population Information Network's data
tables on abortion policies for regions & nations around the
world |
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