Resources and Publications
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Life Stories of the Indigenous Women and their Access to Justice
Law Reform Commission of Thailand
Through the support of the Government of Canada, UN Women in partnership with the Law Reform Commission of Thailand commissioned a research study on Indigenous Women’s Life Stories and their Access to Justice. The study analyses 5 selected tribal women’s groups in Thailand discriminated from traditional practices, public health services, nationality law and the system. The collection of life stories aimed to reflect and enhance awareness/understanding among line ministries, Council of State, Law Reform Commission of Thailand and CSOs – particularly women’s organization on tribal women’s struggle and their response to specific discrimination, their access to justice via formal, semi-formal and informal mechanisms. More...
Leaflet on global processes towards the achievement of gender equality (2014)
UN Women Cambodia
This leaflet contains infographics summarizing global processes towards the achievement of gender equality in Cambodia. More...
Women’s Economic Empowerment: Guidance Note (2014)
The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada (DFATD)
This guidance note has been developed to provide policy and programming guidance relating to women’s economic empowerment in Canada’s international development assistance in order to better address women’s economic empowerment in department- and program-level strategies; and identify and design appropriate women’s economic empowerment initiatives for Canada’s international development assistance.More...
UN Women Thailand
This study concluded that the promotion of gender equality and women’s access to justice required not only the enactment of new laws that were compliant with international standards such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) but that these laws should be implemented by a gender-sensitive administration of justice.More...
Handbook on Effective Prosecution Response to Violence against Women and Girls (2014)
United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Eileen Skinnider
Violence against women and girls is a widespread and serious violation of human rights that has severe physical, psychological, emotional and social consequences. The process of bringing a complaint into the criminal justice system can be a difficult and traumatizing experience for many victims for different reasons. More...
Strengthening Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Responses to Violence against Women (2014)
United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Eileen Skinnider
Violence against women and girls is a widespread and serious violation of human rights that has severe physical, psychological, emotional and social consequences. The process of bringing a complaint into the criminal justice system can be a difficult and traumatizing experience for many victims for different reasons. More...
Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Judicial stereotyping is a common and pernicious barrier to justice, particularly for women victims and survivors of violence. Such stereotyping causes judges to reach a view about cases based on preconceived beliefs, rather than relevant facts and actual enquiry. This can have potentially wide-ranging consequences. More...
DFATD Policy on Gender Equality (2014)
Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada
The report recognized the continuing relevance of DFATD's Policy on Gender Equality both within DFATD and in the development cooperation community. DFATD remains committed to creating, with our partners, a better world for all-a world where inequality on any grounds, be it gender, class, race or ethnicity, is finally overcome. More...
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