Useful ressources and links

Websites- web links

1. United Nations Women Watch
2. Inter-Parliamentary Union
   Women in Politics
3. www.ipu.org/iss-e/women.htm
   Women's representation in parliaments
4. Women's Human Rights Resources
   International human rights for women
5. Cool Plane
   Incorporating "global citizenship" and social justice into formal education

Resources

1. BRIDGE, Instituted of Development Studies
   University of Sussex, United Kingdom - Resources on gender, development, and citizenship
2. "Women in Contemporary Democratization" (2000)
   Shahra Razavi, Occasional Paper No. 4, Geneva: UNRISD
   UNRISD is an autonomous United Nations agency that carries out research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development.
3. Women's Political Participation and Good Governance: 21st Century Challenges (2000) UNDP
   Information on gender and governance, includes case studies on India's local-government quotas for women, the gender budget in South Africa, Uganda's women's caucus, and campaigns to end violence against women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
4. UNDP Gender in Development Programme: Monograph Series
   Gender and governance
5. Gender and Citizenship Initiative – UNDP POGAR
   Aims to encourage policy debates and dialogue on women's citizenship in selected Arab countries, raise awareness of gender inequalities in legislation, build the capacity of Arab women's NGOs to lobby for policy changes, and build partnerships between women's NGOs and parliamentarians.
6. Women are Citizens Too:  The Laws of the State, the Lives of Women (2002)
   Nadia Hijab, Regional Bureau for Arab States, UNDP
   Family laws, social protection laws, nationality, and election laws and their impact on the relationship between women and citizenship in the Arab state