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Women and the Law |
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- Legislation
- Australia
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- Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 (Cth)
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An Act to promote the principle that employment for women in Australia should be dealt with on the basis of merit; and to promote, amongst employers, the elimination of discrimination against, and the provision of equal opportunity for, women in relation to employment ...
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- Commonwealth
- Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (CTH)
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The Sex Discrimination Act is an act relating to discrimination on the ground of sex, marital status, pregnancy, potential pregnancy or family responsibilities or involving sexual harassment. The Act recognises the need to prohibit, so far as is possible, discrimination ...
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- Australian Capital Territory
- Discrimination Act 1991 (ACT)
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The Discrimination Act from the Australian Capital Territory has as its objective to (a) eliminate, so far as possible, discrimination in the areas of work, education, access to premises, the provision of goods, services, facilities and accommodation and the activities of ...
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- New South Wales
- Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)
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An Act to render unlawful racial, sex and other types of discrimination in certain circumstances and to promote equality of opportunity between all persons.
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- Queensland
- Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (QLD)
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An Act to promote equality of opportunity for everyone by protecting them from unfair discrimination in certain areas of activity and from sexual harassment and certain associated objectionable conduct.
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- South Australia
- Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (SA)
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An Act to promote equality of opportunity between the citizens of South Australia; to prevent certain kinds of discrimination based on sex, sexuality, marital status, pregnancy, race, physical or intellectual impairment or age; and to facilitate the participation of citizens ...
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- Tasmania
- Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (TAS)
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An Act to prohibit discrimination and other specified conduct and to provide for the investigation and conciliation of, and inquiry into, complaints in relation to such discrimination and conduct
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- Victoria
- Equal Opportunity Act 1995 (VIC)
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The purposes of this Act are:to re-enact and extend the law relating to equal opportunity and discrimination in Victoria; to remove compulsory retirement provisions from Victorian Acts; to repeal the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 and make consequential amendments to other Acts; ...
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- United States
- Feminist jurisprudence: 19th Amendment , 14th Amendment, Proposed Equal Rights Amendment (not ratified)
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Amendments to the US Constitution. Amendment XIX: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Amendment XIV: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to ...
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- Courts & tribunals and their decisions
- Canada
- CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute
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CanLII provides free worldwide access to Canadian primary legal materials
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- United Kingdom
- British and Irish Legal Information Institute
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Access to Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information, including full text of cases
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- United States
- Legal Information Institute: Supreme Court collection: historic decisions on gender
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Historic landmark United States Supreme Court decisions on gender from 1875 to 1990
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- Legal Information Institute: Supreme Court collection: syllabi
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Summaries of Decisions on women's rights from the U.S. Supreme Court, since 1990. Enter keywords into search bar to retrieve cases.
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Organisations
- Australia
- Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse
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The Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse is a national resource on issues of domestic violence and family violence. Its issues papers are available in fulltext pdf from this page.
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- Australian Institute of Family Studies
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Objectives of the Institute are: To promote by the conduct and encouragement of fundamental and applied research, understanding of the social and economic factors influencing the capacity of Australian families to function effectively; To inform governments and other ...
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- Australian Women Lawyers
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Australian Women Lawyers is the peak body of women legal practitioners' associations across Australia. AWL is concerned with issues relating to the practice and advancement of women in the legal profession and with a wide range of legal, social justice and equity issues ...
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- GayLawNet
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GayLawNet is dedicated to providing general information and resources concerning the law as it affects the global gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersex (GLBTI) community and the simplest access to a gay or lesbian (or gay or lesbian-friendly) lawyer. The ...
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- National Womens Justice Coalition
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The NWJC is a coalition of organisations and individuals which aims to promote women's equality before the law in Australia. The NWJC aims to promote women's equality before the law by working at a national level and focusing on: raising awareness of issues relating to ...
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- Womens Electoral Lobby (WEL) Australia Inc
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WEL is a feminist political organisation founded in 1972 as a women's political lobby. WEL is non-sectarian and non-party-political and all political views are found within the membership. It is the national lobby organisation for all Australian women. WEL is committed to ...
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- Womens Rights Action Network Australia
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WRANA is a feminist human rights organisation working with women in our community to achieve change in our lives. Current and past projects are listed, such as refugees, violence against women,and anti-terrorism laws.
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- New South Wales
- DVLink
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DVlink is an information and resources portal for people working with people affected by domestic violence in New South Wales, Australia.
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- Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
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The GLRL is active in NSW in campaigning for legislative change and fighting discrimination against lesbians and gay men in a variety of areas. Information includes updates on the Anti-Violence Project, Legal Advice Service and upcoming legislation on age of consent and ...
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Canada
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
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The CFLS at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver maintains a webpage containing a newsletter, lists of relevant publications and links to web resources relevant to feminism and the law.
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International
- Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
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The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) is a non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and defending women’s reproductive rights worldwide. They must also secure women’s access to basic health services, including contraception, abortion, ...
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- Female Genital Mutilation Education and Networking Project
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The purpose of the FGM Education and Networking Project is the dissemination on-line and offline of material related to female genital mutilation, otherwise known as female circumcision. The Project seeks to form an online clearinghouse and a community for researchers, ...
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- Feminist Majority Foundation Online
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The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) was created to develop bold, new strategies and programs to advance women's equality, non-violence, economic development, and, most importantly, empowerment of women and girls in all sectors of society. All programs of the FMF endeavor ...
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- Gender in Development Programme
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The Gender Development Programme supports a broad range of activities on gender equality and the advancement of women at global, regional and national levels. It provides guidance on gender policy and programmes, advancing gender as a crosscutting theme in poverty, ...
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- International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
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Provides a 'world watch' of news on gay and lesbian human rights; and offers training, workshops, and other forms of information exchange, particularly for activists from the developing world. Informs and educates the general public, the media, and funders of human rights ...
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- International Labour Organization Gender Equality
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The promotion of justice and the improvement of working conditions of women and men have always been guiding principles of the ILO. The Bureau of Gender Equality examines and publishes information on the situation of women at work around the world, in terms of human rights ...
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- Women, Law & Development International
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WLDI empowers women to fight for women's rights. We are a a non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to the promotion and defense of women's rights globally. Our strength is our ability to conduct useful and applicable research, training, and advocacy to women's ...
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- Womens Environment and Development Organization
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WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all.
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United States
- National Center for Lesbian Rights
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NCLR is a US legal resource center with a primary commitment to advancing the rights and safety of lesbians and their families through a program of litigation, public policy advocacy, free legal advice and counseling, and public education.
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- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
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The NGLTF works to eliminate prejudice, violence and injustice against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people at the local, state and national level. Its publications are available here in pdf, including archives.
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- National Organization for Women
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NOW organizes crowds for protests on issues such as violence against women and abortion rights; helps elect record numbers of feminist women to Congress and to state legislatures from Maine to California; uses our U.S. Supreme Court victory to sue anti-abortion terrorists ...
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Organisations - Government
- Australia
- Commonwealth Office of the Status of Women
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OSW works towards gender mainstreaming and ensuring that government policies, services and initiatives are evaluated for the benefits they will provide to women, their impact on women and their accessibility by women. Issues include: Economic Security, Leadership and ...
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- Commonwealth
- Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
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The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission is a national independent statutory government body, established in 1986 by Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act (Cth). The federal Attorney General is the Minister responsible in Parliament for the Commission. ...
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- Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
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EOWA’s role is to administer the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999 (Commonwealth) and through education, assist organisations to achieve equal opportunity for women.
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- New South Wales
- New South Wales Anti-Discrimination Board
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The Anti-Discrimination Board was set up in 1977 to administer the Anti-Discrimination Act. Its website provides information on discrimination, complaints mechanism, statistics and educational resources on discrimination.
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- New South Wales Department for Women
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The Department for Women's focus is on women with limited access to social and economic resources, reflecting the Government’s commitment to social justice. Information includes a newsletter, publications and links to government and community resources for women.
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- Office of the Director of Equal Opportunity in Public Employment
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The ODEOPE website contains official information on women in the NSW public sector, including maternity leave, pay claims, networks, publications and statistics
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- Queensland
- Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland
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The Anti-Discrimination Commission Queensland administers the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (ADA). The ADA aims to promote equality of opportunity for everyone by protecting them from unfair discrimination in various areas of public life and from sexual harassment.
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- Queensland Government information for women and girls
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Contains government information on topics such as: Women and work, Education and training, Family, parenting and relationships, Women and leadership, Government boards, Register of Indigenous Women, Queensland Women's Roundtable, Health and wellbeing, Eating issues, violence ...
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- South Australia
- Equal Opportunity Commission of South Australia
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This site provides up to date and accurate information about Equal Opportunity and Human Rights laws and the work of the Equal Opportunity Commission of South Australia.
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- Office for Women, South Australia
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The Office for the Status of Women is the key source of women's policy advice in Government and reports directly to the Minister for the Status of Women. The Office provides an enabling mechanism for whole of government consultation and coordination of strategies to improve ...
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- Tasmania
- Office of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Tasmania
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The Office of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Tasmania was established by Tasmanian Parliament on 10 December 1999. The Commissioner administers the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act 1998. The Office of the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner has the following objectives: ...
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- Women Tasmania
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The purpose of Women Tasmania is to: develop policies and programs that respond appropriately and effectively to the particular needs of women in Tasmania; offer policy advice to the Government on issues relating to women; improve women's access to information and ...
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- Victoria
- Victorian Office of Womens Policy
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The Office of Women's Policy, located in the Department for Victorian Communities, provides strategic policy advice to the Victorian Government on issues of concern to women. It coordinates and monitors government policies and programs that impact on women and their ...
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- Western Australia
- Western Australia. Office for Women's Policy
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The Office for Women's Policy advises the Minister for Women's Interests on matters affecting the status of women. assists Government agencies to improve their services to women. helps link Government and women's organisations in the community so that Government is better ...
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Statistics
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- GenderStats
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GenderStats is an electronic database of gender statistics and indicators designed with user-friendly, menu-driven features. It offers statistical and other data in modules on several subjects. The data in each module is presented in ready-to-use format. Users have the ...
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- United States
- General Social Survey Codebook
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The GSS (General Social Survey) has results of personal surveys of US households on many topics, including gender roles and social opinions.
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Publications
Canada
- Status of Women Canada publications
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Publications available in HTML and pdf, on various women's issues in Canada. Includes Gender-based analysis, Recognition of lesbian couples
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International
- Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives: introduction by Mai Yamani
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Text of the introduction by Mai Yamani to the edited collection of papers on women in the Islamic religion,called Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives
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- Feminist jurisprudence: equal rights, or neo-paternalism?
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Cato Policy Analysis No. 256. Feminist activism has also had a major impact on many areas of the law, including rape, self-defense, domestic violence, and such new legal categories as sexual harassment. However, the ideology of legal feminism today goes far beyond the ...
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- Gender Issues in Labour Legislation, Labour Management Relations and Remuneration
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Recommendations regarding gender issues in legislation, remuneration and collective labour issues for member States of the ILO
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- International Institute for the Sociology of Law
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Searchable database of inernational journal abstracts. The IISL's Library and Centre of Documentation's databases, specializing in the sociology of law, contain bibliographical references to books, journal articles and unpublished materials.
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- Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 4-15 September 1995)
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Report of the 4th World Conference on Women held in Beijing, including Resolutions Adopted by the Conference
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Papua New Guinea
- Women in transition: social control in Papua New Guinea
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Women in Transition discusses the social control of women in a changing Papua New Guinea society. How the legal system treats women in Papua New Guinea, and the effects of the social control system on the status of women are issues that she discusses at length.
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International resources
- International
- Center for Reproductive Rights
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A non-profit legal advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and defending women’s reproductive rights worldwide. Website includes fulltext reports, articles and fact sheets.
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- e.quality@work
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An ILO information base on Equal Employment Opportunities for Women and Men, searchable by country and including ILO, UN and EU documents.
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- Guide to the International Women's Human Rights Movement, 1995 to present
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Links to worldwide resources in womens' human rights, including database of organisations
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- Interaction's Commission on the Advancement of Women
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As mandated, the CAW promotes gender equity in the policy and practice of InterAction members, national, and international development and humanitarian assistance organizations. In addition, the CAW works with other US and international NGO networks to promote implementation ...
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- International Womens Rights Action Watch
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IWRAW is an international resource and communications center that serves activists, scholars, and organizations that focus on the advancement of women's human rights. It provides technical assistance and research support for women's human rights projects such as law reform, ...
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- The Human Rights Watch global report on womens rights
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This report is a compilation of investigations by Human Rights Watch from 1990 to 1995 on women's human rights violations in many countries.
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- United Nations and the Status of Women
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Contains links to the different organs of the United Nations that work with women, under the headings: UN Actions for Women ; conventions on gender issues; UN Committees; The Commission on the Status of Women; Women in development
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- Women Watch: the UN working for women
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WomenWatch is a joint UN project to create a core Internet space on global women's issues. It was created to monitor the results of the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995. It was founded in March 1997 by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), ...
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- Womens Human Rights Resources
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The purpose of the Women's Human Rights Resources Web Site is to provide reliable and diverse information on international women's human rights via the Internet. Includes Fact sheets, research guides, hot topics and a case collection. Also citations to scholarly writing, ...
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- Womens' human rights resources
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Diverse, quality information on women's international human rights law. Each subject is divided into: Articles: annotated bibliographic references to scholarly articles with links to full text where available Documents: annotated references to conventions and UN Reports, NGO ...
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Other indexes/links
International
- Sexuality, Gender, and the Law
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Links and references to publications on sexuality, gender and the law, in many different countries
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- Women and the law
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WorldLII's subject Women and The Law is a database of links which can be searched or browsed. Headings include Inter-Government Organisations
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- Women, Gender and Law
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Index of links to worldwide online resources on women, gender and the law. 'A catalog of catalogs'
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Conferences
Educational
International
- Gender and the Law
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Syllabus and lecturer's notes over 15 web pages for the Gender and the Law course at Dayton University. The course explores legal rules and practices that make classifications both on an individual's sex (whether one is a man or woman) and also on the social consequences of ...
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Journals
- Australia
- Outskirts
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Outskirts is a feminist, cultural studies journal published twice yearly at this site in May and November. It contains articles on many themes, including legislation affecting women.
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- New South Wales
- Violence Against Women Specialist Unit Bulletin Index
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This bulletin is for anyone interested in the issue of violence against women and is intended to inform people about the NSW Strategy To Reduce Violence Against Women and its implementation.
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International
- American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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The American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law was founded in 1992 to provide a forum for those interested in gender issues and feminist legal studies. It publishes papers addressing social and political equality under the law.
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- Columbia journal of gender and law
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Abstracts available since vol.1 1991. The CJGL is devoted to scholarship on the interaction between gender and law.
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- Duke journal of gender law and policy
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DJGLP is an interdisciplinary publication devoted to discussion and consideration of gender issues in the context of law and public policy. Fulltext articles in html and some back issues available.
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- E Law
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Refereed articles in all aspects of law, from 1993. Includes subject, author and title indexes.
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- Feminist legal studies
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Abstracts of articles , arranged alphabetically by author.
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- Gender policy review
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Gender Policy Review is a monthly magazine geared toward policy professionals and individuals interested in gender and international, development and domestic politics. Past and current issues available.
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- Hastings womens law journal
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Abstracts only. HWLJ provides a forum for voices outside the traditional scope of legal academic scholarship. It offers an inclusive space for feminism, race theory, multi-culturalism, animal rights, disability rights, language rights, international human rights, criminal ...
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- International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
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Abstracts available free, fulltext to subscribers. Analyses family law issues.
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- Web Journal of Current Legal Issues
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Published bi-monthly, The focus of the Journal is on current legal issues in judicial decisions, law reform, legislation, legal research, policy related socio-legal research, legal information, information technology and practice.
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Treaties and Conventions
- International
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
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Determined to implement the principles set forth in the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and, for that purpose, to adopt the measures required for the elimination of such discrimination in all its forms and manifestations, this is the ratified ...
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- Convention on the Political Rights of Women
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Convention aiming to equalize the status of men and women in the enjoyment and exercise of political rights, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
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- Convention on the Political Rights of Women
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Violence against women is an obstacle to the achievement of equality, development and peace, this declaration assists the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
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- Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
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Violence against women is an obstacle to the achievement of equality, development and peace, this declaration assists the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
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- Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
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Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict Proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 3318(XXIX) of 14 December 1974
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- Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
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Determined to implement the principles set forth in the Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and, for that purpose, to adopt the measures required for the elimination of such discrimination in all its forms and manifestations, this is the ratified ...
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