Children, Youth and Gender

	Violence Against Women and Girls Violence against women and girls (VAW/G) has been raised as a critical issue to be addressed in the international arena. While many programmatic initiatives are or have taken place around the... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	Staying Behind When Husbands Move: Women’s Experiences in India and Bangladesh This publication from the research institute on Migration, Globalization and Poverty summarizes the effects of the temporary absence of migrant men on women’s livelihoods in rural West Bengal, India, and... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	Factsheet: UN Women Watch This factsheet prepared by UN WomenWatch, focuses on gender perspectives of climate change. It features the work of the entire UN system on gender equality and climate change and provides... read more Posted on 11-18-2009

	Girl's Education in the 21st Century This publication discusses gender equality as a development issue. It argues that women’s economic empowerment is essential for economic development, growth, and poverty reduction not because of the income it... read more Posted on 11-17-2009

	The Feminization of HIV/AIDS The 'feminization' of HIV/AIDS poses a multidimensional health and humanitarian crisis, which could impact human development and economic growth. The global HIV/AIDS pandemic highlights the importance of targeted health policies... read more Posted on 11-15-2009

	Improving the Child Welfare Workforce Children’s Rights, in partnership with the National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) conducted a study of efforts to improve the child welfare workforce in the context of class action litigation... read more Posted on 11-20-2009

	UNICEF's State of the World's Children Report - 2008 UNICEF's report on The State of the World’s Children 2008 provides a wide-ranging assessment of the current state of child survival and primary health care for mothers, newborns and children.... read more Posted on 12-04-2008

	Notes on Social Insurance and Protection Policies for Children, Women and Families What is social protection and why is it particularly important for children and families? What types of social protection policies are currently in place around the world? Are conditional and... read more Posted on 10-06-2008

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The Feminization of HIV/AIDS
The 'feminization' of HIV/AIDS poses a multidimensional health and humanitarian crisis, which could impact human development and economic growth. The global HIV/AIDS pandemic highlights the importance of targeted health policies and program that address the needs of women and girls....

Girl's Education in the 21st Century

This publication discusses gender equality as a development issue. It argues that women’s economic empowerment is essential for economic development, growth, and poverty reduction not because of the income it generates, but because it helps to break the poverty...

The Girl Effect: Why Invest in Adolescent Girls?
The Girl Effect

The girl effect is a project that advocates for investments in adolescent girls on order to break the cycles of poverty that entrap families, societies and communities around the world. It argues that young girls are...