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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

International Conventions or Treaties
January, 1979
Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, Canada, United States of America, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China, Japan, Mongolia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, Croatia, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Cook Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga
Land & Gender
gender equity in access to land
land rights
advocacy
farmers
women
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) - currently ratified by 187 countries - is the only human rights treaty that deals specifically with rural women (Art. 14). Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations Generally Assembly, entered into force in 1981. The Convention defines discrimination against women as follows:
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Environment and Gender Index Includes Women’s Property Rights

March, 2014
Mozambique, Poland
property rights
property
environment
women
A guest post by Nayna J Jhaveri, Ph.D., Resource Tenure Specialist, Tetra Tech
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2012 Global food policy report

Peer-reviewed publication
Journal Articles & Books
December, 2013
Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Africa, Northern America, Brazil, China, India, United States of America, Europe
Land & Food Security
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
food security
land policies
agriculture
women
agricultural and rural legislation
farmers
land governance
climate change
environment
rural development
sustainable development
natural disasters
sustainable land management
youth
property rights
land rights
land acquisitions
land degradation
This 2012 Global Food Policy Report is the second in an annual series that provides an in-depth look at major food policy developments and events. Initiated in response to resurgent interest in food security, the series offers a yearly overview of the food policy developments that have contributed to or hindered progress in food and nutrition security. It reviews what happened in food policy and why, examines key challenges and opportunities, shares new evidence and knowledge, and highlights emerging issues.
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Country Partnership Framework for Montenegro for the Period FY16-FY20

June, 2016
Montenegro
Land & Corruption
corruption
sustainable development
climate change
urban areas
property
environment
land
women
The Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
for Montene gro covers the period from July 1, 2015 to June
30, 2020 (fiscal years 2016-2020). This CPF builds on the
results and lessons of the previous World Bank Group (WBG)
Country Partnership Strategy (CPS), which originally covered
the period July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014, and was
subsequently extended to June 30, 2015.The one-year CPS)
extension was intended to provide greater clarity on the
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Gender, Mobility, and Middle Class in Europe and Central Asia

November, 2015
Asia, Central Asia, Europe
Land & Corruption
corruption
property
women
New qualitative fieldwork in eight
countries of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) indicates that
the dramatic declines in poverty in much of the region over
the last decade do not appear to be registering very
favorably with men and women on the ground. This paper
provides a gender analysis of findings from equal numbers of
sex-specific focus groups with employed and jobless
individuals. The methodology featured a standardized package
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Bosnia and Herzegovina

August, 2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Urban Tenure
capacity development
land ownership
urbanization
urban areas
rural areas
women
This assessment presents a broad picture
of the main gender disparities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(BiH) in endowments, economic opportunities, and agency. The
report builds on the framework of the 2012 World Bank World
Development Report 2012 on gender and development and the
World Bank’s regional gender report on Europe and Central
Asia: opportunities for men and women, that focuses on the
household and individual members’ bargaining power and their
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Country Partnership Framework for Bulgaria for the Period FY17-FY22

July, 2016
Bulgaria
property rights
sustainable development
forestry
climate change
urban areas
property
environment
fisheries
land
women
This program document presents the World
Bank Group (WBG) FY17-22 Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
for Bulgaria. The timing of the new CPF follows the
preparation of theSystematic Country Diagnostic (SCD)
prepared in FY15, and informs the areas and objectives ofthe
CPF in support of the WBG’s twin goals to reduce poverty and
boost shared prosperity1 for the bottom forty percent of the
population. The CPF proposes to focus WBG support in
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Sweden's Business Climate

December, 2015
Sweden
property rights
forestry
land use
property
environment
land
women
This report’s starting point is thus to
acknowledge that despite Sweden’s many virtues, there are
areas in which it can do better, and the task has been to
identify those areas, focusing particularly on the quality
of the investment climate and competitiveness. This has been
done in two main ways. First, by looking at areas of the
business environment captured by databases compiled in the
World Bank Group’s Global Indicators Group—Doing Business,
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Las mujeres en el mercado. Un manual para la alfabetización popular en economía

Reports & Research
December, 1999
Spain
Land & Gender
women
Este manual trata de hacer comprensible la economía nacional, regional y global para desvelar las causas estructurales de los problemas económicos y sociales. En principio está diseñado para grupos de mujeres que compartirán y aprenderán de las demás con una facilitadora combinando aspectos diferentes del documento según sus necesidades, intereses y contextos nacionales. El análisis de género y metodologías de la educación popular se combinan para reflexionar sobre una realidad y avanzar hacia la búsqueda de alternativas y oportunidades estratégicas.
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Non-thematic issue

Journal Articles & Books
December, 1999
Australia, Madagascar, Italy, Oceania
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
farming systems
land use
nature reserves
deforestation
water management
natural disasters
poverty
natural resources management
landowners
land ownership
women
This issue of Unasylva contains, as promised in the previous edition, additional articles on sustainable mountain development. These articles help to complete the focus on the topic and should also help to promote interest in the recently declared International Year of the Mountain (2000) for which FAO has been designated lead agency status within the United Nations system.