Research & Publications: Women's rights

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Within our reach – gender equality and women’s empowerment post 2015

Gender inequality is a global challenge of huge proportions. Around the world the prospects and life chances of millions of women and girls are stunted because of widespread discrimination and inequalities based on gender.

By ActionAid
24/04/2013 389.15 KB pdf

Women and the City

ActionAid is working in different countries to make cities safe for women and girls through its Safe Cities Initiative.This initiative is founded on the concept of right to the city.

The right to the city is the right of all city inhabitants, especially poor people, to have equitable access to all that a city has to offer and also to have the right to change their city in ways that they see fit.

By ActionAid
21/02/2013 3.09 MB pdf

Women and economic transformation post 2015

Putting women at the centre of the post 2015 economic transformation agenda

By Clare Coffey
13/02/2013 158 KB pdf

A Theory of Change for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls

A Theory of Change for Tackling Violence
Against Women and Girls

By ActionAid UK
29/10/2012 339.33 KB pdf

Afghan women’s rights on the brink

By ActionAid
03/07/2012 193.28 KB pdf

Sex, choice and control: the reality of family planning for women and girls today

To choose when and whether she has children is a fundamental right belonging to all the world’s women. Despite this, even conservative estimates acknowledge
that at least 200 million women are denied this right and do not currently have access to the family planning information and services they want and need.

By ActionAid
21/06/2012 986.56 KB pdf

Bonn and Beyond: Negotiating the future of women’s rights in Afghanistan

Ten years on from the military intervention, the international community will gather on 5 December 2011 in Bonn, Germany for a high-level conference on the future of Afghanistan. The stakes for Afghan women could not be higher.

By ActionAid UK
25/11/2011 90.9 KB pdf

A just peace

Embargoed

By ActionAid
27/09/2011 834 KB pdf

Violence Against Women and Girls: Your Questions, Our Answers

Overview and explanation of the issues surrounding violence against women and girls around the world.

By Gender & Development Network
18/01/2011 1.48 MB pdf

Destined to Fail: How Violence Against Women is undoing development

Destined to Fail: How Violence Against Women is undoing development

By ActionAid
26/02/2010 1.48 MB pdf

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