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This report has three aims: reviewing the ILO’s progress in assisting constituents to achieve gender equality in the world of work

The report assesses the progress made in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) based on new national data which was formulated after the first MDGR that was published in 2003.

هذا التقرير قائم على المسح العنقودي متعدد المؤشرات الذي أجرته إدارة الإحصاء المركزي في لبنان في العام 2009.

Ongoing violent conflicts accentuate the challenges that women and men face in the rural areas of Iraq, Lebanon, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

This paper applies a gender equality and workers’ rights perspective to the study of informal employment in the Arab region.

IFI Paper | January 2009 UNIFIL II: Emerging and Evolving European  Engagement in Lebanon and the Middle EastKarim Makdisi, Timur Göksel, Hans Bastian Hauck, and Stuart Reigeluth There has been a long-standing debate on the merits and drawbacks of UNIFIL, the UN “interim” peacekeeping operation established by UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions 425 and 426 in the aftermath of Israel’s 1978 invasion of Lebanon. Following the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War, this debate intensified as UNIFIL’s original mandate was made more “robust” by UNSC Resolution 1701, which marked a new phase of UN peacekeeping...

This essay proposes to re-orient feminist debates on epistemology towards the care-security nexus as a pathway that can plausibly provide an integral understanding of a human-centred and eco-minded security.

ان كتاب " العنف القانوني ضد المرأة في لبنان قوانين الأحوال الشخصية والعقوبات" هو عبارة عن ثلاثة دراسات قانونية تم تنفيذها من قبل باحثات قانونيات بالتعاون مع التجمع النسائي الديمقراطي اللبناني في اكتوبر 2008، و هدفها تسليط الضوء على مواضيع العنف ضد المرأة في قوانين الأحوال الشخ

منذ أجل طويل والجدل قائم حول موضوع تعرّض حقوق المرأة - الزوجية منها بشكل خاص - للانتهاك، بحيث انقسم المجتمع الدولي إلى معسكرين: أحدهما يعترف بوجود التمايز والانتهاكات على حساب النساء، والثاني ينفيه.

تم اعداد هذا الدليل من قبل منظمة رصد العمل الدولي من أجل حقوق المرأة لمنطقة اسيا و المحيط الهادئ، بدعم من المفوضية الاوروبية، وأصدرته جمعية كفى عنف و استغلال في آب 2008. يأتي هذا الدليل ضمن مشروع اقليمي متكامل سيتم تنفيذه بين عامي 2009 و 2011 في لبنان وسوريا والاردن.

This paper explores some faces of globalization by using a gender perspective, in order to consider reproduction (psychological and emotional as well as biological) and the activities and attitudes of care that give moral resources for response to systemic tragedy, not only fo

This report, compiled by Pernilla Ouis and Tove Myhrman, is a comparative situation analysis of honour violence, early marriages and sexual abuse in Lebanon, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Yemen.

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, the authors demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day -- the sum of work for pay and work at home.

This article examines various approaches to the development of social protection schemes for informal women workers and issues facing this process.

This resourse, assembled by Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR) - New Ways, is a compilation of texts written by Evelyne Accad, Pinar Ilkkaracan, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Dina Siddiqi and Zeina Zaatiri.

This article addresses the public policy concept of gender mainstreaming and the extent of its efficacy since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action (PfA) and the UN's adoption thereof in 1997.

This paper reviews what is known about more and less effective—or at least promising—approaches to prevent and respond to gender-based violence.

A detailed report on ANND’s participation in this forum that covered the issues of neoliberal globalization and human development, women’s rights, geopolitical changes, democracy and public freedoms, cultural dimensions, environment and sustainable development, migration and t

The study upon which this article is based analyzes the status of Arab women in general, gender relations in the Middle East, and the situation of Arab women with disabilities, based on available disability statistics from a few selected countries and the author's observations

This study, prepared by Dr. Ray Jureidini, identifies practices and patterns that are the key causes for women domestic migrant workers' vulnerability in Bahrain and provide alternative approaches for effective means for action.