Women & Children

Children

• Universal children's Day 2004
• Statistics on Working Children and Hazardous Child Labour in Brief
• The Progress of Nations 2000 - Statistical profiles
  A summary of the year 2000 goals agreed to by almost all nations at the 1990 World Summit for Children.
• Facts and Figures 2000
• Human rights for children and women: How UNICEF helps make them a reality.
• Humanitarian Response to Children 1999

Reports

• National Children Policy
• The State of the world children
  • Sanitation for all
  • The State of the World's Children 2000
  • The State of the World's Children 1999
  • The State of the World's Children 1998
  • The State of the World's Children 1997
  • The State of the World's Children 1996

  Organizations

   

Women

Reports

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women CEDAW
• CEDAW Country Report, Bangladesh
• Gender Equality in Bangladesh According to MDGs Progress Report
• National Policy for the advancement of Women 1997
• Policy for the Widowed Women Endowment
• CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS SUBMITTED BY STATES PARTIES UNDER ARTICLE 18 OF THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN

Organizations

• Ministry of Women and Children Affairs
• WomenWatch
  Learn about the work of the United Nations entities and inter-governmental and treaty bodies that deal with the advancement and empowerment of women and about international instruments on women's rights. 
• National Organization for women 
  General information on action for women.
• Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) 
  WEDO increases women's visibility, roles and leadership in public policy-making through peace, gender, human rights, environmental and economic justice campaigns
• Women, Ink. 
  A project of the International Women's Tribune Center to market and distribute books on women and development in the Global South region
• Equality Now 
  An international human rights organization dedicated to action for the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women. Some of the many human rights issues of urgent concern include: rape, reproductive rights, trafficking, gender discrimination, domestic violence, political representation, female infanticide, sexual harassment, genital mutilation, and pornography.
• Center for Women's Global Leadership 
  Develops and facilitates women's global leadership toward women's human rights and social justice worldwide.
• Woman and Earth Global Eco-Network 
  The first NGO promoting women, human rights and development in the former Soviet Union, now serving as a bridge connecting the voices of Russian speaking women and ecology with women throughout the world. Bases in Russia, US, Turkey, Ghana, Fance, UK, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and representatives throughout the world.
• INSTRAW
  The United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, established in 1976 with the objective to promote gender equality and women's advancement worldwide through research, training and the collection and dissemination of information.

International Days

• International Women's Day 2006
• World Habitat Day "Women in Urban Governance"

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