Publications

Gender and the Millennium Development Goals: 2000-2015. 2010: Where do we stand?

To mark the United Nations Summit in New York to evaluate the Millennium Development Goals, which is to be held from 20 to 22 September 2010, the Commission on Women and Development has carried out a study on mainstreaming gender in each of the eight goals. 

Most of the 1.5 billion people living on less than 1 dollar a day are women, and the gap between women and men mired in poverty has continued to widen over the past decade. A new term, "the feminisation of poverty" has been coined to describe this phenomenon. Women earn, on average, just half of what men earn, the result of enduring gender inequalities.  Women suffer multiple discrimination and may be deprived of their rights, both because of their gender and because they belong to marginalised groups. Poor women also suffer discrimination simply because they are poor, potentially depriving them of access to justice, protection or services. In some countries, discrimination against women is enshrined in law; in many others, it persists despite equality legislation. 

The Millennium Development Goals cannot be achieved unless the fundamental rights of women are respected and gender is included at all levels and across the board.

The Commission on Women and Development has produced an analysis and progress report in the form of an interim evaluation calling for ongoing monitoring in this area. It has been drawn up with reference to the document “Women beyond Millennium Goals“, also produced by the Commission on Women and Development in 2005.

Women beyond Millennium Goals (PDF, 2.93 MB) (April 2005)
Gender and the Millennium Development Goals: 2000-2015. 2010: Where do we stand? (PDF, 541.98 Kb)

Memorandum

• Memorandum - Gender Integration (PDF, 122.51 Kb)

15-year information sheets

• Presentation of the CWD (PDF, 73.7 Kb) (in French)
• Composition of the CWD (PDF, 56.56 Kb) (in French)
• Publications of the CWD (PDF, 43.24 Kb) (in French)
• Working groups of the CWD (PDF, 51.04 Kb) (in French)
• Terminology (PDF, 47.71 Kb) (in French)
• Legal and strategic instruments (PDF, 54.17 Kb) (in French)
• Gender and mainstreaming (PDF, 51.66 Kb) (in French)
• International conferences (PDF, 70.98 Kb) (in French)
• Gender and empowerment indicators (PDF, 55.77 Kb) (in French)
• Gender and research (PDF, 50.91 Kb) (in French)
• Health, sexual and reproductive rights & female genital mutilation (PDF, 71.63 Kb) (in French)
• Gender, conflicts and consolidating peace (PDF, 72.36 Kb) (in French)
• Gender and poverty (PDF, 74.01 Kb) (in French)
• Gender and economy (PDF, 74.96 Kb) (in French)
• Gender and durable development (PDF, 70.71 Kb) (in French)
• Gender and education (PDF, 74.96 Kb) (in French)

Financing for development and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

• Gender and the Millennium Development Goals: 2000-2015. 2010: Where do we stand? (PDF, 541.98 Kb)
• The Doha Summit on the Review of the Monterrey Consensus. Going beyond the status quo to meet systemic challenges and move towards equality of women and men (PDF, 480.95 Kb)
• Brochure "Women go beyond the Millennium Goals" (PDF, 2.93 MB) (April 2005)
• Proceedings of the international conference "Women go beyond the Millennium Goals" (PDF, 9.31 MB) (10 October 2003)
• The impact of GATS on gender relations (PDF, 98.28 Kb) (February 2003) (in French)

Follow-up to Belgium's international commitments

• Beijing +15: political challenges and recommendations (PDF, 359.16 Kb)

Sexual health, reproductive rights and female genital mutilation

• Gender and sexual and reproductive rights of women: where do we stand today? (PDF, 1.46 MB)
• Género, derechos sexuales y reproductivos de las mujeres: ¿cuál es la situación actual? (PDF, 1.48 MB)
• Sexual and reproductive rights and gender - status report (PDF, 1.09 MB) (May 2008) (in French)
• Women of the South on the move - no progress is possible without access to healthcare and respect of sexual and reproductive rights (PDF, 607.95 Kb) (Proceedings of the debate held by the World March of Women, Confêttia, Brussels, 16 October 2005, in French)
• Fighting FGM (PDF, 221.96 Kb) (notes on the presentation given by Behane Ras-Work at the CWD's plenary session of 26 January 2006 - in French)
• Proceedings of the international conference "JAMMU: better health for young girls" (20, 21 and 22 November 2003) (PDF, 1.43 MB)
• Resolution of 22 November 2003 on female genital mutilation (PDF, 77.83 Kb) (November 2003 - in French)

Empowerment indicators

• Access to and control of resources by women (PDF, 2.41 MB) (2012)
• Access to and control of resources by women - Recommendations (PDF, 747.74 Kb) (October 2010)
• El acceso y el control de los recursos por parte de las mujeres - Recomendaciones (PDF, 757.43 Kb) (octubre 2010)
• The women empowerment approach (PDF, 1.08 MB) (September 2007)

Women, war and peace

• Proceedings of the conference "Women, war and peace" (PDF, 3.2 MB) (September 2004) (in French)
• Proceedings of the conference "Children at war" (PDF, 533.17 Kb) (1 October 2002 - in French)

Economy and development

• Evolutions in development thinking and policy. New opportunities for gender equality?! PRSP and SWAPs from a gender perspective (PDF, 1.19 MB) (2007)
• New support methods from a gender perspective (PDF, 179.27 Kb) (2007 - in Dutch)

Education

Conference “From Beijing to the Millennium Development Goals – girls and women on the way to education” 23 May 2006 at Egmont Palace (Brussels)

• Introductory speech (PDF, 67.13 Kb) (in French)
• Education for women and girls: progress and deterioration throughout the world (PDF, 451.8 Kb) (in French)
• Belgian development cooperation and education for women and girls (PDF, 167.77 Kb) (in French)
• Positive strategies and practices in the field (PDF, 150.67 Kb) (in French)
• Workshop 1: Training and educating women and girls – what should they be trained in and why? 
  • Skills development & gender (PDF, 405.57 Kb) (in French)  
  • Workshop report (PDF, 42.96 Kb) (in French)
• Workshop 2: Issues and stakeholders in girls' education in DR Congo
  • Issues in girls' education in the Democratic Republic of Congo (PDF, 152.86 Kb) (in French)
• Workshop 3: Keeping girls in school 
  • Keeping girls in school (PDF, 220.97 Kb) (in French)
  • Workshop report (PDF, 49.54 Kb) (in French)
• Workshop 4: Education policy and funding in the South 
  • Education policy and funding in the South (PDF, 196.9 Kb) (in French)
  • Workshop report (PDF, 26.9 Kb) (in French)
• Closing speech (PDF, 81.96 Kb)  (in French)

Women's parliament

• Proceedings of the Women's Parliament session (7 March 2003) (PDF, 950.95 Kb) (in French)

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