Awareness-Raising Among Refugee and Migrant Women on How to Access Justice Services
This report offers lessons learned and best practices ton awareness-raising among refugee and migrant women on how to access justice services. More
- Gender equality and women’s empowerment (4)
- Economic empowerment (3)
- Beijing Platform for Action (3)
- Gender-responsive budgeting (3)
- 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (3)
- Macroeconomic policies (2)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (2)
- Beijing+20?! (2)
- Employment (2)
- Women’s rights (2)
- Migration (2)
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Sample survey on violence against women in Kazakhstan
Thursday, November 23, 2017
The Study approaches to understand the magnitude, causes and consequences of violence in a family in Kazakhstan.
Sexual harassment at workplace - Legal and policy challenges in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Report on legal and policy challenges of sexual harassment in the workplace and recommendations for improved legislation and practice in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Thursday, May 25, 2017
The Regional Advocacy Paper provides key policy recommendations that can help countries overcome the existing development bottlenecks and boost the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, leaving no one behind. It is intended to contribute to the development dialogue in the region on the need for integrated and coherent policies based on the principles of national ownership, whole-of-government and whole-ofsociety approaches, and will help accelerate SDG implementation in all countries of the region.
Friday, March 31, 2017
This policy brief highlights the need for publicly provided social care services for children, the sick, the elderly and persons with disabilities to reduce the burden of unpaid care work on women and advance women’s economic empowerment. It details the substantial advantages and returns countries stand to gain in the short and long run from such investments.
Handbook on Costing gender equality
Thursday, December 22, 2016
The handbook is designed to support governments, multilateral and bilateral organizations, civil society and others in costing gender equality outcomes, which responds to the growing global demand for concrete methodologies to estimate the financing gaps and requirements for achieving gender equality commitments.
The Status of Domestic Workers in Kazakhstan
Monday, March 28, 2016
This report on the status of domestic workers in Kazakhstan examines the policies and procedures of Kazakh domestic worker employment agencies and the gender mainstreaming and migration issues domestic workers face. Conducted as part of the second phase of the Regional Migration Programme implemented by the IOM, UN Women and the World Bank, the study recommends ways to improve the legislation and law enforcement practices governing Kazakhstan’s private employment agencies.
Friday, April 4, 2014
This conference report is a result of the Regional Consultations for Central Asia and South Caucasus on the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and presents summary of challenges and provides valuable recommendations.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
This gender-responsive budgeting knowledge package is the first comprehensive educational package in Russian to combine the theories and practices of gender-responsive budgeting exercises, particularly those conducted in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries from 2001 to 2013. Developed with UN Women support by the Gender-responsive Budgeting Regional Centre of Excellence for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the package includes a Resource Manual, Trainer Resource Pack, and Practice Book.
Global processes towards the achievement of gender equality
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Originally developed by UN Women Cambodia, this infographics leaflet simply and comprehensively provides the basics on fundamental women's rights documents such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), the global (post-2015 development agenda and the Commission on the Status of Women.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Intended for gender experts, governments and the public, Pathway to Gender Equality uses practical materials and identifies strategic entry points and specific ways in which the MDGs, CEDAW and BPfa correspond and support each other. After a preliminary mapping of gender equlality issues raised by each MDG, the book provides the corresponding obligations and commitments under CEDAW and BPfA, and outlines how the MDGs can be used to implement them.
20th year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in Central Asia
Saturday, January 25, 2014
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the 1995 4th World Conference on Women, which produced the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the most progressive blueprint ever for advancing women’s rights. In 2015 the Commission on the Status of Women will carry out a review and appraisal of the implementation of the BPfA and the outcomes of the 23rd Special Session of the General Assembly (2000).
Compendium of Gender Equality and HIV Indicators
Saturday, January 25, 2014
This compendium by “MEASURE Evaluation” presents gender-sensitive HIV-related indicators that can be used for a gender-balanced HIV response. The indicators aim to raise Central Asian stakeholders' awareness and understanding of the response to the HIV epidemic from a gender equality perspective. They can be used to monitor progress in eliminating gender-based inequalities in HIV responses and to evaluate programmes that address specific gender-equality HIV interventions.
Domestic Workers in Russia and Kazakhstan
Saturday, January 25, 2014
One of the first of its kind in Central Asia, this study by Moscow's Migration Research Centre assesses the needs and priorities of Central Asian and internal migrant domestic workers in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia and Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan. Its findings provide the basis for further work to improve the policies regulating domestic workers.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Despite international commitments, HIV-positive women's participation and voices are largely missing from decision-making in HIV and AIDS responses. The second in a series of resource guides dedicated to strategies that incorporate gender equality and women's rights into national HIV and AIDS responses, Transforming the National AIDS Response: Advancing Women's Leadership and Participation discusses ways to promote women's leadership and the meaningful participation of HIV-positive women in any AIDS response.
Gender on the Move: Working on the migration-development nexus from a gender perspective
Friday, January 25, 2013
Around the world, a record number of women are now migrating to seek work and better lives. For many, migration yields these benefits; for others, it carries dangerous risks, such as exploitation in domestic work, and vulnerability to violence.