Resources: Representation
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Shaping the international agenda: Raising women's voices in intergovernmental forums
IGC & UN Women Book on women’s participation in national delegations to meetings of international organizations’ governing bodies.
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The front lines of gender inequality
McKinsey Quaterly Five Fifty: read a five minute briefing on gender equality, or dive deeper with additional fifty minutes worth of material on gender equality.
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UN System-wide Strategy on Gender Parity
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, launched a new strategy on gender parity. The strategy provides a roadmap to reach parity at the senior levels of leadership by 2021, and ultimately in 2028 across the board.
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30% Club
The 30% Club was created as a cross-business initiative aimed at achieving 30% women on UK corporate boards through voluntary, business-led change.
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Gender Parity: Research Updates
Resources from GQUAL's conference on gender parity research, with summaries of workshops, conclusions, and recommendations.
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UN Women: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
“Turning promises into action: Gender equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, UN Women’s new flagship report, provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of progress, gaps and challenges in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from a gender perspective. Read the summary.
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Achieving Gender Parity on International Judicial and Monitoring Bodies
This working paper identifies and analyzes complementary international human rights law standards pertinent to the GQUAL Declaration found in the UN Charter, selected international human rights treaties, UN resolutions, and policy
statements.
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European Court of Human Rights
The Committee on Equal Opportunities for Men and Women of the European Court of Human Rights issued this blistering dissent when the Court once again nominated mostly men for judicial candidacies and worded its nomination process in a way that implied female candidates were less qualified. The eloquent dissent is a great model for calling out sexism in both the culture and structure of an organization.
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Gender-Responsive Assemblies toolkit
The Gender-Responsive Assembly Toolkit is intended for all actors that drive change within organizations, including Director-/Secretary-Generals, Secretariats, Member States, civil society and staff to uphold common standards for gender-responsive assemblies by sharing current actions on agenda-setting, participation, governance, working environment, and decision-making.
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Guide pour une Assemblée prenant en compte l'égalité des sexes
Une liste de vérifications pour s'assurer qu'une Assemblée prenne en compte l'égalité des sexes.
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IPU strategies to advance gender equality in governance and delegations
A presentation that explores the Inter-Paliamentary Union's work to advance gender-responsive policies and institutions.
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Women in parliament: 1995–2020 - 25 years in review
This year’s report looks back at 25 years of women in parliament on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Beijing conference and its groundbreaking action plan for gender equality.