New Report:
A Rights-Based Approach to Realizing the Economic and Social Rights of Poor and Marginalized Women

This report presents a framework on a rights-based approach to development that focuses on accountability from the state and community, as opposed to a more traditional approach which tends to focus on charity and is based on a patron-client relationship. Drawing on findings from six ICRW-supported projects, this report distills essential steps to realizing a rights-based approach to development.

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Project Update: Reducing HIV/AIDS Through Women's Property Rights

Women own less than 15 percent of land worldwide. Without official title to land and property, women have fewer economic options and virtually no collateral for obtaining loans and credit.

In the context of HIV and AIDS, women's lack of ownership and control over such economic assets as housing and land can leave them destitute. This is especially true in communities where AIDS-related stigma is high and widows can become socially isolated.

Read more here.

 

Women and Trade

Poverty Reduction | ICRW Projects

Additional Resources

• Multilateral and Regional Organizations
• Networks and International Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
• Policy Research

Multilateral and Regional Organizations

World Bank

• http://econ.worldbank.org/resource.php?type=5
• http://www.worldbank.org/prospects/gep2004
• http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr/wdr2004/text-18786/
• http://info.worldbank.org/etools/bspan/EventView.asp?EID=601

Women, Health and Development Program (HDW), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

• http://www.paho.org/english/hdp/hdw/Abouthdw.htm
• http://www.paho.org/English/DPM/SHD/HP/trade-datab.htm (Database)
• http://www.paho.org/english/hdp/hdw/aboutgensalud.htm

World Health Organization

• http://www.who.int/trade/resource/en/GATSfoldout_e.pdf
• http://www.who.int/trade/resource/wtoagreements/en/
• http://www.who.int/trade/resource/THS/en/
• http://www.who.int/medicines/library/par/who-edm-par-2002-3/doha-implications.pdf
• http://www.who.int/trade/resource/tradewp/en/
• http://www.who.int/medicines/library/par/who-edm-par-2002-1/networktrips.pdf
• http://www.cmhealth.org/cmh_papers&reports.htm

Department of International Development (DFID)

• http://www.healthsystemsrc.org
• http://www.hlspinstitute.org/projects/?mode=type&listId=13828

International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

• http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-64305-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) and the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

• http://www.iprsonline.org/unctadictsd/description.htm

UNCTAD and the World Health Organization

• http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/1998/unctad_itcd_tsb_5_partI.pdf

Networks and International NGOs

Business for Social Responsibility

• http://www.bsr.org/BSRResources/ResourcesDocs/WomensHealth_Report.pdf

Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health

• http://www.cpath.org/CPATH_featured.html#

Consumer Project International (CPI)

• http://www.cptech.org/lists.html (listserve information)

The Women’s Health Project, at the School of Public Health University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

• http://www.wits.ac.za/whp/projects.htm
• http://www.wits.ac.za/whp/gender_form.htm

Gender and Health Equity Network (GHEN)

• http://www.ids.ac.uk/ghen/about/index.html
• http://www.ids.ac.uk/ghen/resources/index.html

International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN)

• http://www.genderandtrade.net/EconoLit/Literacy.html

Women’s Edge

• http://www.womensedge.org/pages/referencematerials/reference_material.jsp?id=184
• http://www.womensedge.org/pages/referencematerials/reference_material.jsp?id=149
• http://www.womensedge.org/documents/tradeimpactreviewfinal2003.pdf

Policy Research

Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)

• http://www.genderhealth.org/HealthSector.php?TOPIC=PRG

Center for Global Development

• http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/2785

Center for International Development, Harvard University

• http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidtrade/index.html

Center on International Cooperation (CIC), New York University

• http://www.nyu.edu/pages/cic/index2.html

Wellcome Trust, the Institute for Global Health at the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco, and the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (CMH): Global Health Forum II

• http://www.cmhealth.org/docs/wg2_meetingreport_dec2000.pdf