Gender and the Millennium Development Goals

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Editor(s)
Sweetman, Caroline
Publication date
2005-01-01
Subject
Gender
Keywords
MDGs
Millenium Development Goals

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Publisher(s)
Oxfam GB
Series
Oxfam Focus on Gender
Document type
Book
Description
This collection of articles focuses on the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of this way of understanding and addressing poverty, and suggests ways of strengthening the approach by using key insights and approaches associated with the thirty-year struggle to establish and uphold the rights of women.
Table of contents
Editorial; Making the links: women's rights and empowerment are key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals; Gender equality and women's empowerment: a critical analysis of the third Millennium Development Goal; Where to for women's movements and the MDGs?; Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs; The education MDGs: achieving gender equality through curriculum and pedagogy change; Not a sufficient condition: the limited relevance of the gender MDG to women's progress; Out of the margins: the MDGs through a CEDAW lens; Linking women's human rights and the MDGs: an agenda for 2005 from the UK Gender and Development Network; Critiquing the MDGs from a Caribbean perspective; Resources
Pages
123
ISBN
978-0-85598-550-9
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/121130
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https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/gender-and-the-millennium-development-goals-121130
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