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BEST PRACTICES

Coming soon! These brief reports outline some of our best practices in working towards women's empowerment and gender equality.

1. Developing Women-led Business Cooperatives in DPR Korea

2. Using the Media to Promote Women in Politics in Cambodia

3. Engendering the UN Country Team in the Philippines

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BRIEFING KITS

These resource and advocacy kits are ideal for researchers, policy makers and others interested in an overview of how to develop rights-based gender programming and policies across a range of thematic areas. Some of the versions of these kits have been abbreviated or reformatted for the website - these will tell you if a more complete, printed version is available.

Please acknowledge UNIFEM as the source if you use any of this resource material.

• EVAW kit on A Life Free of Violence: It's Our Right!

• Joint UNIAP/UNIFEM kit on Trafficking in Persons: A Gender Rights Perspective.

• Briefing kit on Women in a Global Economy: challenge and opportunity in the current Asian economic crisis

• Combination country profile and resource kit 2000 Gender and Development - Facts and Figures in Thailand (May 2000) which provides both an analysis of the social, economic, political and cultural structure of the country from a gender perspective, and sources of gender-related information and key contacts in Thailand. (Produced in collaboration with UNDP Thailand)

• Briefing kit on Women, Gender and HIV/AIDS in East and Southeast Asia which provides an extensive view of the way in which gender interacts with the HIV/AIDS epidemic (May 2001).

FACT SHEETS ON GENDER ISSUES

Our fact sheets provide technical information on some key women's and gender issues. You can browse the on-line versions, or download the Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat versions (you will need the Adobe Acrobat viewer to see and print the latter) which use colour, have attractive layouts, and are suitable for handouts and so on.

Our technical papers are generally longer and more complex than other materials on our site. They are often taken from papers that we prepared for conferences, workshops and the like. You can browse the on-line version, or download (where available) the Adobe Acrobat version (you will need the Adobe Acrobat viewer to see and print the latter).

TECHNICAL PAPERS

You can print the technical papers from your Web browser, although formatting will not be as good as the Word and Acrobat versions. Alternatively, use File -> Save As to save a copy to your hard disk where it will have a "htm" or "html" extension: the later versions of Microsoft Word and WordPerfect will open the htm(l) file, then you can adjust margins, page breaks and other formatting if needed (be warned, this can take a lot of time!).

NEWSLETTER

The reports we receive from our web host confirm that the back copies of our newsletters remain popular, so popular that we still get the occasional complimentary email from persons reading our an old issue for the first time. For our current newsletter, see our new News from the Field page.

The archive contains newsletters for:

• January-February 1997

• March-April 1997

• May-June 1997

• Jul-Sep 1997

• Jan-Apr 1999

• May-Jul 1999

• Aug-Oct1999

• Nov99-Mar2000

• Jan2001

• May2001

• March2002

1998 CAMPAIGN ON ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

UNIFEM devoted 1998, the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to highlighting and promoting women's human rights and early in the year initiated a Global Campaign to eliminate violence against women. As part of the world-wide campaign, the East and South East Asia Regional Office promoted an effective and popular Asia-Pacific Campaign whose aim was to transform public attitudes, policies, practices and legislation to ensure a life free of violence for women and girls in the Asia-Pacific Region.

We have retained details of the Asia-Pacific Campaign to record the successful activities, and to preserve links to many organisations that are working in the VAW area.

THE BEIJING+5 REVIEW PROCESS

The Beijing+5 Review Process was an important lead-up to Women 2000. Our office worked with many partners to assist Asia Pacific women in this process, and the page will continue to be useful as a record of the many and varied activities that made the process and Women 2000 a success.