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Today, claims for social justice seem to divide into two types: claims for the redistribution of resources and claims for the recognition of cultural difference. Increasingly, these two kind of claims are polarized against one another. As a result, we are asked to choose between class politics and identity politics, social democracy and multiculturalism, redistribution and recognition. These, h...

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Background: Empowerment of women is considered to be a critical developmental strategy. Objectives: Today, empowerment of women is not only a priority, but it also is an urgent need of women as a one of the most important populations considering their roles in the family and community. Social support and empowerment of women are regarded as an investment for future generations, which will resu...

After the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, United Nations (UN) created Women, Peace, and (WPS) mandate to promote gender equality enable women's full participation global security peacekeeping efforts. The aim this is ensure that women have equal access opportunities, resources, services, as well ability participate decision-making processes, order build maintain peace s...

Mainstreaming Gender Equality: Sida’s support for the promotion of gender equality in partner countries. Britha Mikkelsen, Ted Freeman, Bonnie Keller et al. Sida Evaluation 02/01. Background Equality between women and men has been on the agenda for development co-operation since the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, where a majority of the world’s states recognized that gender equality is not o...