Breaking Barriers: Gender Perspectives and Empowerment of Women in LDCs (2006)

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:00:00 +0000

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Liberian women attend math and literacy class.

UN Photo/Christopher Herwig

The UN-OHRLLS is pleased to bring out this informative publication as an advocacy tool to draw the attention of the international community, including civil society and the private sector, to the state of human development in LDCs focussing on women and gender. It is a special effort to highlight gender issues as a very crucial element in the development efforts of LDCs.

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Brussels Programme of Action: Addressing the Special Needs of LDCs (2006)

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:53:00 +0000

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woman helps her child to wash hands before eating in a food distribution center in Sudan.

Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID

As we are heading for the High-level meeting on the midterm comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Brussels Programme in the sixty-first session of the General Assembly in September 2006 at the United Nations in New York it is worth to have a closer look at the achievements since the Third United Nations Conference and try to answer the following questions: to what extent the LDCs and development partners have achieved objectives, goals and targets of the Programme, what obstacles and challenges they are facing in its implementation, what lessons they have learned and whether there are good practices which have had a positive impact on reducing poverty and could be replicated elsewhere.