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General Resources for Asia

Rai, S.H., et al. 2006. ‘South Asia: gender quotas and the politics of empowerment – a comparative study’, in Dahlerup, D. (ed.) Women, Quotas and Politics, London/New York: Routledge, pp. 222-245.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2000. Human Development Report, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ballington, J. and Dahlerup, D. 2006. ‘Gender quotas in post-conflict states: East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq’, in Dahlerup, D. (ed.) Women, Quotas and Politics, London/New York: Routledge, pp. 249-258.
Abou-Zeid, G. 2006. ‘The Arab region: women’s access to the decision-making process across the Arab Nation’, in Dahlerup, D. (ed.) Women, Quotas and Politics, London/New York: Routledge, pp. 168-193.
Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI) 2004. Faces: Women as Partners in Peace and Security, New York: OSAGI.
Whittington, S. ‘UN Goals for Gender Mainstreaming’, paper presented at the conference: Women and Post-War Reconstruction: Strategies for Implementation of Democracy Building Policies, Florida International University, Miami, March 2004.
Ottaway, M. 2004. ‘Women’s Rights and Democracy in the Arab World’, Carnegie Papers Middle East Series, no. 42, Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace.
Khalil, A. 2004. ‘Women Call for Equal Representation’, Women’s E-News, 2 June.
Online. Available at: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1703/context/archive
United National Development Programme (UNDP) 2003. Arab Human Development
Report 2003.
Reilly, B. 2003. ‘International Electoral Assistance: A Review of Donor Activities and Lessons Learned’, Working Paper 17, The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’.
Chinkin, C. ‘Peace Agreements as a Means for Promoting Gender Equality and
Ensuring Participation of Women’, paper presented at UN Expert Group Meeting, Ottawa, November 2003.
Baviskar, B.S. 2002. ‘Including the Excluded, Empowering the Powerless’, Sociological bulletin, 51, 2: 168–74.
Rai, S.M. 2002. Gender and the Political Economy of Development, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Parpart, J.L., Rai, S.M. and Staudt, K.A. (eds) 2002. Rethinking Empowerment Gender and Development in a Global/Local World, London: Routledge.
World Fact Book. 2002. www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook
United National Development Programme (UNDP) 2002. Arab Human Development Report: Creating Opportunities of Future Generations.
Bayes, Jane H. & Nayereh Tohidi (eds). 2001. Globalization, Gender, and Religion. The Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan.
Joseph & Susan Slymovics. 2001. Women and Power in the Middle East. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania.
Rai, S.M. (ed.) 2000. International Perspectives on Gender and Democratisation, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Yuval-Davis, N. and Pnina, W. 1999. Women, Citizenship and Difference, London: Zed Books.
Kabeer, N. 1999. ‘Resources, Agency, Achievements: Reflections on the Measurement of Women’s Empowerment’, Development and Change, 30: 435–64.
Goetz, A. 1997. Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development, London: Zed Books.
Lister, R. 1997. Citizenship: Feminist Perspectives, London: Palgrave.
Young, M.I. 1997. ‘Unruly Categories: A Critique of Nancy Fraser’s Dual Systems Theory’, New Left Review, 222: 147–60.
Coole, D. 1996. ‘Is class a difference that makes a difference?’, Radical Philosophy, issue 77, May/June.
Kabeer, N. 1995. ‘Targeting women or transforming institutions? Policy lessons from NGO anti-poverty efforts’, Development and Practice, 5, 2: 108–16.
Fraser, N. 1995. ‘From Redistribution to Recognition? Dilemmas of Justice in a ‘Poststructuralist’ Age’, New Left Review, 212: 68–93.
Phillips, A. 1995. The Politics of Presence, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kabeer, N. 1994. Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, London: Verso.
Pathak, Z. and Sudarajan, R. 1992. ‘Shahbano’ in J. Butler and J.W. Scott (eds) Feminists Theorize the Political, London: Routledge.
Bystendinzky, J.M. (ed.) 1992. Women Transforming Politics: Worldwide Strategies for Empowerment, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) http://www.ipu.org/
Socialist International Women. ‘The Quota System. http://www.socintwomen.org.uk/QUOTA/QUOTAEng1.html
Online Women in Politics, www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org
Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), www.ipu.org
UNIFEM East and South East Asia, http://www.unifem-eseasia.org/
Arab Election Law, www.arabelectionlaw.net

Other Links

Inter-Parliamentary Union. http://www.ipu.org/

Inter-Parliamentary Union. “Women in Parliament in 2015: The year in review”: http://www.ipu.org/pdf/publications/WIP2015-e.pdf

Inter-Parliamentary Union. “Women in Parliament: 20 years in review”: http://www.ipu.org/pdf/publications/WIP20Y-en.pdf

Inter-Parliamentary Union. “Women in Parliaments: World and Regional Averages”: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm

Inter-Parliamentary Union. “Women in Parliaments: World Classification ”: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm

Women's Environment and Development Organization, www.wedo.org

Online Women in Politics, www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org

Note: The sources and additional reading indicated above are mostly only available in English. We welcome recommendations of additional sources in other languages.

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