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Goal 1
Eradicate Extreme
Poverty

Goal 3
Gender Equality
Empower Women

Introductory Material

United Nations Development Programme

- The Human Development Report 2003 - The Millennium Development Goals:
A Compact Among Nations to End Human Poverty (2003)
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United Nations Millennium Research Project

- Background Paper - Education and Gender Equality (2003)
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World Bank Group

- Gender Equality -- Information Page
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Research & Publications

Asian Development Bank

- Gender and the MDGs (February 2004)
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Commonwealth Secretariat, International Development Research Centre (Canada) and
Canadian International Development Agency

- Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals (2003)
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Gender and Development Network

- Gender, the Millennium Development Goals, and Human Rights in the Context of the 2005 Review Process (October 2004)
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ID21

- Are Global Goals Getting Girls into School? (April 2004)
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Joint Inspection Unit (Independent external oversight body of the UN system)

- Achieving the Universal Primary Education Goal of the Millennium Declaration: New Challenges for Development Cooperation (2003)
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National Council for Research on Women

- The Millennium Development Goals: Gendered Pathways/Dimensions (May 2002)
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United Nations Development Fund for Children -- UNICEF

- Accelerating Progress in Girls' Education (2002)
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United Nations Development Fund for Women -- UNIFEM

- Pathway to Gender Equality (November 2004)
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- Progress of the World Women: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals (2002)
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UNIFEM, UNDP, ILO

- Progress of The World's Women 2005 (August 2005)
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United Nations Development Programme - UNDP

- The Millennium Development Goals: Gender Related Indicators in the Arab States (June 2003)
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- MDGs -- National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens (May 2003)
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United Nations Millennium Project

- From Promises to Action: Recommendations on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2004)
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WIDE Austria (Network Women Development Europe)

- Focusing on Human Rights and Gender Justice: Linking the MDGs to CEDAW and the Beijing Platform (February 2005)
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Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO)

- Common Ground: Women's Access to Natural Resources and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (December 2003)
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Women's Human Rights Net

- Women and the Millennium Development Goals (November 2003)
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Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice

- Seeking Accountability on Women's Rights: Women Debate the Millennium Development Goals (2004)
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World Bank Group

- Gender Equality & the Millennium Development Goals (April 2003)
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- ICT, Gender Equality and Empowering Women (2003)
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World Federation of United Nations Association

- Mainstreaming Gender to Achieve the MDGs (June 2003)
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World Health Organization -- WHO

- 'En-gendering' the Millennium Development Goals on Health (2003)
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Other links

For more research material on the Millennium Development Goals, please visit the following links:

• Civil Society Organizations
• International Organizations & Academia
• Country-Regional Studies
• Millennium Research Project

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Targets & Indicators

Question & Answers

Selected Background Legislation & Reports

NGLS Publications on the MDGs

For research material on other Goals, please see the sidebar located on page