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Home > Linking Gender and Sustainable Development - Updated: 23-08-2002 3:22 pm
For UNESCO, mainstreaming gender in sustainable development means committing to human security - a concept that encompasses ecological, economic, social, cultural and personal security for women and men alike.  

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CSD Women's Caucus
A caucus of women's organisations and NGOs concerned with gender & sustainable development issues.
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Culture, Women and Gender Equality
Web-site within UNESCO’s Culture Sector provides entries to reference sources.
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IDRC Gender and Sustainable Development Unit
Integrating a gender perspective in all the programmes and initiatives of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada.
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Site developed by UNESCO’s Women and Gender Equality Unit.
UNESCO Linking Gender and Sustainable Development
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Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future - Gender focus
Women and Sustainable Development’ is one of 25 modules in a multimedia teacher education programme published by UNESCO in 2002 as part of its function as task manager of Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 and as a contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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UNESCO Women and Gender Equality Website
Principal entry in UNESCO’s web-site to activities on gender issues within the Organization.
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UNESCO-L’Oréal Partnership for Women in Science
Includes L’Oréal Awards for Women in Science and a fellowship scheme for encouraging young women working in doctoral and postdoctoral research.
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Women - Beijing Conference
Fourth World Conference on Women - Beijing, People's Republic of China, 1995
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Women - Beijing+5
2000
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Women and Gender in Social and Human Sciences
Web-site of activities regarding women in UNESCO’s Sector of Social and Human Sciences
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Women and Water: Resources Supply and Use
Project which ran from 1996 to 1999 within UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme (IHP), with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Women on the Net
Assisting women in using the Internet for their empowerment.
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Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO)
WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all.
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