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Women / Femmes

African women's report 1998 : post-conflict reconstruction in Africa : a gender perspective
Addis Ababa : UN Economic Commission for Africa, 1999. v, 76 p.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: Call number to be assigned.
Keywords: WOMEN / RECONSTRUCTION / AFRICA

The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action : Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, 4-15 September 1995
New York : UN, 1996. 178 p.
Document Symbol: DPI/1766.
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT / WOMEN'S RIGHTS / DECLARATIONS / PROGRAMMES OF ACTION

Catalogue of publications for the Fourth World Conference on Women
New York : UN, 1995. 72 p.
Note: Lists major publications by ILO, OECD, UN, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNRISD, UNU, WHO and the World Bank
UN Library (NY) Call No.: A/CONF.177(016)/W6
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT / WOMEN'S RIGHTS / CATALOGUES

Compendium of international conventions concerning the status of women
New York : UN, 1988. iv, 186 p.
Note: Includes full text of treaties
Document Symbol: ST/CSDHA/3
Sales No.: 88.IV.3
Keywords: TREATIES / WOMEN'S STATUS / WOMEN'S RIGHTS / WOMEN

Compendium of statistics and indicators on the situation of women, 1986
New York : UN, 1988. xi, 592 p.
Note: Bilingual (E/F)
Document Symbol: ST/ESA/STAT/SER.K/5
Sales No.: 88.XVII.6
Keywords: SOCIAL STATISTICS / SOCIAL INDICATORS / WOMEN

Directory of national machinery for the advancement of women, 1993
Vienna : UN, 1993. 167 p.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: UNST/IESA/CSDHA(02)/D4.
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT / FOCAL POINTS / DIRECTORIES

Droits des femmes : recueil de textes normatifs internationaux
Paris : Unesco, 1999. xxxi, 346 p.
Note: In French. Produced for the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
UN Library (NY) Call No.: UNESCO(02)/S988
Keywords: WOMEN'S RIGHTS / INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS

Female genital mutilation : an overview
Geneva : WHO, 1998. viii, 73 p.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: WHO(02)/F329.
Keywords: WOMEN'S HEALTH / FEMALE CIRCUMCISION

From Nairobi to Beijing : report of the Secretary-General
New York : UN, 1995. xxi, 366 p.
Note: Gives detailed account of developments from the Third to the Fourth World Conferences on Women
Sales No.: 95.IV.5
UN Library (NY) Call No.: UNE/CN.6(064)/S3
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT

Human development report, 1995
New York : published for UNDP by Oxford University Press, 1995.
Note: 1995 ed. focuses on the status and advancement of women and introduces the gender-related development index and the gender empowerment measure
Internet: http://www.undp.org/hdro/95.htm.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: UNDP(058)/H8.
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT / WOMEN'S STATUS / SEX DISCRIMINATION / SOCIAL INDICATORS

Putting gender on the agenda : a guide to participating in UN world conferences
New York, 1995. xii, 51 p.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: UNDP/UNIFEM(02)/P8.
Keywords: UN / CONFERENCES / NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS / WOMEN / GUIDES

Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 4-15 September 1995
New York : UN, 1996. iv, 218 p.
Note: Includes text of Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
Document Symbol: A/CONF.177/20/Rev.1
Sales No.: 96.IV.13
Internet: gopher://gopher.undp.org:70/00/unconfs/women/off/a--20.en.
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT / WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT

Strategies for confronting domestic violence : a resource manual
New York : UN, 1993. 122 p.
Document Symbol: ST/CSDHA/20.
Keywords: BATTERED WOMEN / CHILD ABUSE / CRIME PREVENTION / DOMESTIC VIOLENCE / MANUALS

UNESCO publications concerning the status of women : annotated bibliography for the period 1965-1990
Paris : UNESCO, 1991. 238 p.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: UNESCO(016)/UN3.
Keywords: UNESCO / WOMEN / WOMEN'S STATUS / BIBLIOGRAPHIES

The United Nations and the advancement of women, 1945-1996
New York : UN, 1996. 845 p.
Note: Gives overview of UN involvement in and reproduces major UN documents pertaining to the advancement of women
Document Symbol: DPI/1804
Sales No.: 96.I.9
Keywords: WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT / WOMEN'S RIGHTS / WOMEN / HISTORY / UN

Wistat : women's indicators and statistics database, version 3 [CD-ROM]
New York : UN, 1995. 1 CD-ROM disc + user guide.
Document Symbol: ST/ESA/STAT/SER.K/CD/11.
Sales No.: 95.XVII.6.
Keywords: WOMEN / SOCIAL STATISTICS / SOCIAL INDICATORS

Women : looking beyond 2000
New York : UN, 1995. vii, 126 p.
Sales No.: 95.I.40.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: UNST/DPI(02)/W66.
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT

Women in Asia and the Pacific 1985-1993
New York : UN, 1994. iv, 144 p.
Document Symbol: ST/ESCAP/1477.
Keywords: WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT / WOMEN'S STATUS / WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE

Women in politics and decision-making in the late 20th century : a United Nations study
Dordrecht, Netherlands; Boston, Mass. : Nijhoff, 1992. xv, 123 p.
Sales No.: 91.IV.3.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: UNST/IESA/SDHA(02)/W6.
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN IN POLITICS

Women in transition
Florence, Italy : UNICEF, 1999. xi, 162 p.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: E/ICEF/ICDC(05)/E192/NO. 6.
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S STATUS / SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS / ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION

Women's health : across age and frontier
Geneva : WHO, 1992. vii, 107 p.
UN Library (NY) Call No.: WHO(02)/W6.
Keywords: WOMEN'S HEALTH / HEALTH STATISTICS

Women's issues
New York : UN, 1995. iv, 183 p.
Note: Multilingual (A/C/E/F/R/S)
Document Symbol: ST/CS/SER.F/348
Sales No.: 95.I.44
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S STATUS / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT / TERMINOLOGY / ARABIC LANGUAGE / CHINESE LANGUAGE / ENGLISH LANGUAGE / FRENCH LANGUAGE / RUSSIAN LANGUAGE / SPANISH LANGUAGE

Women's rights : the responsibility of all
New York; Geneva, 1997. iii, 41 p.
Note: Compilation of basic information and documents on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
UN Library (NY) Call No.: ST/HR(05)/B311, No. 2
Keywords: WOMEN'S RIGHTS / WOMEN

The work of CEDAW : reports of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
New York : UN, 1989-.
Note: Irregular. Vol I: 1982-1985; vol. II: 1986-1987; vol. III: 1988; vol. IV: 1989
Document Symbol: ST/CSDHA/5 + Corr.1 (vol. I); ST/CSDHA/9 + erratum (vol. II); ST/CSDHA/26 (vol. III); ST/CSDHA/27 (vol. IV)
Sales No.: 89.IV.4 (vol. I); 90.IV.4 (vol. II); 96.IV.6 (vol. III); 96.IV.7 (vol. IV)
Keywords: WOMEN / WOMEN'S RIGHTS / SEX DISCRIMINATION / CEDAW

World survey on the role of women in development
New York : UN, 1999.
Note: Irregular; latest ed. received: 1999. Holdings recorded in UN-I-QUE
Document Symbol: ST/ESA/269
Sales No.: 99.IV.8
Keywords: SOCIAL STATISTICS / WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT / WOMEN

The world's women, 2000 : trends and statistics
New York : UN, 2000. xx, 180 p.
Document Symbol: ST/ESA/STAT/SER.K/16.
Sales No.: 00.XVII.14.
Keywords: WOMEN'S STATUS / WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT / SOCIAL STATISTICS