Gender equality

Technical and policy documents

Policy Guidance References to Gender Mainstreaming

Equality, development and peace
A UNICEF publication for the Beijing +5 conference that reflects our concerns, experience and recommendations for action beyond Beijing +5 based on lessons learned. The publication gives an overview on progress made by UNICEF in implementation of the Beijing Platform for action and contains fact sheets on issues such as gender socialization, girls' education, adolescent girls, maternal mortality, violence against women and sexual exploitation. 
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Domestic violence against women and girls
UNICEF’s Innocenti Research Centre study which asserts that domestic violence has reached global epidemic proportions and demonstrates the need to overturn the prevalent assumption that domestic violence is insoluble because it takes place within the "private" sphere of the family. 
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Breaking the Earthenware Jar: Lessons from South Asia to End Violence against Women and Girls
’Breaking the Earthenware Jar’ is based on interviews with some 200 activists against violence against women in South Asia. According to Dr. Ruth Finney Hayward, UNICEF's former Deputy Regional Director for South Asia and author of the book, it is like a quilt made of the experiences of men and women of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.  The report includes accounts of men and women who are challenging social norms on the rights of women.
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NGO Working Groups on Girls' report for Beijing+5
’Girls 2000: NGOs Report on Progress Since Beijing [ PDF ]’ has been prepared by the NGO Working Groups on Girls. The report conveys the voice and perspective of NGOs in the field and covers their views on violence, education and economic exploitation; government progress, including National Plans of Action, and good practices by NGOs.