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Law & justice
Last updated on
03 August 2008
Legal frameworks and judicial institutions that support democracy, human rights and gender equality is integral to the advancement of good governance.
This section provides links to legislation resources, human rights organisations and tools to promote the equal participation of women in leadership and politicial decision-making in the Asia Pacific.
Gender equality
- Changing social institutions to improve the status of women in developing countries
- Parliament, the budget and gender
- 1325 Australia
- Women in parliament in Indonesia: Denied a share of power
- Women working in the New South Wales public sector booklets
- Gender and governance
- Women and political participation: 21st century challenges
- Women's Environment and Development Organization: the 50/50 campaign
- The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
- Gender and political participation legislation and resources
- Women in parliament handbook
- United Nations Development Fund for Women
Human rights
- Asian Legal Resource Centre
- Asian Human Rights Commission
- Equality at work: tackling the challenge
- Addressing the problem of cross-border child trafficking
- Converging currents: custom & human rights in the Pacific
- Trafficking in persons report 2006
- Dignity counts Â? a guide to using budget analysis to advance human rights
- Human rights tools
- Gender analysis of human trafficking between Cambodia and Thailand
- Australian Human Rights Centre
- The trafficking of children through a human rights lens
- Amnesty International justice directory
- Forum-Asia
- Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
- Human rights and law enforcement
Legislation
Resources & toolkits
- Pacific Islands Legal Information
- Law enforcement and defence complaint handling: workshop proceedings in PNG
- Criminal justice assessment toolkit
- Silencing guns
- Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School
- Solomon Islands - peace and conflict development analysis
- Making government accountable by making it transparent
- Vietnam - legal and judicial development (a working paper)
- Bangalore principles of judicial conduct
- Land, people and governance: Conflicts and resolutions in the South Pacific
Security & conflict
- Growing up with war: experiences of children affected by armed conflict in Sri Lanka
- Australia's mine action activities 2006-2007
- Bougainville and the discovery of slowness: an unhurried approach to state-building in the Pacific
- Conducting conflict assessments Â? guidance notes
- Mine action strategy 2005-2010
- Inclusive security, sustainable peace - a toolkit for advocacy and action