The Gender Perspectives of the Financial Crisis

Paper presented at the fifty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 2-13 March 2009, New York; Interactive expert panel on the emerging issue of "The Gender Perspectives of the Financial Crisis"

Violence against Women: harmful traditional and cultural practices in the Asian and Pacific region

Based on the report of the expert group meeting on regional strategies for implementing the recommendations from the Secretary-General’s in-depth study on all forms of violence against women, with particular emphasis on harmful traditional and cultural practices and the role of national women’s machineries, 26-27 April 2007, Bangkok

Specific Indicator Initiatives and Issues in the ESCAP Region Related to the Measurement of Violence against Women

Paper presented at the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Indicators to Measure Violence against Women, 8-10 October 2007, Geneva

Integrating Unpaid Work into National Policies Publication

This Guidebook provides a toolbox to help improve the collection, analysis and utilization of data and statistics on unpaid work to ensure more relevant policy-making and programming. It draws heavily from country experiences that show the utilization of time-use data as a tool for measuring and estimating the economic value of unpaid work, and the inclusion of the results in policy formulation