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YUVA five core values include gender justice, social justice, secularism and democracy, ecological justice and honesty and integrity.

It is clear from our work on gender justice that justice and peace are closely interlinked.

(c) Continuation of a regional programme on women, justice and gender

The commitment to achieve gender equality and justice included in the 1999 Broad Guidelines of State Policy specifically calls for the empowerment of women to achieve gender equality and justice.

The YMCA also welcomes cooperation among women's organisations, NGOs, UN bodies and governments in addressing gender inequalities and achieving gender justice.

REJG Rede Estadual de Justiça e Gênero the State Network for Justice and Gender

While globalization provides wider opportunities for gender equality and justice, it also creates conditions that can perpetuate gender inequality in the work force.

We built this institution based on social justice, gender equity, this idea of empowering women.

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Gender justice must not be left to the realm of customary and traditional legal systems.

(b) Continuation of a regional programme on women, criminal justice and gender (priority theme C)

Equal justice and opportunities for women at all levels were essential to ensure gender equality.

The Consultative Committee expresses its gratitude to UNIFEM for its continuing support and for its ongoing efforts concerning gender justice following the convening of the first Conference on Gender Justice in Post Conflict Situations in September 2004.

Issues discussed included lack of access to justice, gender discrimination in the criminal justice system, and the politicization of religion and tradition and poverty.

The linkages between crime prevention and criminal justice and gender equality were acknowledged in some resolutions.

In resolution 1325 (2000), the Security Council spoke with one voice in emphasizing the need to mainstream gender justice and gender equality in all peace processes.

The Chancellor of Justice has the duty to promote gender equality and the principle of equal treatment.

(b) To support appropriate investigations throughout Somalia in order to combat impunity, to bring perpetrators to justice, and to establish an effective, efficient and non gender biased justice system, including the juvenile justice system

He himself headed a 10 person gender equality unit at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform which was responsible for implementing Ireland's international gender equality commitments.

This law upholds the principle of gender equality and justice in business activities, fair competitiveness and product diversification.

9. Training in gender issues to raise the consciousness of the personnel responsible for ensuring and administering justice.

With regard to persisting discriminative social cultural patterns of conduct and attitude towards women, the Government has adopted Gender Mainstreaming as a strategy to achieve gender equality and justice.

Finally, there must be increased outreach to men and boys of a country so that they truly understand that promoting gender equality and gender justice benefits women and men alike.

That is why their presence is necessary in consolidating democratic institutions, in strengthening gender justice and in legislative debate.

5 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Gender Equality Striving for Justice in an Unequal World (Geneva, 2005).

Gender justice can no longer be bargained away as a soft chip for realizing other political and operational gains.

Under the Access to Justice Programme, special attention is being devoted towards gender sensitization of the police and the judiciary.

To improve gender equality and justice at national, provincial and municipal levels, the Government had revised the law on decentralization, forcing local authorities to integrate gender issues into every stage of development.

Therefore, development of gender sensitivity among community leaders, both traditional and religious, has been enhanced through active participation of women organizations and women gender study centers in specific programs to build support for gender equality and justice in the family and society.

A significant number of countries have established gender units or gender focal points in line ministries and other bodies to promote and monitor gender mainstreaming in a wide range of areas, such as agriculture, education, health, human rights, finance, security, justice and trade.

. The project on women, justice and gender of the Latin American Institute, conducted in the period 1993 1995, was aimed at encouraging training and technical assistance on the improvement of the status of women in the administration of justice, from a gender perspective, and focusing on the judiciary.

the current patriarchal system is changed through educating boys and men that gender inequalities are an abuse of human rights and through mobilising boys and men to advance women's rights and gender justice

The national vision on women empowerment has been the realization of gender equality and justice within the family, community and state.

Perhaps our greatest challenge is to ensure that all the main legal and judicial programmes promote gender mainstreaming and a gender perspective, actually implementing the approach that emerged from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Conference on Gender Justice in Post Conflict Situations.

The Bangkok Declaration on Crime and Justice, Synergies and Responses, adopted by the Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, held in Bangkok, from 18 to 25 April 2005,3 referred to gender perspectives in the context of juvenile justice only.

Effective and sustainable peace, justice and security will remain a distant goals if we do not view them from a gender perspective.

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A special article in Propenas is devoted to gender equality and justice and outlines areas where special attention needs to be given.

The activists focused on two themes racial and gender discrimination, and violence against women with a focus on impunity and transitional justice.

In our view, development can be achieved only through the matrix of pluralism, democracy, good governance, the rule of law and gender justice.

However, the increased number of women in the public and political arenas does not necessarily indicate the achievement of gender equality and justice.

In the area of institutional strengthening and capacity building there are at least four gender related issues namely society's ignorance, especially on the part of government employees, about gender equality and justice  limited data and information on gender equality  poor quality of institutions and, weak relations among institutions.

A significant number of countries21 established gender units and or gender focal points in some or all line ministries and other bodies to promote and monitor gender mainstreaming in departments and agencies working on agriculture, education, health, human rights, law, finance, security, justice, police, prisons, foreign affairs and trade.

The training includes an introduction to international standards on human rights and criminal law, humanitarian law, gender justice, child protection and codes of conduct.