This brief explanatory note explains the relationship between the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs), the UN Global Compact and the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. The UN Global Compact focuses on corporate sustainability of which respect and support for human rights is one key part. The WEPs elaborate the gender dimension of corporate sustainability, including the corporate responsibility to respect and corporate commitment to support women’s rights. And the Guiding Principles elaborate the state duty to protect against human rights abuses (including of women’s rights) by third parties, including business; the corporate responsibility to respect human rights (including women’s rights); and the need for more effective access to remedies for such abuses. The Guiding Principles elaborate on the policies, processes and actions required of all businesses to meet their responsibility to respect human rights, including women’s rights.

This document presents a Report on Economic situation and outlook in the current transition phase in Tunisia. The economy of Tunisia underwent a three-phased industrialization process. The first phase, following independence, entailed nationalizing production units and creating heavy industry. This policy led to major investment, mainly by the State, in a bid to build a basic industrial network as a substitute for imports.

This document presents a report on Women’s economic empowerment-Boosting female entrepreneurship in Africa. Women’s economic empowerment is a process through which their capital (human, financial and physical) endowments increase along with their access to and benefits from economic opportunities, leading to improved agency and voice. Improving women’s labour market skills and increasing their financial and physical assets can not only empower women directly, but also improve their access to decent employment, with higher wages, better career prospects and competitive business performance.

Measuring gender-transformative change, A review of literature and promising practices is a paper that discusses promising practices for measuring gender transformative change and looks at the literature for options to effectively include gender transformation in Monitoring and Evaluation systems. The paper is a joint product of CARE, World Fish, and CGIAR's Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems.

This report, the third official report from Lebanon, comes less than a year after Lebanon’s submission of its first and second reports (CEDAW/C/LBN/1 and CEDAW/C/LBN/2) considered by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (hereafter referred to as “the Committee”) at its 691st and 692nd sessions in New York on 12 July 2005 (CEDAW/C/SR.691 and CEDAW/C/SR.692). This is Lebanon’s response to the agenda set for periodic reporting, pursuant to article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of all Form of Discrimination against Women (hereafter referred to as “the Convention”).