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Human Rights: Handbook for Parliamentarians Nยฐ 26 Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) The Human Rights Handbook for Parliamentarians is based on the conviction that parliaments and their members can play a key role in delivering concretely on human rights. It is a joint initiative of the IPU and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. With brief presentations of the international human rights legal framework and international mechanisms which oversee its implementation at the national level, the Handbook looks at how parliaments can contribute to greater human rights protection. 
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol: Handbook for Parliamentarians No. 36; Revised edition Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) | UN. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN. OHCHR) More than four decades after its adoption, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women remains an essential and ambitious guide for achieving gender equality across the board โ from the family and the classroom to executive boards and political leadership roles. Despite considerable progress since the Convention came into force, no country can yet claim to have fully achieved gender equality. This revised edition of The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol: Handbook for Parliamentarians is a joint collaboration undertaken by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). 
Women in politics: 2019 Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) | Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) The โWomen in politics: 2019โ map, created by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and UN Women, depicts global rankings for women in the executive and parliamentary branches of government as of 1 January 2019. The map shows progress towards gender equality in these areas at regional and national levels.