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One of the AWC's objectives is Content Creation. To this end the AWC has undertaken publication projects on specific subjects.

Nairobi +21

Commemorating the Third UN World Conference on Women

This publication documents the landmark meeting for women in Africa and the rest of the world. Particularly focusing on how far Nairobi +21 has invigorated and transformed gender issues on the continent. Importantly, it captures milestones that will continue to encourage women in their quest for gender equality. Further, it reiterates the enduring priorities of engagement for gender equality that include political and economic empowerment for women, peace and security for development, ending violence against women, addressing socio-cultural norms that constrain women’s lives, and increasing women’s participation in key decision-making environments.

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Women Gains in the Proposed Constitution

As Kenya gears up for a referendum on the 2010 proposed constitution, GEM and AWC collaboratively compiled this document to give Kenyan women an opportunity to understand the issues that directly affect them in the proposed constitution. This document aims at making the contents of the draft accessible to as many women as possible by simplifying the language and explaining the implications of the provision that directly address gender equality. Overall, the audit reveals that by far this is a better document in terms of women rights than the current constitution.

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Parliamentary Reporting Booklet

Booklet on Parliamentary Reporting

Parliamentary Reporting Booklet

Promises & Realities: Taking Stock of the 3rd UN International Women's Conference

4 World Conferences on women's issues have been organized under the auspices of the United Nations. The 3rd International Women's Conference held in 1985 forms the pivot of this book. This meeting recommended practical and effective steps for global action to promote equality, development and peace for women.

In the Shadow of Death: My Trauma, My Experience

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The book, In the Shadow of Death: My trauma, my experience is public testimony on what the majority women went though during the post-election violence that engulfed Kenya immediately after the Electoral Commission of Kenya announced the results for the hotly-contested presidential polls of the December 2007 General Election.

The crisis brought to the fore a number of factors that separate our society but for long have been ignored by successive post-independence governments: poverty, land, inequality, tribalism, among others.