INSTRAW Library

Welcome to the INSTRAW LIBRARY, a compilation of around 600 publications produced by the former UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW), which served as the leading UN institute devoted to research, training and knowledge management to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. INSTRAW, along with DAW, OSAGI and UNIFEM, came together in 2010 to establish the present UN Women.

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The Legacy of INSTRAW

In addition to the INSTRAW Library, the UN Women Training Centre presents the publication “The legacy of INSTRAW in promoting the rights of women. A historical record of the Institute between 1976 and 2010”, which intends to pay tribute to the story of INSTRAW as well as to the women’s movements and governments which supported it.

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ID: 1994-R-MIG-GLO
Reference: The Migration of Women: Methodological Issues in the Measurement and Analysis of Internal and International Migration. (1994). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: INSTRAW.
Year: 1994
Description: This reseach study provides an in-depth look at some of the problems that contribute to the neglect of research on women's migration. Primarily, the focus is on the inadequacies in existing data on women's migration on matters confronting the internal and international migration on women in the third world from a methodological perspective.This publication offers concrete recommendations on how to improve statistics and indicators on migration, eliminating, to the extent possible, existing biases and misrepresentation of women's migration.
Instraw's Mandate: Research
Theme: Migration
Keywords: Statistics, indicators and data, International migration, National migration
Geographic Area: Global
Languages: English
French
Type of Product: Report
Disponibility: Printed
LinkToFile: PDF FILE