Use Women of the World for statistical and other fact searches by country or region. The Development Programme has a Gender and Development Programme site with numerous documents on gender mainstreaming and other topics. The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific has a website for its Women in Development Section. The High Commissioner for Human Rights site includes the texts of international human rights instruments and a Human Rights Treaty Bodies Database that is useful for monitoring the implementation of international human rights treaties, including Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. Consult the UN Scholars' Workstation from Yale University for help understanding research approaches to UN information and make use of other research tools on the site.
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It organizes UN agencies and their searchable indices into a single, all encompassing search. All links working December 12, 2000. May 16, 2001.