Spatial variation of gender in Iraq in the light of the indicators of the Millennium Development Goals

	Spatial variation of gender in Iraq in the light of the indicators of the Millennium Development Goals
Alustath
Article 1, Volume 2, Issue 207, 2018, Pages 155-174
Abstract
The concept of gender to the social capital of a society of each country and intended roles, rights and responsibilities of women and men and the relationships between them and also includes a method that determines the characteristics and behaviors and identities and is generally considered the issues of gender issues is critical to achieving sustainable development, where except for gender equality and the availability of equal opportunities and equal participation and interaction in all fields, especially in the areas of education and employment of the main goals of human development adopted by many countries of the world, including Iraq. That the concepts of gender was and still is one of the most concepts controversial and which has received wide attention in the Arab world, including Iraq and strengthen this attention to gender since 1992 when he used the UNDP UN concept of gender as a method and a target for international policy and national promotion of human development. Also addressed the announcement Begin in 1995 and the Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women specific issues relating to the roles exchanged between men and women, inequality and the empowerment of women, given that both men and women benefit from social and economic policies unevenly, so necessary to the commitment of governments in collaboration with the NGOs, regional and international formulate strategies, policies, programs and development priorities, and the integration of gender issues in the overall development because it represents the social capital of each society which encouraged many countries in the world and the Arab countries, including Iraq, to issue a national human development reports annual issued by the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation in Iraq. These data are published in reports of sex-disaggregated essential to follow the contribution of both sexes, especially women, in the process of comprehensive human development of the state and the achievement of gender balance in the community.

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