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The salience of citizenship and nationality.

In most Middle Eastern countries, a woman can't pass her nationality to her children or spouse like a man can. In many countries around the world, children are relegated stateless because of who their parents are (or aren't). This brief report explores the importance of nationality to full civic participation and human rights. (Rochelle Jones, AWID, 14 April 2006)

http://www.awid.org/go.php?list=analysis&prefix=analysis&item=00311

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Gender research seeks answers on South African campuses

(IDRC) By Keane J. Shore, July 21, 2003. "In South Africa, post-secondary education is a privilege, and many students currently enroled in universities are the first in their families to reach for it. Degrees are also one of only a few tickets to upward mobility, and students endure enormous economic and personal pressures to graduate ... Succeeding on campus means facing powerfully entrenched ideas tied to gender and heterosexuality, according to Bennett."

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-33995-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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Made by Women: gender, the global garment industry and the movement for women workers' rights

This 67 page report draws attention to the importance of women in the garment industry, and the fact that gender plays an important role in determining working conditions, worker's rights, and wages. It highlights a number of gender concerns within this industry, by providing a series of profiles on women workers, activists, and organisations. It also addresses current changes in the discourse of gender in the garment industry, including migrant workers, worker's health, codes of conduct and trade unions. It includes recomendations to campaigners and other actors in the struggle for workers' rights. (Clean Clothes Campaign, September 2006)

http://www.cleanclothes.org/ftp/made_by_women.pdf

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Women Matter - In All of the Millennium Goals

In order to advance towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), gender equality cannot merely be limited to a number of specific objectives, but must be the lens through which all the targets are viewed, say experts and representatives of women's movements in Argentina. (Marcela Valente, 21 August 2006, IPS)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34412

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Young Women Leaders Rise Up To Challenges

Frank Phiri BLANTYRE, 9 Jul (IPS) - -Faced with high prevalence of HIV/AIDS infection, environmental degradation and sluggish economic growth, young women professionals in Malawi have put their heads together and intensified efforts to bring about a major paradigm shift.

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=19156

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"Toward a Compassionate Society" - Web Anthology from Women's Learning Partnership (WLP)

Edited with an introduction by Mahnaz Afkhami, President of WLP. WLP announces the web anthology Toward a Compassionate Society, which addresses the importance of cultural pluralism and women's role in promoting peace in a rapidly globalising world. The issues are examined from a variety of gender-focused cultural and inter-disciplinary perspectives including sociology, anthropology, human rights, philosophy, and religion. Full PDF file available online.

http://www.learningpartnership.org/docs/copanthology.pdf

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A Decade After Cairo: Women's Health in a Free Market Economy

The 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo was heralded as a "quantum leap" forward and a "paradigm shift in the discourse about population and development". Its Programme of Action, endorsed by 179 countries and intended to establish international and national population policy for the following two decades, was the first and most comprehensive international policy document to promote the concepts of reproductive rights and reproductive health. One decade later, however, maternal mortality worldwide remains high. Some 600,000 women die each year, 95 per cent of them in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, and 18 million are left disabled or chronically ill because of largely preventable complications during pregnancy or childbirth. This briefing summarises the actions of several women's groups to influence the outcome of the 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development and evaluates with hindsight some of the successes and failures of the Programme of Action. (The Corner House, June, 2004)

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/item.shtml?x=62140#introduction

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About-face

About-Face promotes positive self-esteem in girls and women of all ages, sizes, races and backgrounds through a spirited approach to media education, outreach and activism.

http://www.about-face.org/

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Achieving Women's Economic and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from Experience

In 2005 AWID asked over 50 activists working in diverse settings all over the world what strategies they found most useful in their efforts to improve economic and social rights for women? What were the greatest challenges they were encountering in their work? Did the ESCR framework actually fulfill its promise in presenting them with a new and more effective approach to their work? This report synthesizes and analyzes some important examples and lessons that emerged through this investigative process. (AWID, October 2006)

http://www.awid.org/go.php?pg=escr_report

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African Union: An opportunity to strengthen the promotion and protection of the women's rights

Amnesty International, News Service No: 061, 23 March 2003. Amnesty International urges the African Union ministerial meeting, convening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 24 to 28 March, to agree on a protocol to strengthen the human rights framework for the protection and promotion of women's rights in Africa. "It is vital that the Draft Protocol includes measures to ensure greater accountability of states to eliminate prejudices and practices that impede women's rights to equality and freedom from discrimination. The meeting must send an important message to African governments that the human rights of women are an inalienable, integral, and indivisible part of internationally recognized human rights," Amnesty International said. The Draft Protocol is expected to be adopted by the Assembly of Heads of the African Union at its second session in Maputo in July.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAFR010012003

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Agricultural Biotechnology Factsheet

This Fact Sheet highlights the importance of agricultural biotechnology for gender equality and development. Focusing on genetic modification (GM), it illustrates some of its existing and potential uses in agriculture, explores some of the risks associated with GM, and identifies issues relevant to women's human rights (AWID, September 2004).

http://www.awid.org/publications/primers/agr_bio_en.pdf

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Asessment report on: women and poverty, and the economic empowerment of women.

Economic Commission for Africa Sixth African Regional Conference on Women; 22-26 November 1999, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: mid-decade review of the implementation of the Dakar and Beijing platforms for action in the African region by Perpetua Katepa-Kalala NOVEMBER 1999

http://www.uneca.org/eca_resources/Publications/ACW/new/acgd_publications/Women%20and%20poverty.htm

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Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development

APWLD's programs and activities are focused in promoting women's rights human rights as an analytical and strategic framework of engaging with the legal system to empower women. APWLD has engaged primarily in policy advocacy, education, training and other activities to address issues and concerns of poor and marginalized women in the region. It has lobbied at regional and international levels for the implementation of government commitments in international conventions and the integration of gender issues at regional and international fora. APWLD has developed partnership with women's groups, human rights groups and development NGOs in the Asia Pacific region to consolidate, expand and strengthen networks working on women, law and development.

http://www.apwld.org/

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Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW)

ARROW was formally established in 1993 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as a regional non-profit and non-governmental organisation concerned with ensuring that development policies and plans influencing women's health status, included women's and gender perspectives. Co-founded by Rita Raj and Rashidah Abdullah, ARROW's programme focus is on women and health, which currently prioritises four specific areas of action.

http://www.arrow.org.my/

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Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)

Inspired by a 1984 seminar entitled "Women's Choices, Women's Lives", AWARE was registered in Singapore in November 1985 as a voluntary organisation of women with three main areas of focus: Support, Research and Advocacy. Our Vision: Gender Equity For All Our Mission: Paving the Way for Gender Equity through... *raising awareness of women's & men's rights and responsibilities *developing women's full potential by encouraging full participation in public and private life *enhancing women's knowledge and skills and empowering them to make informed decisions.

http://www.aware.org.sg/

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Barter Markets: Sustaining people and nature in the Andes

As regulative institutions, Andean barter markets help sustain local food systems and the ecosystems in which they are embedded. Action research with indigenous communities in Peru generated new evidence on the importance of barter markets for: - giving some of the poorest social groups in the Andes better food security and nutrition; - conserving agricultural biodiversity (genetic, species, ecosystem) through the growing and exchange of native food crops in barter markets; - maintaining ecosystem services and landscape features in different agro-ecological zones; and - enabling local, autonomous control of production and consumption - and more specifically control by women over key decisions that affect both local livelihoods and ecological processes. (IIED, July 2005)

http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdf/full/14518IIED.pdf

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Because I'm a Girl: the state of the world's girls 2007

This report 'Because I am a Girl' is a significant contribution to the efforts to document discrimination against girls and fight gender inequality. Even though women and girls represent over 50 per cent of the world's population, they occupy second-class status in every society. Gender inequality is pervasive and it begins before a girl child is even born. In every part of the world, families and societies treat girls and boys differently, with girls facing greater discrimination and accessing fewer opportunities and little or sub-standard education, health care and nutrition. (Plan International, 2007)

http://www.plan-international.org/pdfs/becauseiamagirl.pdf

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Beijing Plus 10: An Ambivalent Record on Gender Justice

The 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women (the "Beijing Conference") was a landmark in policy terms, setting a global policy framework to advance gender equality. Ten years after Beijing, in March 2005, the UN's Commission on the Status of Women presided over an intergovernmental meeting in New York to review the progress achieved on the commitments made in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. This "Plus 10" event was decidedly low key. This paper, drawing on research undertaken for the UNRISD report, Gender Equality: Striving for Justice in an Unequal World, reflects on the ambivalent record of progress achieved by women over the last decades and considers how the policy environment has changed over the period since the high point of the global women's movements. (UNRISD, August 2006)

http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BF3C2/setLanguageCookie?OpenAgent&langcode=en&url=/80256B3C005BCCF9/search/4EE168779E57E924C12571CA003C2295?OpenDocument

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Beyond Access: Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender Equality in Education [Available in PDF & Word]

In a world in which poverty, social prejudice, and poor-quality provision cause an estimated 100 million girls to drop out of school before completing their primary education, it is not enough for governments to pledge themselves to increase girls' access to school. This book presents a vision of a transformational education which would promote social change, enable girls to achieve their full potential, and contribute to the creation of a just and democratic society. Contributors to this book examine the extent and causes of gender-based inequality in education; analyse government policies and their implications for women's empowerment; and report on original field-work in a range of local contexts where gender-equality initiatives have flourished. In their introduction and their concluding chapter, Sheila Aikman and Elaine Unterhalter consider the challenges that confront policy makers, practitioners, campaigners, and researchers if they are to make real progress towards gender equality in education, in the context of the Millennium Development Goals. Sheila Aikman (Global Education Policy Adviser, Oxfam GB) and Elaine Unterhalter (Senior Lecturer in Education, University of London Institute of Education) are joint co-ordinators of Beyond Access: Gender, Education, and Development, a project arising from a partnership between Oxfam, the Institute of Education, and the British government's Department for International Development (DFID). Oxfam UK.

http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?isb=0855985291

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Beyond Inequalities: Women in Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Each book in the 'Beyond Equalities' Series focuses on the rights and status of women in a Southern African country, profiling the efforts to mainstream gender-equality concerns at all levels. It was updated in 2005 for Botswana, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Chapter analyse the situation for women in regards to the economy, health, education, decision-making, HIV and AIDS media and information, mechanisms, legal and policy reform, gender-based violence, and the environment. They discuss policies and programmes relevant to women, and look at the way forward from here. The books are free to download, by chapter or as a whole. (Southern African research and Documentation Centre, 2005)

http://www.sarpn.org.za/documents/d0001465/index.php

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Beyond Tools: Technology as a feminist agenda

This srticle argues strongly for a feminist agenda on technology. Drawing on the discussions at the AWID Forum, she shows how within the framework of women's rights technology is a determining factor in women's sexuality, representation and exploitation, and has to be seen as one more facet of violence against women. She calls on the feminist movement to engage technologies as a site of feminist political struggle.(Chat Garcia Ramilo, Development, 2006)

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v49/n1/full/1100230a.html

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Beyond Victimhood: Women's Peacebuilding in Sudan, Congo and Uganda

Countries in crisis and the wider international community must do much more to support women's involvement in solving Africa's deadliest conflicts. In Sudan, Congo and Uganda, an array of women's organisations and leaders are doing remarkable work, under difficult circumstances, especially in community organisations and informal conflict resolution mechanisms. Still, women remain marginalised in formal peace processes and post-conflict governments. Donors and others in the international community all need to do much more to offer sustainable support rather than just rhetoric. It is not merely a question of fairness or equity: women make a difference in part because they often adopt a more inclusive approach toward security and address key social and economic issues that would otherwise be ignored. Peace agreements, post-conflict reconstruction and governance work better when women peace activists are involved. (International Crisis Group, 28 June 2006)

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=4185

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Bringing Equality Home

Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women CEDAW

http://www.unifem.undp.org/CEDAW/

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Challenging Fundamentalisms: A web resource for women's human rights

This web-based resource aims to strengthen women's movements, locally, globally and cross-regionally, both within specific religious/ethnic communities affected by fundamentalism and across religious/ethnic divides.

http://www.whrnet.org/fundamentalisms/

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Civil Society, Community Participation and Empowerment in the Era of Globalization

This paper argues that the donor rhetoric of engaging with 'transnational civil society'' should not be confused with, or considered a valid replacement, for consulting with the poor, espcially women. (Marilyn Waring, AWID, 2004)

http://www.awid.org/publications/OccasionalPapers/spotlight1.pdf

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