Empowerment
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- ICT and gender in Bangladesh
- ( Development Research Network , 2009)
- ‘Digital Bangladesh’ became a key issue in the last election as the benefits of ICT became more well known. At the same time as this growing interest, Bangladesh was and still is in a time...
- Can microcredit for women tackle poverty in the EU?
- ( Women in Development Europe , 2009)
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How the family may be co-opted by wider forces, to serve different political ends
- ( S. White / International Development Department, University of Birmingham , 2009)
- The question of whether Islam empowers women arises in the context of contemporary Bangladesh where, while conventional indicators of gender inequality are narrowing, Islam is increasingly visible in ...
- Best practice for women's empowerment
- ( F. Flintan / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union) , 2008)
- It is often suggested that women in pastoral societies are marginalised and oppressed either through embedded patriarchal values or through outside influences such as development actors, whose monetar...
- Challenges faced by women and girls with disabilities in the Pacific
- ( D. Stubbs;S. Tawake / United Nations Development Programme , 2009)
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Women and girls with disabilities experience disadvantages and discrimination based on the combination of both disability and gender-based discrimination, known as ‘intersectional discriminat...
- Understanding feminist movements
- ( S. Batliwala / Association for Women's Rights in Development , 2008)
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How can an understanding of feminist movements in the current global context be achieved? This document presents 10 case studies from different regions of the world that have mobilized women t...
- Progressive transsexual laws in Iran lead to greater oppression
- ( R. Bahreini (ed) / Muslim World Journal of Human Rights , 2009)
- The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) punishes homosexuality with death but acknowledges transsexuality, and partially funds sex change operations. This article examines how this seemingly progressive st...
What happens to families when a member of the household migrates?
- ( Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex , 2009)
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The study of the difficulties faced by those who stay behind when a member of their household migrates temporarily are under-researched in migration studies. The aim of this briefing is to summaris...
- Motherhood and leadership in Africa
- ( F. W. Ngunjiri / Women and International Development Center, Michigan State University , 2009)
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Western discourse on the status of women and their positions in society, the inequity in their employment experiences, and their limited participation in leadership dominates intellectual theorizin...
- Sexual and gendered violence in Argentina
- ( S. Elizalde / Women and International Development Center, Michigan State University , 2008)
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Institutional violence directed against young people in Argentina has involved a specific dimension of sexual and gendered violence. This article analyses some of the ideological effects and practi...
