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Norwegian promotion of international human rights
( V. Bye (ed);R. Bezerra (ed);A. Disch (ed) / Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation , 2011)
Is there a clear policy behind the Norwegian support to human rights? Is there a specific Norwegian profile in the support to human rights and what results have been achieved?...
Ain’t I A Woman? A global dialogue between the sex workers’ rights movement and the stop violence against women movement
( B Datta / CREA , 2011)
This report arose from a dialogue hosted by CREA and CASAM in 2009 as part of CREA’s “Count Me In” programme on addressing violence against women in south Asia. The topic of the dial...
Older women in India face marginalisation
( Agewell Foundation , 2011)
India has a population of approx. 60 million older women (60+).  This reporrt argues that in India, women have never found themselves at the centre stage, and have always been marginalised from t...
The Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Africa: Does the protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa offer any hope?
( S Kamga / Center for Women Policy Studies , 2011)
This paper is part of the Barbara Faye Waxman Fiduccia Papers on women and girls with disabilities. It considers how the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Right...
The global financial and economic crisis and its impact on women: a human rights perspective
( S Nigam;S Mishra / Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights , 2011)
How has the global financial and economic crisis impacted on south Asian countries, and how has it affected women and men differently? Common economic analyses have highlighted the social impact using...
The Seeds of a Movement: Disabled women and their struggle to organise
( Price J / Association for Women's Rights in Development , 2011)
This case study paper, one of fourteen featured in AWID’s Changing Their World collection on concepts and practices of women’s movements, maps out some of the challenges that disabled wome...
Changing Their World 2nd edition
( S Batliwala (ed) / Association for Women's Rights in Development , 2011)
This selection of four new case studies are an addition to the well received ‘Changing Their World’, publication from 2008, which contained ten case studies and considered what we mean by ...
Sex Work and Women's Movements
( S Shah / CREA , 2011)
What relationships exist between women’s movements and sex workers’ movements? How have historical developments and discourses shaped these relationships, and what are the theoretical and ...
Right Now! Women with Disabilities Build Peace Post-Conflict
( Ortoleva S / Center for Women Policy Studies , 2011)
The main focus of this paper, part of the series of Barbara Faye Waxman Fiduccia papers on women and girls with disabilities, is to makes the argument for better inclusion of women with disabilities i...
World Report on Disability 2011
( World Health Organization , 2011)

This first ever WHO/World Bank World report on disability reviews evidence about the situation of people with disabilities around the world. There are chapters on:

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