Work and employment
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- Combating Poverty and Inequality: structural change, social policy and politics
- Y Bangura / United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2010
- This report explores the causes, dynamics and persistence of poverty, and argues that current approaches to poverty often ignore its root causes. It analyses poverty reduction as part of long-term processes of social,...
- Making Care Visible: Women’s unpaid care work in Nepal, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya
- D. Budlender; R. Moussie / ActionAid International, 2013
- This report documents Action Aid's multi-country programme on women's unpaid care work. The programme, which is based in Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda, recognises that while all women, regardless of class, race, caste and ethn...
- Addressing gender barriers to decent work in Asia
- L.L. Lim / Asian Development Bank, 2011
- Reducing gender barriers to decent work is fundamental to advancing the inclusive growth agenda in developing countries. This publication aims to offer evidence-based policy recommendations on strategies to advance gender equality in ...
- Social connection of street girls in the context of Dhaka City, Bangladesh
- J Mozdalifa / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
- This year 2012, the theme of IWD is “CONNECTING GIRLS, INSPIRING FUTURES”. Following this theme, this paper is going to study about a deprived but major segment of girls who are street girls and their social connection in Dh...
- A guide to using the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa for legal action
- Equality Now, 2011
- Equality Now, on behalf of Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR), has published this guide to using the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa for legal action. The protocol is a supplementary protocol to th...
- A View Over Discrimination And Harassment Situation of Daily Unskilled Female Workers in Work Place in Bangladesh
- T Haque 2012
- This study finds that most of female unskilled labourers moved from village to town and had come from distressed family situations and were often discriminated /harassed by their employers and co-workers. The study conducted in Savar ...
- A View Over Discrimination And Harassment Situation of Daily Unskilled Female Workers in Work Place in Bangladesh
- T. Haque 2003
- From the study it was found that most of the female unskilled laborers moved from village to town and had come from distressed family often discriminated /harassed by their employers and co-workers.
- Stitched Up: women workers in the Bangladeshi garment sector
- K Alam / War on Want, 2011
- In Bangladesh, women workers account for 85% of the total workforce in the garment industry. While some have viewed this as a positive step towards female emancipation, the reality is that women are employed in a highly exploitative c...
- Global economic crisis, gender and employment: the impact and policy response
- N. Otobe / International Labour Organization, 2011
- The paper analyses the gender dimensions of the impact of the global economic crisis on the world of work, highlighting the overall higher vulnerabilities and insecurity of women’s work than men’s. It analyses the gender dif...
- Financial crises and female work
- M.T. Choudhry 2010
- The worst social consequences of the 2007-08 financial crisis and subsequent (2008-09) global recession are being felt this year (2010), because of the usual delays in the labour market effects. The impact is deeper on the weakest seg...
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