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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Egypt

  United Nations, 2000

  This submission by the government of Egypt to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) combines the fourth and fifth periodic reports, covering the period 1994 to 1998. It highlights the important role women have played in the country's development processes.
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  Rewriting Divorce in Egypt: Reclaiming Islam, Legal Activism, and Coalition Politics

  2003

  Egypt's Personal Status Law (PSL) coalition, made up of activists, lawyers, government officials, NGO leaders, legislators, and scholars, has been lobbying for 15 years for changes to the personal status laws that govern marriage, divorce, child custody, and inheritance.
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  Luchando por la Justicia: las Mujeres Peruanas en la B£squeda de Los desaparecidos [Fighting forJustice: Peruvian Women in the Search for the Disappeared]

  BRIDGE, 2003

  How has a gender analysis been used in areas of post-conflict? In Peru, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) was set up following two decades of political violence spanning the period from 1980 to 2000.
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  Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect: Women Speak out about Conflict

  Panos Institute, London, 1995

  The survival struggles of ordinary women - whether as fighters, rape survivors, camp inhabitants, mothers or peacemakers - are highlighted in the accounts of conflict situations covered in this report. As part of the process of compiling testimonies, the authors set up partnerships with interested women's groups in different countries.
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  Realizing decent work for older women workers

  Older Workers, 2000

  Over the course of the next 50 years, older age groups will make up an increasingly larger share of the total global population. Policy-makers have primarily responded to the challenges posed by ageing populations by focusing on reforming social security and health care systems to minimise projected public expenditure.

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