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  Preventing Discrimination, Exploitation and Abuse of Women Migrant Workers: An Information Guide?, Booklet 4: Working and Living Abroad,

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  Why are women migrant domestic workers vulnerable to discrimination, exploitation and abuse? What actions are needed to prevent violations of their basic human rights? This clear and practical information booklet outlines the main types of discrimination, exploitation and abuse experienced by women migrants, with a focus on migrant domestic workers.
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  Child Prostitution: the Commercial Exploitation of Children

  2008

  It is clear that child prostitution is a problem in the Czech Republic, with reports of internal trafficking of Czech children from areas of low employment near border regions with Germany and Austria, and of girls from the former Soviet Union, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East being trafficked to the Czech Republic for sexual purposes.
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  Marriage, Motherhood and Masculinity in the Global Economy: Reconfiguration of Personal and Economic Life

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  How are women and men dealing with the 'feminisation' of the global labour force in the face of the widespread prevalence of male 'breadwinner' ideologies and the apparent threat to male authority represented by women's earnings?
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  Bottom of the ladder: exploitation and abuse of girl domestic workers in Guinea

  Human Rights Watch, 2007

  Worldwide, domestic work is the largest employment category for children - especially girls. While other children in the family attend school, these girls are often denied an education. Many of them work up to 18 hours a day. They may also suffer beatings and sexual harassment or abuse.
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  Something more than Stories. Migration and Microcredit

  2006

  What is the reality of self-employed migrant women in Spain? Has microcredit helped them achieve a better life? This book tells the stories of 14 self-employed migrant women who are supported by microcredit funds given to them by different financial organisations in Spain.
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  State of world population 2006: a passage to hope; women and international migration

  United Nations Population Fund, 2006

  Produced in tandem with the United Nations High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, this report emphasises the positive impacts that women migrants have had on reducing poverty through sending remittances. At the same time it warns that millions of female migrants face hazards in the form of trafficking and other types of exploitation.
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  Participatory monitoring: guidelines for practitioners in the fight against human trafficking

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Participatory Monitoring (PM) tools are used as far as possible in the International Labour Organisation's project to combat trafficking in children and women in the Mekong sub-region. This toolkit, based on materials field-tested by project staff, has been designed to help monitor the project's progress, track trafficking and identify good practice.
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  Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2003

  Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.
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  Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation between Venezuela and Ecuador

  Survivors Rights International, 2003

  Why does trafficking for sexual exploitation occur, and what can be done to combat it?
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  Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Japan

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  Every year thousands of women are trafficked into Japan from countries in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Lured by the promise of better jobs and salaries, women arrive in Japan to find themselves in debt to organised crime groups and forced to work in Japan's sex industry.

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