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    The Equal Sharing of Responsibilities Between Women and Men, Including Care-giving in the Context of HIV/AIDS

    2008
    How can we explain why care-giving responsibilities are not equally shared between men and women? Although analysing the private sphere can help account for such inequalities it is also important to understand how wider ideologies and belief systems, and inadequacies of policy and politics, also shape the way care-giving is constructed and determine the gender division of responsibilities.
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    Gendered Home-based Care in South Africa: More Trouble for the Troubled

    African Journals Online - AJOL, 2006
    This study investigates the experiences of primary care-givers of people living with HIV in two semi-rural communities in South Africa. Ethnographic methods were used to collect and analyse data on the gendered nature and consequences of care-giving.
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    Women and Religion in Bangladesh: New Paths

    Open Democracy, 2007
    In south Asia as elsewhere in the world, religion has come to play an increasing role in shaping and reshaping women's lives. This process is a particular challenge to people like Firdous Azim, a feminist who "grew up" intellectually and politically via involvement in the women's movement of the 1980s in Bangladesh.
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    Gender in the Pacific Island States: Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography

    BRIDGE, 2007
    Drawing on 124 diverse resources, this literature review and annotated bibliography provides insights into the culture, geography and history of the Pacific Region and considers how they shape gender relations, roles and norms.
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    Sexuality Matters

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This Bulletin addresses a theme that mainstream development has persistently neglected: sexuality. Why is sexuality a development concern? Because sexuality matters to people, and is an important part of most people's lives. Because development policies and practices are already having a significant - and often negative - impact on sexuality.
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    African News Agency (AFROL) Gender Profile: Ethiopia

    2005
    This African News Agency (Afrol) Gender Profile argues that Ethiopia remains one of Africa's most traditional societies. Although the Ethiopian constitution provides for the equality of women, these provisions are often not applied in practice. Wife beating and marital rape are pervasive social problems.
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    Building Solidarity against Patriarchy

    2004
    Challenging patriarchal beliefs and practices in Bangladesh is a difficult task. There are many cultural values which support patriarchy in Bangladesh, centring on ideas of honour (focusing in particular on the control of women's sexuality), purdah (restrictions on women's mobility), and shame.
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    Thinking outside the Islamic Box: Linking Context and Credit in Muslim West Africa

    2004
    In West Africa, where several countries have large Muslim populations, the majority of women live at the economic margins and experience high levels of poverty. Generalisations are often made about women in Muslim countries, which assume that religion limits women's access to the resources that could help them move beyond poverty and exclusion.
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    The Terms of Women's Empowerment: Islamic Women Activists in Egypt

    American University in Cairo, 2003
    How do Egyptian women find empowerment in Islamism when Islamists are traditionally perceived as the opposers of women's liberation? This study contends that rather than being dominated and oppressed, Islamic women are empowered as a result of their willing submission to higher levels of religious attainment.
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    WTO TRIPS Agreement

    International Labour Organization, 2003
    The TRIPS agreement is an overarching framework for a multilateral approach to intellectual property rights (IPR), in force since 1996. TRIPS means that use of plants, micro-organisms, biotechnological techniques, food and essential drugs can be restricted under patent protection.

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