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    Violence and the centrality of home: women's experience of insecurity in the Karachi conflict

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002
    The connections between home and violence are often analyzed and understood in the context of domestic violence. For many women, the sanctuary of home is also often the site of violence where they are physically attacked by family members. Such analyses form the subject matter of sociology, anthropology and women’s studies.
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    Factors determining the labor force participation decision of educated married women in a district of Punjab

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002
    Female labor force participation (FLFP) has an important contribution in socioeconomic development by providing a second income and therefore reducing poverty. For this study we have defined FLFP as an act of participating in productive activities for the generation of cash income.
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    The partitions of self Mohajir women's sense of identity and nationhood

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2002
    The word Mohajir has been used to denote a migrant, which suggests a tentative, transient identity based on movement, with no emotional relation to the land to which one migrates, and a sense of loss of the land from which one moved. The word has interesting connotations that influence the group’s sense of belonging as well as suffering.
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    Self-selection or labour market segmentation? evidence from Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1992
    Traditionally analysis of the distribution of earnings have been concerned primarily with the measurement and explanation of observed inequality in the personal earnings of individuals. Notable examples are Mincer (1974), Psacharopoulos (1977), and Psacharopoulos and Layard (1979).
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    Women and poverty: salient findings from a gendered analysis of a quasi-anthropological study in rural Punjab and Sindh

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2004
    The report is an analysis based on a qualitative investigation of poverty in Pakistan by means of in-depth studies of six villages in six different agro-ecological zones in Punjab and Sindh.
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    My rights, my voice: annual progress report 2013

    Oxfam, 2014
    My Rights, My Voice (MRMV) engages marginalized children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries. The 2013 Annual Progress Report provides an overview of the second year of this innovative three year programme and of the MRMV Global Programme Framework.
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    Poverty and social impact analysis of stipend program for secondary school girls of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2012
    This study was initiated to carry out poverty and social impact analysis of the project titled: Stipend Program for Secondary School Girls of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The study mainly has the following key objectives to deal with:
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    A place for women? gender as a social and political construct in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2009
    Any attempt to examine gender relations in the Pakistani context demands frankness free of all prejudice in looking at the evolution of the country since its independence. First of all, it requires recognition of the heavy burden inherited from the colonial period.
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    A sectoral and process oriented approach to the human rights agenda in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1994
    The human rights agenda in Pakistan is presently based on the assumption that all sectors of the society requiring human rights protection, vis-a-vis their vulnerability to human rights violation, have been pre-determined and the necessary processes for their defence established. Pre-dominant in these groups and communities are women, children and religious and ethnic minorities.
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    Masculinities, conflict and peacebuilding: perspectives on men through a gender lens

    Saferworld, 2014
    Research tells us that socially constructed gender norms which associate masculinity with power, violence and control can play a role in driving conflict and insecurity. Examining the reasons behind this, ‘Masculinities, conflict and peacebuilding’ aims to advance discussions about integrating a masculinities perspective into peacebuilding policy and practice.

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