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    Building legal frameworks to address femicide In Latin America

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    By reforming national penal codes and enacting special laws, Latin American countries are taking first steps towards eradicating femicide in the region.
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    Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Peru’s ProJoven programme has successfully supported younger and more economically disadvantaged generations to gain the necessary qualifications to secure better quality jobs.
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    Labour market information programmes

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    How can Labour Market Information Programmes improve the coverage, quality and efficiency of labour markets?
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    Access to justice for survivors of sexual violence in conflicts: three Latin American approaches

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    What progress has been achieved in Latin America in the struggle for justice for women victims of sexual violence in contexts of conflict? In what ways have judicial institutions and grassroots organisations in Latin America learned from experiences in other regions of the world? What are the key features of more integral approaches to access to justice?
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    Do joint land titles induce Peruvian women to take part in decision-making?

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2012
    Peru enforced joint titles between spouses and cohabitants in their land formalization process in 57 percent of the 1.5 million titles issued to date. We find a significant empowerment effect in a survey of 1,280 households, interviewing both spouses jointly and separately to disclose influence on household decision-making, in line intrahousehold bargaining theory on threat point of divorce.
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    Land and women empowerment - Methodology and summary report of the PeruLandGender household survey

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2012
    Joint land titling in Peru implied a defacto transfer of property from men to women. This project conducted a survey of 1280 household to measure the impact on women participation in household decision making. The following report describes the methodological approach and summarizes the main results which indicate a positive effect on women empowerment.
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    Grassroots speakout on UN Women: outcome document

    Huairou Commission, 2011
    On March 2nd, grassroots women leaders from around the world voiced their key recommendations and experiences to Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Dr. Michelle Bachelet, and other representatives of UN Women and governments. A supportive audience of leaders of the global women’s movement and gender advocates filled the room beyond capacity.
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    Transport, the missing link?: id21 insights, issue 63

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    What do poor rural farmers do when the rainy season cuts off their access to markets? What do women in labour do when the nearest health clinic is 30 kilometres away and transport is virtually non-existent? How can girls attend school if the journey isn’t safe?
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    Feminists on the Frontline: Case Studies of Resisting and Challenging Fundamentalisms

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008
    This is a collection of case studies about women and men around the world who have stood up to reject religious fundamentalism. In 2008 AWID launched a call for proposals to document the strategies of women's rights activists in this area. The case studies presented here are drawn from a wide range of religious and geographical contexts.
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    Closing the gender land gap: the effects of land-titling for women in Peru

    Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2009
    This report explores Peruvian land formalisation law, arguing that it is gender neutral. The paper examines land ownership in Peru from a gender perspective, and introduces the following findings:

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