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  Does Sex Make a Difference: An Equalities Pack for Young People on International Women's Day

  2003

  ?Get a Life!? is one message of this pack which looks at why women are underrepresented in politics in the UK. Young people, particularly girls, are encouraged to get involved in politics and representative bodies in school, community and government. Positive stories are presented of women's and young people's participation in politics.
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  Women Hold Up Half the Sky

  2003

  This series of eight training videos which accompanies the above workbook is for learning about the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its relevance to women's daily lives. These short narrative dramas showing the effects of patriarchy on women and girls are based on real life stories.
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  Passport to Dignity

  2003

  To address women's disadvantage and devise solutions, there is a need to develop a comprehensive systemic analysis of the situation of women which looks at the causes and structures of disadvantage. The human rights framework can provide the tools to do this. It can identify how and where oppressive systems work and help to dismantle them.
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  Gender in Practice: Drawing Lessons from the Experiences in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific

  2001

  This bulletin shows women's rights campaigners some of the ways in which they can effectively influence policy arenas. This is a collection of tools, guidelines and lessons emerging from a two-year WIDE project on implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.
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  Expandir el Concepto de la Ciudadania de las Mujeres: la Vision de Pueblo y la Representaci¢n de las Mujeres Mapuche en Sernam? (?Expanding the Concept of Women's Citizenship: the People's Vision and the Representation of Mapuche Women)

  2000

  What difficulties do indigenous women's groups face in lobbying for gender equality?
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  Human Rights, Advocacy, and the Empowerment of Women: An Education and Action Project in the Yugoslav Successor States?

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 1999

  In Croatia widespread ethnic conflict has led to the large scale erosion of human rights, including women's rights. In this context, Be Active, Be Emancipated - Budi aktivna, Budi emancipirana, or B.a.B.e. - was set up to foster structural change towards ensuring women's full participation in society. B.a.B.e.
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  Paving the Way to Justice: The Experience of Nagorik Uddyog (NU)

  One World Action, 2003

  Enforcing access to justice can be a fundamental and practical way of helping citizens to secure their rights and participation. Women and minority groups are notoriously excluded from legal recourse in formal channels due to both physical constraints - such as cost and location - and social factors like education, confidence and language.
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  Policy Advocacy: The Case of Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA)

  BRIDGE, 2000

  The problem of gender-based violence is significant in Tanzania, and is increasing. The right of women to live free from such violence and their right to protection is fundamental to their citizenship - and the ways in which such protection is fought for is a demonstration of gendered citizenship practice.
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  Gendering Ethnicity: Implications for Democracy Assistance in Kyrgyzstan

  Routledge, 2002

  Since 1991, Western governments have been providing large amounts of democratic assistance to the Former Soviet Union yet few, if any, of the recipient countries have developed into genuine democracies. American and other Western powers expected democracy to prevent economic chaos and political conflict within and among states.
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  Gender and Citizenship in Central America: A different perspective

  2000

  How is women's citizenship currently understood in Central America? This paper provides an overview of gender and citizenship in Central America by placing it in the diverse socio-economic and political histories of the region.

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