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  Men's Participation as Fathers in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A Critical Literature Review with Policy Considerations

  Promundo, 2008

  If men's involvement as fathers is generally positive - for children, women, and men themselves - how can we promote this through policies and programmes? This comprehensive document provides a literature overview and analysis of men's participation as fathers in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
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  Swept under the rug: abuses against domestic workers around the world

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  Women and girls make up the overwhelming majority of domestic workers around the world. In recent years, abuses against domestic workers - typically taking place in private homes and hidden from the public eye - have garnered increased attention. But this has not been matched by concerted government action.
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  Expanding the Care Continuum for HIV/AIDS: Bringing Carers into Focus

  Population Council, 2004

  Who cares for the carers? This question is at the heart of this paper, which sets out to provide a review of existing literature on unpaid care work in the context of HIV and AIDS. What it found was a resounding silence; that the role of women in HIV care outside the health sector is largely taken for granted by policymakers and programme planners.
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  Why Should we Care about Unpaid Care Work?

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  The failure of macroeconomic policies to acknowledge unpaid care work - such as housework, cooking, and caring for children, older people, and sick or disabled people - has a significant impact on women's lives. How can we ensure that unpaid care work is visible and accounted for in macro- and micro-level policy-making?
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  Gender and Migration in Arab States: The Case of Domestic Workers

  BRIDGE, 2004

  Domestic work is the single most important category of employment among women migrants to the Gulf States, as well as to Lebanon and Jordan. As much as 81 percent of all women migrant workers from Sri Lanka and 39 percent from the Philippines to Arab League countries are being attracted by this large 'domestic work' market.
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  "Fifty Voices are Better than One": Combating Social Exclusion and Gender Stereotyping in Gellideg, in the South Wales Valleys

  Oxfam, 2003

  This report tells the story of how the people of Gellideg - a housing estate in Wales - came together to take steps to combat social exclusion and gender stereotyping. Frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to their children, six local women formed the Gellideg Foundation Group.
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  Gender-neutral, Gender-blind, or Gender-sensitive Budgets? Changing the Conceptual Framework to Include Women's Empowerment and the Economy of Care

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  Budgets are often assumed to be gender-neutral, whereas in reality they tend to be gender blind - failing to take into account the fact that men and women have different roles, responsibilities and resources in society. This failure leads to further discrimination against and disempowerment of women. One of the major failures of budgets is their neglect of the unpaid 'care economy'.

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