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  Institutional Change and Accountability: Notes on a Strategy

  2003

  Why is accountability to women important in relation to human security? In order for organisations to achieve true human security they need to redress gender inequity and support women's rights. To realise women's rights, they must ensure the active participation of women and also work on changing institutions (i.e. families, communities, markets and the state).
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  Our Common Interest, Report of the Commission for Africa

  Commission for Africa, 2005

  This year promises to be a decisive one for Africa. In 2005, the United Nations (UN) will conduct a five-year review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to halve world poverty (most of which is in Africa) by 2015.
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  Rotten fruit: Tesco profits as women workers pay a high price

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Tesco recently announced record profits of ?2 billion. But according to this study by ActionAid in South Africa, thousands of women casual workers growing fruit on farms accredited by Tesco are being exploited. Findings showed that farm workers are paid below the minimum wage, are exposed to pesticides, suffer food insecurity, and have poor quality housing.
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  Intersecting Protections, Migrating Women: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice [New York University Law School], 2004

  With the growing feminisation of migration comes an increasing focus on the abuses women migrants face in sending and receiving countries. Much of the effort to combat these violations centres on urging states to ratify the Migrant Workers Convention (MWC), which came into force in 2003.
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  Wage Discrimination by Gender in Morocco's Urban Labour Force: Evidence and Implications for Industrial and Labour Policy (Chapter in Women's Employment in the Textile Manufacturing Sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco)

  2002

  Gender-based wage discrimination is linked to trade performance and competitiveness. This paper argues that the low-wage export strategy based on female labour needs to be rethought if Morocco is to maintain its share of textile exports in the global economy.
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  Gender and Employment in Moroccan Textile Industries (Chapter in Women's Employment in the Textile Manufacturing Sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco)

  2002

  Is working in the factory liberating for women, or simply another area where she suffers from gender inequality? This chapter argues that unequal gender relations within the family and society are carried into the factory and reproduced there.
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  Achievements, gaps and challenges in linking the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals: report of the expert group meeting

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  Independent experts were brought together by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) in Azerbaijan (7-10 February 2005) to identify strategic entry-points in the 2005 review processes to link the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Gender Mainstreaming in Development and Trade Policy and Practice: Learning from Austria, Belgium, and the UK

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2003

  In its longstanding commitment to promoting gender equality, the international community recognises the importance of gender mainstreaming. This research study examines how far these commitments were translated into practice at a national level within the European Union (EU), using Austria, Belgium and the UK as case studies.
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  Beijing + 10 Review: A Feminist Strategy for 2004-05, A Working Paper for NGOS on How to Move Forward

  2004

  The world has changed since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) was agreed in 1995. Informed by consultations on the future of women's human rights, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) proposes that NGOs use a 'matrix of interlocking forces' as a critical framework for analysis of progress and obstacles to implementing the BPfA.
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  NGOs as Partners on the Way to Accelerate the Implementation of the Platform for Action: Report of the NGO Forum

  2004

  In December 2004 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) held a ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). In preparation for this meeting the NGO Working Group on Women for the UNECE region organised an NGO Forum.

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