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    Advocating for Abortion Access: Eleven Country Studies

    Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2001
    What factors influence a country's legal position on abortion? This publication is
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    3rd Pacific Ministers Meeting on Women, June 2007 & Final Decisions of The 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women, May 2007

    Secretariat of the Pacific Community,, 2007
    The 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women was attended by Ministers and officials from Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs) holding responsibilities for women's ministries and departments, and development partners.
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    Expanding Access to Safe Abortion: Strategies for Action

    1998
    Agreements reached in international conferences on women, population, and human rights, as well as human rights treaties, are powerful but under-utilised tools for action to promote women's access to safe abortion services.
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    Abortion and Young People

    International Programme on Sexuality of Rutgers Nisso Groep, 2007
    What is abortion? What are the types of induced abortion and how is it done? What are the risks involved? Are other young people also trying to have an abortion? These are some of the questions addressed in this practical and accessible brochure which seeks to provide correct information to young people, without fear or guilt, and to dispel the myths that exist around abortion.
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    International Labour Organisation Subregional Office for Central America, Haiti, Panama and Dominican Republic

    International Labour Organization, 2007
    The website of the subregional office of the International Labour Office (ILO) for Central America, Haiti, Panama and Domenican Republic has a special section on gender issues. It covers recent news and articles from the region, gender specific publications on labour rights, employment, statistics, training tools, migration and labour norms and rights.
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    Women Today Website

    Mujeres Hoy, 2007
    Mujeres Hoy is a website which provides gender related information and links to initiatives in Spain and Latin America. A section of their portal is dedicated to labour rights and offers abstracts on a wide range of articles, case studies and papers with links to the original documents.
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    The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement 'Maria Elena Cuadra' (MEC)

    Maria Elena Cuadra, 2007
    This movement supports women to participate fully and equally in Nicaraguan society by offering a space for reflection, capacity building and organisation. They focus on issues related to women's economic empowerment and labour rights but also work on other related issues like gender-based violence, poverty eradication and the environment.
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    Iraq: The Status of Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq's De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International Legal Standards

    Iraq Legal Development Project, 2005
    Although women in Iraq have a 25 percent quota in political representation, they still face considerable obstacles in their quest to secure their human rights. This paper assesses the degree to which Iraqi women in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto) enjoy the protection of their rights as guaranteed under international agreements.
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    Gender-Sensitive Reporting in Iraq - Workshop Findings Report

    Article 19, 2007
    Free and gender-aware reporting in Iraq is currently under threat. The media faces restrictions from the government and as a result women's rights issues are not widely reported. This paper, a report on a workshop held for Iraqi journalists, outlines why it is important for a democracy to have a free media and why women's human rights issues in the country need better coverage.
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    Access to safe abortion: an essential strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals to improve maternal health, promote gender equality and reduce poverty

    Millennium Project, 2007
    International leaders should support reforms of national laws on abortion in line with the commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, and with the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal mortality (the World Health Organization estimates that 13 percent of all maternal deaths globally are caused by unsafe abortion).

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