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  Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  Based on the findings of UNRISD's ongoing gender research and over 60 specially commissioned studies, this report analyses the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. Whatever their intentions, these reforms had significant and mixed implications for gender relations and women's well-being. The report is divided into four key sections.
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  Globalising Women's Rights: Confronting Unequal Development Between the UN Rights Framework and the WTO Trade Agreements

  BRIDGE, 2004

  In its work on the intersection between development and trade policies, Network Women in Development Europe (WIDE) recognised a growing lack of coherence between on the one hand, the human rights framework adopted by the United Nations (UN) and elaborated in various international conventions and on the other hand the commercial and corporate rights protected in free trade agreements.
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  Shadow Report to CEDAW

  2001

  Sri Lanka ratified CEDAW in 1981 without any reservations. In 2001, NGOs participated in producing this shadow report. Traditionally Sri Lanka has fared well in terms of basic social indicators like life expectancy, literacy, school enrolment, infant mortality, child mortality, maternal mortality and composite qualitative indices such as Human Development Index and Gender Development Index.
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 15: Gender and ICTs

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Dramatic changes brought about by information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities the world over. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations. This issue of In Brief looks at the relationship between ICTs and gender equality.
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  Gender and ICTs: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Mainstream perceptions of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet, are invariably positive, where barriers are understood to be technical rather than social. The reality is that the use of ICTs is governed by existing power relations, and vast numbers of people are excluded from the benefits of these technologies.
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  Gender and ICTs: Overview Report

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  New technologies in the information and communications arena, especially the Internet, have been seen as ushering in a new age. And yet, access to new ICTs is still a faraway reality for the vast majority of people.
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  Gender and ICTs Cutting Edge Pack

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Who benefits from information and communication technology (ICTs)? ICTs have created new economic and social opportunities the world over. The positive changes brought about by ICTs, however, have not touched all of humanity. Their use continues to be governed by existing power relations where women frequently experience relative disadvantage.
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  BRIDGE Report 50: Economic Reform and Poverty: A Gender Analysis

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1997

  Economic reform in many developing countries is associated with structural adjustment programmes supported by international financial institutions (IFIs). Many countries have experienced increases in poverty or greater inequality. There is increasing evidence of negative effects of structural adjustment on women, particularly on poor women.
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.

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