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  Information Leaflets for People with Sexual Problems

  Outsiders, 2006

  This series of 15 short leaflets provides clear information and practical advice for people with disabilities in the UK.
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  Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism and Sexual Diversity

  Pluto Press, 2005

  Is it possible to move beyond the male-female gender binary system?' This book begins with this question.
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  Shadow Report to the Fifth Periodic Report of the Government of Bangladesh

  Steps Towards Development, 2004

  Has the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh delivered on their promises as a signatory of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
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  Trade liberalisation policy

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  Trade liberalisation (decreasing restrictions on trade) has taken place through several policy frameworks over the past ten years. In addition to the rules of the WTO, trade liberalisation has also been a key factor of World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes. Advocates of such policies argue that trade liberalisation should increase a country's growth and incomes.
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  Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2003

  Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.
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  WTO TRIPS Agreement

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  The TRIPS agreement is an overarching framework for a multilateral approach to intellectual property rights (IPR), in force since 1996. TRIPS means that use of plants, micro-organisms, biotechnological techniques, food and essential drugs can be restricted under patent protection.
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  Action research: garment industry supply chains

  Women Working Worldwide, 2003

  This manual, aimed at researchers, gives practical guidance on how to conduct action research that will promote and support workers' rights, focusing on garment industry supply chains.
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  Concluding comments of the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); Venezuela

  United Nations, 2006

  Recognising and commending the Venezuelan Constitution, 1999, which establishes the equality of rights between women and men, this document makes recommendations to the State regarding implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, which was ratified by Venezuela in 2002.
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  Unfinished Transitions: Women and the Gendered Development of Democracy in Venezuela, 1936-1996

  Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000

  This analysis of Venezuelan women's organising traces a sixty year struggle to democratise political practice and represent women's interests. It addresses some of the prevailing issues of Latin American democratisation: why did women have difficulty participating in regimes they fought to install, and how did they seek inclusion?
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  Measuring Women's Empowerment: Participation and Rights in Civil, Political, Social, Economic, and Cultural Domains

  Blackwell Synergy, 2005

  There have been many attempts to measure women's empowerment in the development field, but these have had various shortcomings. There is confusion over concepts, a lack of disaggregated data and limited information on household dynamics. Measurements and indicators to date have focused more on civil and political rights, what are known as ?first generation?

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