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  Luchando por la Justicia: las Mujeres Peruanas en la B£squeda de Los desaparecidos [Fighting forJustice: Peruvian Women in the Search for the Disappeared]

  BRIDGE, 2003

  How has a gender analysis been used in areas of post-conflict? In Peru, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) was set up following two decades of political violence spanning the period from 1980 to 2000.
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  Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect: Women Speak out about Conflict

  Panos Institute, London, 1995

  The survival struggles of ordinary women - whether as fighters, rape survivors, camp inhabitants, mothers or peacemakers - are highlighted in the accounts of conflict situations covered in this report. As part of the process of compiling testimonies, the authors set up partnerships with interested women's groups in different countries.
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  Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002

  This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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  Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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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 Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2003

  At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 governments pledged collective responsibility to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first being to halve world poverty by 2015, and the third to "Promote gender equality and empower women". This book provides evidence as to why promoting gender equality is essential for halving world poverty and realising all eight MDGs.
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  Accountability to Women in Development Spending - Experiments in Service-delivery Audits at the Local Level

  BRIDGE, 2002

  What matters to consumers of public services is local-level accountability. Local monitoring and auditing is the only way to ensure commitments on paper at the local and national level - particularly in areas of concern to women - are translated into practice.
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  Some Research Gaps in Gender Budget Work from an Advocacy Perspective

  BRIDGE, 2002

  Gender Budget Initiatives can be an important tool for claiming resources, however are they restricted to research and policy papers? This paper takes a look at gender budget work from an advocacy perspective - stating that budgets are nine parts politics and one part information.
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  An Introduction to the General Agreement on Trade in Services for Gender Advocates

  2001

  This short piece provides an introduction to the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). GATS is problematic because it encourages the privatisation of public services and amenities such as water, healthcare and education; it threatens to overrule domestic laws where these are perceived to hinder free trade; and the propositions within the agreement remain untested.
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  Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

  2001

  Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women.

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