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    Gendered Policy Research in the Cashew Sector in Mozambique

    BRIDGE, 2003
    This paper explores some thorny issues in feminist research. One set of issues revolves around the tension between the need to analyse structural conditions of gender subordination while avoiding stereotypical representations of women as passive victims.
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    Globalisation Hurts Women more than Men

    BRIDGE, 2003
    A common myth is that globalisation hurts women more than men. This myth is based on two other related myths, firstly that men control women's incomes at household level, secondly that whereas men are selfish, women are weak, maternal and generous, and hence devote most of their earnings to the needs of their children.
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    Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

    1998
    How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.
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    Steps for Effective Advocacy

    2003
    How can NGOs work to ensure that governments are implementing international law to protect women's rights? International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific have released this practical guide for NGOs who wish to use the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to hold their governments accountable for upholding and enforcing women's rights.
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    States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance

    Zed Books Limited, 2000
    How is conflict a gendered phenomenon? What is the role of women's resistance in responses to the gendered impacts of conflict? The editors argue that "conflict is endemic in human societies", and that most conflict has a gender dimension. The book links global processes and the causes and consequences of armed conflict experienced on national, local and individual levels.
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    Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives

    University of California Press, 2003
    Images and themes of conflict are not hard to find in modern society. Signs of the times include films that equate action with war; condoms designed with a camouflage pattern; fashions that celebrate brass buttons and epaulettes; and tomato soup that contains pasta in the shape of Star Wars weapons. These images contribute to militaristic values that shape our culture in times of war and peace.
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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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    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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    Arab Feminism at the Millennium

    Chicago Journals, 2000
    In what way has globalisation influenced the interaction between Arab feminists and current nationalist and Islamic movements? How has the colonial legacy and present Western/United States political, social and cultural dominance shape of Arab women's identities both inside and outside the Arab World?
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    'East Meets West Feminist Translation Group': A Conversation Between Two Participants

    Mots Pluriels, 2003
    The build up to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women(FWCW) in Beijing 1995 opened new possibilities for women's organising in China. Through the eyes of two participants the story is told of the "East Meets West Feminist Translation Group", an informal but influential women's organisation set up in 1994 in Beijing.

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