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  Development and Self-Help Movement of Women with Disabilities

  Independent Living Institute, 2002

  In Japan, women continue to have inferior status to men and this is compounded when women and girls have disabilities. Few economic opportunities means a higher propensity to poverty and this drastically reduces disabled women's and girls' health and well-being.
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  Confronting the Sexual Abuse of Women with Disabilities

  National Electronic Network on Violence Against Women, 2005

  The false assumption that women with disabilities are not sexual beings has not freed them from sexual abuse. Yet the important research on the sexual abuse of women often ignores disability while disability research rarely considers the sexual abuse of women with disabilities. This paper examines the shortcomings of research methods in the United States.
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  A Voice of Our Own: Advocacy by Women with Disability in Australia and the Pacific

  Routledge, 2005

  Women with disabilities are largely invisible within women's rights and disability rights agendas. They do not generally benefit from international human rights laws and agreements, or from development processes. This is particularly evident for women in the Pacific region and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
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  Strengthening Women's Rights Organisations through Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Gender, Disability and Development Institute

  2006

  How can women's organisations include women with disabilities in all areas of their work? According to this article, inclusion is easy. Based on information gathered at Mobility International (MI) USA's Gender, Disability and Development Institute (GDDI), this paper recommends that organisations start with MIUSA's 'Checklist for Inclusion' which provides a simple self-assessment guide.
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  Disabled Women and Independent Life in Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Russia, South Africa and Uganda

  Disability World, 2000

  Disabled women are discriminated against because they are women and also because they are disabled. Disabled women have played a very important part in the disabled people's movement since its inception. And yet, their contribution is often invisibilised or not properly acknowledged, in some occasions it is even not welcome.
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  Women and Disabilities. Good Practice

  Instituto de Migraciones y Servicios Sociales, 2000

  Disabled women are a heavily discriminated group. In order for them to enjoy equal opportunities, discriminatory policies and practices need to be abolished. This document describes the experiences of four European initiatives of disabled women which are transformative and innovative.
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  A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities

  Hesperian Foundation, 2007

  Written in collaboration with women with disabilities in over 40 developing and developed countries, this handbook aims to help women and girls with disabilities to care for themselves; improve their general health, capabilities and self-reliance; and participate more effectively in their communities.
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  Gender dimensions of intellectual property and traditional medicinal knowledge

  The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2007

  Trade in medicinal and aromatic plants is big business. How can Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect female practitioners of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge (TMK)?
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  Critical Areas, Issues and Topics in Sexual and Reproductive Health Indicator Development: An Annotated Bibliography

  Ford Foundation, 2002

  Although numerous indicators have been developed for measuring sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programme performance, there has been no international consensus regarding the most relevant indicators.
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  Why the Development Industry Should Get Over its Obsession with Bad Sex and Start to Think About Pleasure

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  The development industry has emphasised the dangers of sex and sexuality - in relation to population control, disease and violence. This negative approach to sex has been filtered through a view of gender which stereotypes men as predators, women as victims, and fails to recognise the existence of transgender people.

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