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  Gender and Citizenship: Overview Report

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Feminists and women's rights activists have sought to reframe citizenship from a gender perspective and to show how struggles for women's rights must be seen as citizenship struggles that affect everyone in society rather than ?minority interests?. This idea of citizenship has been used to tackle exclusion on the basis of gender, for example with political quotas and affirmative action.
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  Gender and Citizenship Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  There are those for whom citizenship is a site of achievement, of power and validation of their place in the world - a way of achieving positive change and gaining a better standard of living for all groups.
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  Gender and Citizenship: Learning from South Africa?

  Agenda Feminist Publishing, 2001

  In what ways does political transformation mean a change in meanings and practice of citizenship - in the relationships between individuals and the state? This paper discusses the experiences of women, particularly black women, of citizenship in South Africa, where the new administration promised a new politics based on civil society and universal citizenship.
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  Governing for Equity, Gender, Citizenship and Governance

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2003

  This publication comes out of the Gender, Citizenship and Governance programme of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Netherlands. The project aimed to develop good practice in changing governance institutions to promote gender equality, enhance citizen participation and build accountability of public administration systems.
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  Sexual Rights: Much has been said, much remains to be resolved

  2002

  In the ongoing United Nations (UN) debate on human rights and sexuality, sexual rights have been conceptualised in largely negative ways - in relation to issues of protection against pregnancy, rape, disease and violence. This paper calls for an inclusion of more positive aspects of sexual rights.
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  Gender Budgets and Beyond: Feminist Fiscal Policy in the Context of Globalisation

  BRIDGE, 2003

  This article is part of a special issue of Oxfam's Gender and Development journal entitled Women Reinventing Globalisation, bringing together insights drawn from the Ninth International Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). It focuses on the gender-blindness of macro-economic and fiscal policies.
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  Alternative Report of Cladem Peru on the Implementation in Peru of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  2002

  This shadow report, led by The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights -Peru (CLADEM-Peru), contributes to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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  CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of State Parties: Peru

  United Nations, 2001

  Peru's fifth submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) outlines the status of women in Peru. The government has faced difficulties changing attitudes that discriminate against women.
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  Gender profile: Peru

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2002

  What is the condition of women in Peru? This gender profile by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offers a statistical overview of the condition of urban and rural women with respect to unemployment, status in the workplace, life expectancy and working and living conditions. Poverty is an ongoing concern and half the population continues to subsist below the poverty line.
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  International Feminism and the Women's Movement in Egypt, 1904-1923 A Reappraisal of Categories and Legacies

  2003

  How have Egyptian feminists promoted women's rights? This paper looks at the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU) in the fight for women's right to vote in Egypt in the early twentieth century. The EFU had much in common with the international women's movement then mobilising around women's right to vote.

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