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  Best practice guidelines for creating a culture of gender equality in the private sector

  Commission on Gender Equality, South Africa, 1998

  This guide is designed to highlight and promote the involvement of private business in achieving gender equality, including business leaders, policymakers, human resource managers and other business specialists.
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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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  Gender mainstreaming in trade and industry: a reference manual for governments and other stakeholders

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003

  Gender mainstreaming in the trade sector entails the equal participation and consideration of women and men in every aspect of trade, including in policy formulation, decision-making, in trade operations, access to opportunities for work, and upgrading of skills and career development.
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  Women in Bolivarian Venezuela Part 1: Women and the Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution

  Venezuela Analysis, 2005

  What contribution has the Bolivarian Revolution (socialist manifestation of the ideals of Simon Bolivar), combined with women's civil society activism, made to the status of women in Venezuela? Tracing the women's movement from 1958, with the fall of Perez Jimenez's dictatorship, this document sketches activities, triumphs and challenges of achieving gender equality in Venezuela.
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  Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation between Venezuela and Ecuador

  Survivors Rights International, 2003

  Why does trafficking for sexual exploitation occur, and what can be done to combat it?
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  Empowering Women through the Policy Process: The Making of Health Policy in South Africa

  Oxford University Press, New York, 2000

  An important though poorly recognised way by which women can become empowered is by playing a role in the policy-making process itself.
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  Patriarchal Violence - an Attack on Human Security: a Broad Survey of Measures to Combat Patriarchal Violence and Oppression, Particularly Acts Committed in the Name of Honour Directed at Women, Homosexuals, Bisexuals and Transgender Persons.

  Government Offices of Sweden, 2006

  Understandings of patriarchal violence usually focus on male violence against women. However, this paper links patriarchy and the violence and oppression directed towards lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) persons. Patriarchy is based on perceptions of male supremacy and within this power structure the norm of the heterosexual male is dominant.
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  Working with Men on Gender, Sexuality, Violence and Health: Trainer's Manual

  Sahaj, Sahayog India and Tathapi, 2005

  This manual is a resource for trainers working with men and boys around issues of citizenship, rights, gender, sexuality, violence and health in India. The content is guided by a social justice and equity perspective and is 'male-centred' in its approach. There are six distinct modules: Equity and Equality, Gender, Sexuality, Health, Violence, and Facilitation Skills.
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  Gender mainstreaming strategy for the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project

  Siyanda, 2003

  International experience has demonstrated that gender must be addressed if HIV/ AIDS prevention and care is to be effective. Overall, the China-UK HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project is moving in the right direction on gender by aiming for participation and empowerment of primary stakeholders.
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  Human development and Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) –Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women: mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  This report examines the status of women in Sudan, using the third Millennium Development Goal of women's empowerment as the framework. It begins with an overview of some key definitions, including gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment.

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