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  Institutional Change and Accountability: Notes on a Strategy

  2003

  Why is accountability to women important in relation to human security? In order for organisations to achieve true human security they need to redress gender inequity and support women's rights. To realise women's rights, they must ensure the active participation of women and also work on changing institutions (i.e. families, communities, markets and the state).
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  Our Common Interest, Report of the Commission for Africa

  Commission for Africa, 2005

  This year promises to be a decisive one for Africa. In 2005, the United Nations (UN) will conduct a five-year review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to halve world poverty (most of which is in Africa) by 2015.
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  Rotten fruit: Tesco profits as women workers pay a high price

  ActionAid International, 2005

  Tesco recently announced record profits of ?2 billion. But according to this study by ActionAid in South Africa, thousands of women casual workers growing fruit on farms accredited by Tesco are being exploited. Findings showed that farm workers are paid below the minimum wage, are exposed to pesticides, suffer food insecurity, and have poor quality housing.
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  Plan of Action for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women by 2005

  National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam, 2002

  The National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam (NCFAW) developed this Plan of Action to guide implementation of the first five years of the ?National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam by 2010?. It follows the format of the strategy - with coverage of the overall objective and its five specific objectives, including implementation arrangements.
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  Intersecting Protections, Migrating Women: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice [New York University Law School], 2004

  With the growing feminisation of migration comes an increasing focus on the abuses women migrants face in sending and receiving countries. Much of the effort to combat these violations centres on urging states to ratify the Migrant Workers Convention (MWC), which came into force in 2003.
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  Wage Discrimination by Gender in Morocco's Urban Labour Force: Evidence and Implications for Industrial and Labour Policy (Chapter in Women's Employment in the Textile Manufacturing Sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco)

  2002

  Gender-based wage discrimination is linked to trade performance and competitiveness. This paper argues that the low-wage export strategy based on female labour needs to be rethought if Morocco is to maintain its share of textile exports in the global economy.
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  Gender Assessment for USAID/Morocco

  2003

  The new Country Strategy Plan (CSP) 2004-8 for USAID/Morocco has one strategic objective - to increase economic opportunities. This gender assessment provides an overview of the key gender issues in the CSP target sectors and sub-sectors.
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  Gender and Employment in Moroccan Textile Industries (Chapter in Women's Employment in the Textile Manufacturing Sectors of Bangladesh and Morocco)

  2002

  Is working in the factory liberating for women, or simply another area where she suffers from gender inequality? This chapter argues that unequal gender relations within the family and society are carried into the factory and reproduced there.
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  Gendered school experiences: the impact on retention and achievement in Botswana and Ghana

  Department for International Development, UK, 2005

  What is the impact of the environment on gendered patterns of school retention and achievement? This study explores how the school environment in junior secondary schools in Botswana and Ghana perpetuates gender differentiation in students' educational retention and levels of achievement.
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  Achievements, gaps and challenges in linking the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals: report of the expert group meeting

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  Independent experts were brought together by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) in Azerbaijan (7-10 February 2005) to identify strategic entry-points in the 2005 review processes to link the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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