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    Gendered dimensions of land and rural livelihoods: the case of new settler farmer displacement at Nuanetsi Ranch, Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe

    Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2012
    The biofuel boom has become a core issue in Zimbabwean land and development debates. Biofuels require large tracts of land for production; and the land acquisition programmes by the various state, non-state actors and individuals have been termed ‘land grabbing’.
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    The role of religion in women's movements: the campaign for the domestication of CEDAW in Nigeria

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2011
    In 1985, the Nigerian government ratified the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). In 1998, following the return to democracy after 30 years of military rule, a movement of civil society organisations formed to promote the domestication of CEDAW into Nigerian law.
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    Enterprising Women: expanding opportunities in Africa

    World Bank, 2013
    What are the gender dimensions of entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa? Part of the Africa Development Forum series, this book is about expanding non-farm entrepreneurship opportunities for women in Sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the extent of gender differences in economic activities pursued by female and male entrepreneurs, and the returns they receive.
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    Unhappily ever after: Slow and uneven progress in the fight against early marriage

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    Nearly one-third of girls in developing countries marry before adulthood. Given the developing world’s ‘youth bulge’, this means that in absolute numbers it is likely that more girls are at risk of early marriage now – more than ever before.
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    African Women’s Decade 2010-2020: 2013 annual review

    2014
    Since the Continental Launch of the African Women’s Decade (AWD) by the African Union (AU) in 2010, have African women’s rights advanced? Make Every Woman Count’s annual review of the AWD aims to evaluate the progress, or lack thereof, being made to include and promote the rights of women at country, regional, and Pan-African levels.
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    ARROW resource kit

    Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women, 2014
    This Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) publication, the ARROW Resource Kit (ARK), is a compilation of the most effective governance and management tools and resources that ARROW has developed over the past 20 years.
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    NGO CSW Outcome Document North America and Europe

    Women's UN Report Network, 2014
    While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are typically viewed in relation to the Global South, this document applies them to North America and Europe under the premise that all countries have an obligation to meet the goals and be held accountable for development within, and outside, their own borders.
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    Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (UN General Assembly, sixty-eighth session)

    United Nations General Assembly, 2013
    Despite being a major barrier to the enjoyment of full economic and social rights for women, the issue of unpaid care work has received little attention from states, and even human rights organisations.
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    No revolutions without equality and justice: the struggle for women’s rights in rethinking development in the Arab region

    The World We Want, 2012
    This article considers policy practice in the Arab region, highlighting some key areas for consideration in future policy making in the region.
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    Factsheet: The Philippines

    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, 2011
    This fact sheet by UN Women presents an overview of the situation women currently face in the Philippines, as well as the various ways in which UN Women has been supporting governments and civil society.

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