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    Unsafe Abortion

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    What is the cost of unsafe abortion-related ill-health and death? This was the subject of a meeting held at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) in April 2007. The meeting reviewed recent work estimating the cost of unsafe abortion. Participants also discussed the economic costs to health systems, individuals and households, and the links between unsafe abortion and poverty.
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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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    Women's Experiences of Economic Liberalisation: Confronting Challenges, Developing Opportunities

    International Gender and Trade Network, 2006
    Although agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have often been devastating to women, their families and their communities in the United States, relatively few American women have heard of them or are debating their impact. In 2002, the Center of Concern decided to encourage women in the U.S. to begin this discussion.
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    Promoting gender equality in new aid modalities and partnerships

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006
    As efforts intensify to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, developed and developing countries have committed themselves to new partnerships and aid modalities.
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    Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: Chiquita, women banana workers and structural inequalities

    Siyanda, 2004
    How can multilateral companies improve labour conditions for women workers? This paper focuses on the multinational Chiquita, and on its sourcing of bananas from Latin America. Over the last decade, Chiquita has taken a number of steps to rectify a bad public image and has improved its ethical performance through the development of a comprehensive CSR policy.
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    Made by women: gender, the global garment industry and the movement for women worker’s rights

    Clean Clothes Campaign, 2006
    Gender influences labour practices in countless ways - ideas about the jobs women can do, how they should do them, their wages, their relationship to employers and the law. This publication aims to provide a clear understanding of the key role that gender plays in shaping the issues that labour rights activists in the garment industry are tackling.
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    Social Corporate Responsibility and the Role of the Women's Movement

    Women's Human Right's Net, 2004
    International corporations continue to move production zones to developing countries to benefit from cheap labour and poor standards. Conditions often include low wages, long hours, unsanitary and dangerous working conditions, sexual harassment, verbal and physical abuse, and the prohibition of unionising.
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    Power in Global Value Chains: Implications for Employment and Livelihoods in the Cashew Nut Industry in India, Summary Report

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2006
    Employers take advantage of women's cheaper labour to lower their costs, and while employment in particular for women workers is essential for survival, it still does not pay enough to raise households out of poverty. This report explores the impacts of an expanding cashew nut market on the livelihoods of women workers in India.
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    Misfortune 500 - website

    2006
    MisFortune 500, a new website launched by the Women's Environment and Development Organisation (WEDO), aims to: expose corporate activities which violate women's rights, workers' rights and the environment; promote corporate accountability mechanisms; strengthen women's networking and engagement; and publicise women's resistance and alternatives to corporate globalisation.
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    Gender and Codes of Conduct: A Case Study from Horticulture in South Africa

    Christian Aid, 2006
    Corporate codes of conduct have become an increasingly important issue, particularly since the formation of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) in 1997. Supermarkets are playing a key role within the ETI, and the main UK supermarkets are in the process of introducing codes of conduct to their suppliers.

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