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    Gender Mainstreaming in Development and Trade Policy and Practice: Learning from Austria, Belgium, and the UK

    Network Women in Development Europe, 2003
    In its longstanding commitment to promoting gender equality, the international community recognises the importance of gender mainstreaming. This research study examines how far these commitments were translated into practice at a national level within the European Union (EU), using Austria, Belgium and the UK as case studies.
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    Beijing + 10 Review: A Feminist Strategy for 2004-05, A Working Paper for NGOS on How to Move Forward

    2004
    The world has changed since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) was agreed in 1995. Informed by consultations on the future of women's human rights, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) proposes that NGOs use a 'matrix of interlocking forces' as a critical framework for analysis of progress and obstacles to implementing the BPfA.
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    NGOs as Partners on the Way to Accelerate the Implementation of the Platform for Action: Report of the NGO Forum

    2004
    In December 2004 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) held a ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). In preparation for this meeting the NGO Working Group on Women for the UNECE region organised an NGO Forum.
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    Gender equality: striving for justice in an unequal world

    United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005
    Based on the findings of UNRISD's ongoing gender research and over 60 specially commissioned studies, this report analyses the economic and political reforms of the 1990s. Whatever their intentions, these reforms had significant and mixed implications for gender relations and women's well-being. The report is divided into four key sections.
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    The Solidarity Economy: A Way to Reduce Inequalities between Men and Women?

    Genre en Action, 2005
    The market economy is not easy on women trying to reconcile family and work life without access to the same rights as men. A possible alternative is the 'solidarity economy' - economic enterprises undertaken not for profit but for benefit of a collective. These include crafts, small enterprises such as shops, cafes, entertainments or finance services.
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    Globalising Women's Rights: Confronting Unequal Development Between the UN Rights Framework and the WTO Trade Agreements

    BRIDGE, 2004
    In its work on the intersection between development and trade policies, Network Women in Development Europe (WIDE) recognised a growing lack of coherence between on the one hand, the human rights framework adopted by the United Nations (UN) and elaborated in various international conventions and on the other hand the commercial and corporate rights protected in free trade agreements.
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    Shadow Report to CEDAW

    2001
    Sri Lanka ratified CEDAW in 1981 without any reservations. In 2001, NGOs participated in producing this shadow report. Traditionally Sri Lanka has fared well in terms of basic social indicators like life expectancy, literacy, school enrolment, infant mortality, child mortality, maternal mortality and composite qualitative indices such as Human Development Index and Gender Development Index.
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    Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan: How to Improve their Bargaining Power

    International Labour Organization, 2003
    The rate of business start-ups by women in Pakistan has grown considerably over the last decade. Yet business is generally seen as a male domain. This report reviews the business environment for women in Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore and presents the findings of a survey among 150 women entrepreneurs.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 15: Gender and ICTs

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    Dramatic changes brought about by information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities the world over. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations. This issue of In Brief looks at the relationship between ICTs and gender equality.
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    Gender and ICTs: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    Mainstream perceptions of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet, are invariably positive, where barriers are understood to be technical rather than social. The reality is that the use of ICTs is governed by existing power relations, and vast numbers of people are excluded from the benefits of these technologies.

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