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  Complying with the Law? How Catholic Hospitals Respond to State Laws Mandating the Provision of Emergency Contraception to Sexual Assaults Victims

  2006

  In the United States five percent of women who have been sexually assaulted become pregnant as a result of the attack, the majority of which undergo elective abortion. This report argues that women who have experienced sexual assault should have easy access to emergency contraception (EC).
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  Attitudes of Catholics on Reproductive Rights, Church-State, and Related Issues: Three National Surveys in Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico

  2003

  Nationally and internationally, the opinions of Catholics on the role of the church in their lives, varies. The report, prepared for Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC), outlines key issues in which the opinions of Catholics in Bolivia, Colombia and Mexico has differed from that of the Vatican, focussing on reproductive rights.
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  Beyond inequalities: women in Zimbabwe

  Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network, 2005

  This profile provides a gender analysis of the status of women and girls in Zimbabwe. Part I looks at the situation of women since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995. The section covers economic policies; women's participation in politics and decision-making; laws and legal reform; education and technology; the socio-cultural context; health and media.
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  Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2003

  Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.
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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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  Identification of economic opportunities for women's groups and communities

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This guide is designed to support strategies for improved employment opportunities, particularly amongst women. It is aimed at development and community organisations, including women's groups, small business associations, workers' and employers' organisations, as well as in-country staff charged with assisting these groups.
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  Concluding comments of the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); Venezuela

  United Nations, 2006

  Recognising and commending the Venezuelan Constitution, 1999, which establishes the equality of rights between women and men, this document makes recommendations to the State regarding implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Optional Protocol to CEDAW, which was ratified by Venezuela in 2002.
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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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