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  Role of men and boys in promoting gender equality

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2004

  This policy brief aims to provide policy makers, practitioners, business, and civil society leaders with a framework for developing strategies and implementing programmes to engage men in gender equality. It identifies the reasons why men have a stake in gender equality.
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  The Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP) Utilizing State Resources to Promote Women's Human Rights in Turkey

  New Tactics in Human Rights Project, 2005

  This notebook uses the case of Turkey to show how building collaborative relationships with government institutions can advance human rights education. Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR)-New Ways, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Turkey gained the support and use of government resources for furthering human rights education of women at the local level.
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  A Brief Overview of Women's Movement(s) In Turkey

  Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 1997

  Since the Ottoman Empire a variety of women's groups have sought to improve the rights of women in Turkey. Issues tackled have included the right to divorce and the prohibition of polygamous and arranged marriages. More recent history shows that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Quran formed the basis of family law and this heavily influenced women's status.
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  Rising up in response: women's rights activism in conflict

  Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, 2005

  Women's human rights activists make up the bulk of the frontline human rights and humanitarian response to armed conflict. They mobilise, individually and collectively, to address the urgent needs of conflict-affected populations, before, during and after the fighting. Yet their work is often invisible.
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  Promoting Gender Equality. A Resource Kit for Trade Unions

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This toolkit has been designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members and ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals . Trade unions have a role in protecting workers from all types of discrimination, including that based on gender.
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  Gender and Trade Indicators

  2002

  This Women in Development Europe (WIDE) information sheet - aimed at governments, trade policy makers, the WTO and academic researchers - is designed to assist efforts to measure and monitor the relationship between trade and gender. This tool consists of three sets of indicators, which can be applied to an analysis of any trading relationship between countries or trade blocks.
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  International Trade in Women's Agendas

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  What strategies could be used in gender and trade advocacy? Trade agreements are generally formulated and decided by governments without any input from civil society. Increasingly, though, civil society organisations have been involved in protests against international and regional free trade agreements that are not sustainable, and that are working against gender equality.
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  Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2000

  Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.
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  Women, the State and Labour Rights Activism: The Role of Women's Organisations in Improving Labour Standards in Nicaragua

  Central American Women’s Network, 2005

  Maria Elena Cuadra (MEC) is an NGO set up in 1994 by leaders of the Women's Secretariat of the Sandinista Workers' Central (CST) trade union in Nicaragua. MEC was established in the light of the failure of the union to take women's concerns into account. As MEC is an NGO not a union, they were initially excluded from formal labour negotiations.
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  Gender Impacts of Trade Policies in Latin America: Progress and Challenges for Research and Action

  2003

  What has been the impact of civil society on the formulation and implementation of trade agreements in the Americas? This paper offers an overview of gender and trade research - including on employment, gender segregation in the labour market, salary gaps, and the impact of trade on productive and reproductive spheres.

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