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  Human Rights, Advocacy, and the Empowerment of Women: An Education and Action Project in the Yugoslav Successor States?

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 1999

  In Croatia widespread ethnic conflict has led to the large scale erosion of human rights, including women's rights. In this context, Be Active, Be Emancipated - Budi aktivna, Budi emancipirana, or B.a.B.e. - was set up to foster structural change towards ensuring women's full participation in society. B.a.B.e.
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  Paving the Way to Justice: The Experience of Nagorik Uddyog (NU)

  One World Action, 2003

  Enforcing access to justice can be a fundamental and practical way of helping citizens to secure their rights and participation. Women and minority groups are notoriously excluded from legal recourse in formal channels due to both physical constraints - such as cost and location - and social factors like education, confidence and language.
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  Policy Advocacy: The Case of Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA)

  BRIDGE, 2000

  The problem of gender-based violence is significant in Tanzania, and is increasing. The right of women to live free from such violence and their right to protection is fundamental to their citizenship - and the ways in which such protection is fought for is a demonstration of gendered citizenship practice.
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  Gendering Ethnicity: Implications for Democracy Assistance in Kyrgyzstan

  Routledge, 2002

  Since 1991, Western governments have been providing large amounts of democratic assistance to the Former Soviet Union yet few, if any, of the recipient countries have developed into genuine democracies. American and other Western powers expected democracy to prevent economic chaos and political conflict within and among states.
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  Gender and Citizenship in Central America: A different perspective

  2000

  How is women's citizenship currently understood in Central America? This paper provides an overview of gender and citizenship in Central America by placing it in the diverse socio-economic and political histories of the region.
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  Special Issue on Gender and Citizenship

  Taylor and Francis Group, 1997

  This special issue brings together some current theoretical debates on gender and citizenship in the climate of globalisation, including debates concerning the changing nature of people's individual and group identities and belonging.
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  Shifting Spaces: Women, Citizenship and Migration within the European Union

  Polity Press, 1998

  This book is based on a research project examining the gender dimensions of internal migration in the European Union (EU). The impact of EU membership on the citizenship experience of female EU nationals as they migrate from one member country to another is explored.
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 14: Gender and Citizenship

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  How can working with ideas of citizenship help promote gender equality? Starting from the perspective of people as citizens can enable development actors to support struggles for rights and participation for those marginalised on the basis of gender.
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  Gender and Citizenship: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Citizenship is an abstract concept and therefore great care must be taken in explaining what it means in practice and what can effectively be done in the context of development interventions and policy. Development projects which enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship.
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  Gender and Citizenship: Overview Report

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Feminists and women's rights activists have sought to reframe citizenship from a gender perspective and to show how struggles for women's rights must be seen as citizenship struggles that affect everyone in society rather than ?minority interests?. This idea of citizenship has been used to tackle exclusion on the basis of gender, for example with political quotas and affirmative action.

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