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  Asia-Latina Women's Exchange: Mapping the Impacts of the Quota Phase-out on Workers' Lives

  Maquila Solidarity Network, 2005

  Until January 2005 countries' garment and textile industries were restricted under the global Multifibre Trade Agreement which imposed quotas on exports as a way to enable growth of these industries in less developed countries. As part of the Agreement, this quota system was gradually phased out.
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  Gendering the Draft Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

  2006

  There are an estimated 300 million women with disabilities world-wide. These women face discrimination based both on their disability and their gender. Three quarters of women with disabilities are excluded from the workforce and women and girls with disabilities are at high risk from physical and sexual violence. Meanwhile only one percent of disabled women and girls are literate.
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  Female Sex Work in Yangon, Myanmar

  2005

  Myanmar (Burma), with an upper estimate of 400,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, faces a dangerous and potentially devastating epidemic. Female sex workers in the country are one of the most affected populations, with high prevalence rates of both HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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  GenderStats on Myanmar

  World Bank, 2004

  Myanmar has a population of over 50,000, of which over 50.3 percent are women. Life expectancy is 64 years of age for women compared to 58 for men. Yet only 86.4 percent of women are literate compared to 93.9 percent of men. These are some of the statistics available from GenderStats, an electronic database of gender statistics hosted by the World Bank.
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  Bottom of the ladder: exploitation and abuse of girl domestic workers in Guinea

  Human Rights Watch, 2007

  Worldwide, domestic work is the largest employment category for children - especially girls. While other children in the family attend school, these girls are often denied an education. Many of them work up to 18 hours a day. They may also suffer beatings and sexual harassment or abuse.
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  Determinants of wage differentials in the maquila industry in Mexico: a gender perspective

  The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2007

  In 2007, the off-shore garment industry located in the Mexico-United States border region, commonly referred to as the maquila industry, accounted for one third of all employment in the manufacturing sector in Mexico. But although the industry is booming, women and men do not enjoy the employment opportunities this presents equally.
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  From Margins to Mainstream: From Gender Statistics to Engendering Statistical Systems

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003

  Engendering national statistical systems requires an approach that goes beyond merely disaggregating data from conventional censuses and surveys by sex. This paper argues that this traditional approach is insufficient because the data collection framework and instruments themselves are gender biased.
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  Measuring Care: Gender, Empowerment, and the Care Economy

  Routledge, 2006

  The Human Development Report Office has used both the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) as a means of monitoring international progress in the development of women's capabilities. This paper makes a case for the development of additional indices focused on burdens of financial and temporal responsibility for the care of dependents.
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  Focus. Empowering Women

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) supports Palestinian women through a wide range of initiatives - reviewed in this magazine. Training on gender and women's rights and assistance in gender mainstreaming is provided by UNDP to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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  Palestinian Women in Israel

  Coalition of Women for Peace, 2004

  Palestinian women living in Israel experience overlapping spheres of discrimination - politically, economically, and socially. Politically, Israel is dominated by men particularly those from the military. Although many women are dissatisfied with how political parties address women's concerns, fewer and fewer women are entering politics.

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