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    Engendering social security and protection: challenges for making social security and protection gender equitable

    Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2011
    The on-going negative impacts of the 2007/2008 global economic crisis has underlined the need for, and the role of social protection.
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    Social Protection Floors and gender equality: a brief overview

    International Labour Organization, 2013
    This paper examines some of the linkages between gender inequality and social protection, recognising that effective and equitable access to social protection is a key tool for reducing poverty and inequality. The paper identifies various gender-specific vulnerabilities and inequalities in relation to women’s access to social protection.
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    Women workers and the politics of claims-making in a globalizing economy

    Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2015
    This paper draws on empirical studies to examine how the politics of claims-making by women workers in the Global South have evolved in the context of increased globalisation.
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    Work and welfare: revisiting the linkages from a gender perspective

    Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD), 2012
    This paper takes a gender perspective to examine the relationship between employment and social policy. It challenges key assumptions about the translation of patterns of growth into welfare outcomes that are made in most poverty- and inequality-reduction approaches.
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    Economic crisis and women's work: exploring progressive strategies in a rapidly changing global environment

    UN Women, 2013
    This report examines the gendered impacts of on-going global financial and economic crises in the labour market.
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    Making women’s work visible: finance for rural women

    Women's World Banking, 2014
    Globally more than one billion women have no interaction with a bank or financial service provider. Rural women face unique challenges and limitations. They have, on average, lower levels of literacy and education than men, and generally have less freedom within households and communities.
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    Spotlight on publications: human rights in Latin America

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Strong national human rights institutions, an active regional human rights court, a human rights approach to budgeting and strategic litigation by civil society: these are just some of the innovative approaches Latin American countries are taking to improve human rights across the region.
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    Spotlight on publications: indigenous and ethnic minority rights

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    Indigenous and ethnic minorities are recognised under international law as a collective group with a shared identify and specific rights that governments should protect and guarantee via national frameworks and innovative public policies.
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    Spotlight on publications: judicial review for enforcing human rights in Latin America

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    In the face of persistent and systematic human rights violations, lawsuits are increasingly being brought before Latin American courts. Through cutting edge rulings, courts in the region have ordered the executive and legislative branches of government to allocate budgets and implement public policies that can effectively realise human rights.
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    Spotlight on publications: labour market policies in Latin America

    Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013
    The publications presented in this Spotlight represent some of the key resources dealing with issues related to labour market policies in Latin America. The selected publications focus on the following topics: Gender and Labour; Impact Evaluations; Labour Intermediation Services; Active and Passive Labour Market Policies and Programmes; and Labour Market Regulations and Development.

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