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    Advocating for Abortion Access: Eleven Country Studies

    Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2001
    What factors influence a country's legal position on abortion? This publication is
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    Transparency & silence: a survey of access to information laws and practices in fourteen countries

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2006
    The ability of citizens to request and receive information on the workings of their government is crucial to ensure transparency and accountability. This report provides a snapshot on the state of access to information in fourteen countries. It provides the results of a study undertaken to discover how government offices and agencies respond to specific requests for information.
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    To Stop Violence Against Women Respect for Women's Human Rights is Essential

    Amnesty International, 2007
    Violence against women and girls is a global pandemic, which often manifests itself as sexual violence in one form or another. This collection of stories, testimonies and recollections of girls and women - from Mexico, Colombia, China and Sudan - shows how women's freedoms are dependent on their sexual and reproductive rights, particularly those to safe and legal abortion.
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    The EU-Mexico free trade agreement seven years on. A warning to the global South

    Transnational Institute, 2007
    The EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has served as a model for Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements (IPPAs) between the EU and Latin American countries and regions since it came into force in 2000. This paper outlines the impact of the EU-Mexico FTA seven years on. It argues that instead of the promised economic and social benefits, the treaty has:
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    How can gender be mainstreamed into the workplace so that it improves gender equality in the world of work? This report presents 25 gender equality initiatives carried out by governments, employers' organisations and trade unions across 21 countries. 'Good Practices' by these institutions fall into eight main categories. They include :
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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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    Making government budgets more accessible and equitable

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Involvement in the budget process in poor countries has traditionally been limited to a select group of political actors. But this has changed over the last decade with legislators, civil society groups and the media playing a more active role. What impact is broader engagement having?
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    Global Information Society 2007

    Global Information Society Watch, 2007
    The Global Information Society Watch 2007 report - the first in a series of annual reports- looks at state of the field of information and communication technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels and particularly how policy impacts on the lives of people living in developing countries.
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    Alcohol, gender and drinking problems: perspectives from low and middle income countries

    Department of Mental Health and Substance Dependence, WHO, 2005
    The central theme of this book argues that in order to understand alcohol consumption and its consequences, we need to better understand social and cultural influences on the differences between men and women. The countries specifically under discussion are: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Uganda, Mexico, India, Nigeria and Sri Lanka.
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    Making accountability count

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Accountability is fundamentally a relationship of power. When accountability mechanisms work, citizens are able to make demands on powerful institutions and ensure that those demands are met. Accountability is therefore about democracy, rights and citizenship.

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