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    Gender and Poverty: Determinants of Health in Ageing

    2007
    Women represent the majority of the ageing population in almost every country in the world. In Mexico, the issues elderly people confront are related to poverty, gender and ageing.
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    Gender Database for Agriculture and Resource Management Policies in Pacific Island Countries

    1999
    In order to be effective, Women in Development initiatives need to be based on reliable data and area- specific information on gender roles in agricultural production and other contexts. This report calls for better gender-disaggregated information on the Pacific Region, with an emphasis on Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa.
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    Globalisation, Labor Standards and Women's Rights: Dilemmas of Collective (In)action in an Interdependent World

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2004
    In the context of trade liberalisation and the deregulation of the labour market, there has been an emergence of a northern-based alliance demanding that certain minimum labour standards be observed by all multinationals. This paper questions the view that globally enforced labour standards are in the interests of workers everywhere.
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    Women and Paid Sick Days: Crucial for Family Well-being

    2007
    More than 22 million working women in the United States (US) lack basic sick days benefits. Moreover, 75 percent of women living in poverty do not get paid when they miss work to care for a sick child. These are just some of the striking statistics presented in this short fact sheet on women in the US and paid sick days.
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    Study of Homebased Workers in the Southern Province

    HomeNet South Asia, 2007
    In Sri Lanka, numbers of women engaged in home-based work are increasing. Despite this, their work is often invisible to policy-makers and governments, and its economic value is rarely acknowledged.
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    SEWA Social Security: Organizing Women Workers for Insurance and Health Services

    2006
    In India, inequalities in access to health information, medical facilities and health insurance mean that those on low-incomes are substantially less likely than those on higher incomes to seek medical treatment or go to hospital.
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    Violence and Abuse against Women with Disabilities in Malawi

    Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research, 2006
    Through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, this study examines the experiences of abuse, violence and neglect of 23 women with disabilities in the urban Blantyre district of Malawi. The disabilities of the interviewees include visual, mental, hearing and physical impairments.
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    Sexuality, development and human rights

    Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006
    Historically development work has dealt with sexuality in limited ways, the best illustration being the subsuming of sexuality under family-planning that prevailed from the 1960s on.
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    Gender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies

    Mobility International USA, 2002
    Do women and girls with disabilities participate in international development processes? What data is collected on their involvement? This survey of 165 United States-based international development organisations shows that 93 percent of respondent organisations do not know the extent of participation of women and girls with disabilities in their programmes due to insufficient data.
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    Development and Self-Help Movement of Women with Disabilities

    Independent Living Institute, 2002
    In Japan, women continue to have inferior status to men and this is compounded when women and girls have disabilities. Few economic opportunities means a higher propensity to poverty and this drastically reduces disabled women's and girls' health and well-being.

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