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    Translating the Global: Effects of Transnational Organising on Local Feminist Discourses and Practices in Latin America

    Sociologia, 2000
    Women's rights advocates' increased participation in international policy arenas is now fairly well documented and many studies have considered the capacity of global feminist organisations to promote changes in gender-related policy at the international and national levels. However, there is little information on the local impacts of feminist activists' advocacy efforts at a global level.
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    The Global Women's Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies

    Zed Books Limited, 2004
    Is there a global women's movement and how might it contribute to finding alternative paths that would make another world possible? This book addresses these questions based on an analysis of the origins of the movement.
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    Strengthening spaces: women's human rights in social movements

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2005
    How do different social movements understand and take up the women's rights agenda? What are the challenges they face and what is the progress they have made in working on these issues? These questions were addressed during a two-day international dialogue, Strengthening Spaces: Women's Human Rights in Social Movements, which took place in Bangkok in 2005.
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    Defending our Dreams, Global Feminist Voices for A New Generation

    Zed Books Limited, 2005
    Young women often feel alienated from the women's movement because it is not sensitive to their own concerns, and because they see many of those who have been involved with it for years as patronising and arrogant.
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    Manual for Gender Mainstreaming: Social Inclusion and Social Protection Policies

    European Commission, 2007
    What do EU policy makers need to do to mainstream gender into social inclusion and social protection policies? This manual provides policy makers with a hands-on tool to aid this process. It suggests several factors to consider when designing social protection policies.
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    Investing in Gender Equality: Global Evidence and the Asia-Pacific Setting

    2008
    Investing in gender equality significantly improves a country's social and economic development. Existing studies, for example, show that closing the gender gap in secondary education increases the level of per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Emphasis on girls' education also has a positive impact on fertility decline, child mortality and malnutrition.
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    Inclusive security, sustainable peace: a toolkit for advocacy and action (updated)

    Hunt Alternatives Fund, 2007
    Women play critical roles in promoting peace and fostering security in conflict situations while addressing the basic survival needs of their families and communities. Yet they are often underrepresented or overlooked in conflict prevention, negotiations and in post war reconstruction activities.
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    Gender and Food Security: Inequalities in Relation to Hunger

    Genre en Action, 2008
    Between February and May 2008, 'hunger riots' erupted in the South - particularly in African countries such as Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Egypt, Algeria, the Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Madagascar and Cameroon. The riots have provided a clear warning that populations can no longer face the increasing prices of basic food products - such as rice, groundnut oil, potatoes and corn.
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    DFID Malawi Gender Audit: Evaporated, Invisibilized or Resisted?

    Department for International Development, UK, 2004
    How effectively has gender been mainstreamed into the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) work in Malawi? This gender audit assesses the implementation of the DFID's gender mainstreaming strategy in Malawi. The findings are presented in an audit scorecard which outlines each component of DFID's mainstreaming strategy and assesses its implementation in DFID Malawi (DFIDM).
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    Mainstreaming Gender in HIV/AIDS Programs: Ongoing Challenges and New Opportunities in Malawi

    Bridgewater State College, 2005
    If work on prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission in Malawi does not mainstream a gender approach, it is unlikely to achieve maximum impacts.

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