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    Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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    Sex Work Toolkit

    World Health Organization, 2004
    In many parts of the world, sex workers have been among the groups most vulnerable to and most affected by HIV since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic. This online toolkit is aimed at helping sex workers to protect themselves and their clients from infection by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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    Boom-time Blues: Big Oil's Gender Impacts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Sakhalin

    Gender Action, 2006
    Why is it that extractive industries often bring massive short-term benefits to 'boom towns' but harm weaker social groups, including women, in the process?
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    Men's Participation as Fathers in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A Critical Literature Review with Policy Considerations

    Promundo, 2008
    If men's involvement as fathers is generally positive - for children, women, and men themselves - how can we promote this through policies and programmes? This comprehensive document provides a literature overview and analysis of men's participation as fathers in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
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    Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: Chiquita, women banana workers and structural inequalities

    Siyanda, 2004
    How can multilateral companies improve labour conditions for women workers? This paper focuses on the multinational Chiquita, and on its sourcing of bananas from Latin America. Over the last decade, Chiquita has taken a number of steps to rectify a bad public image and has improved its ethical performance through the development of a comprehensive CSR policy.
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    Made by women: gender, the global garment industry and the movement for women worker’s rights

    Clean Clothes Campaign, 2006
    Gender influences labour practices in countless ways - ideas about the jobs women can do, how they should do them, their wages, their relationship to employers and the law. This publication aims to provide a clear understanding of the key role that gender plays in shaping the issues that labour rights activists in the garment industry are tackling.
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    State of world population 2006: a passage to hope; women and international migration

    United Nations Population Fund, 2006
    Produced in tandem with the United Nations High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, this report emphasises the positive impacts that women migrants have had on reducing poverty through sending remittances. At the same time it warns that millions of female migrants face hazards in the form of trafficking and other types of exploitation.
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    Swept under the rug: abuses against domestic workers around the world

    Human Rights Watch, 2006
    Women and girls make up the overwhelming majority of domestic workers around the world. In recent years, abuses against domestic workers - typically taking place in private homes and hidden from the public eye - have garnered increased attention. But this has not been matched by concerted government action.
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    The Story Behind the Numbers: Women and Employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006
    Following the collapse of state socialist regimes, there have been radical changes in labour markets in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS). Already high levels of job segmentation continue: women are increasingly crowded into underpaid public sector jobs while men are given better paid, higher status opportunities.
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    Company Codes of Conduct and Workers Rights: Report of an Education and Consultation Programme with Garment Workers in Asia

    2002
    Women Working Worldwide carried out an education and consultation programme with women workers in Asia, in July 1999 and December 2001. Eight organisations in seven different Asian countries undertook to adapt and print educational materials on codes of conduct for use in their own education programmes, as well as programmes of other nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and trade unions.

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