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  My Life

  Zi Teng Publications, 2005

  Sex workers are usually the object of other people's prying, but this book presents sex workers' own points of view. Zi Teng is an organization that works for the rights of women providing sexual services in the Hong Kong area, including those from the mainland.
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  GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  This training package is designed for ILO partner organisations to promote women's enterprise development, particularly for those women in poverty who want to start or already have a small-scale business.
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  Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2000

  Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.
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  Assessing the Enabling Environment for Women in Growth Enterprises: An AfDB/ILO Integrated Framework Assessment Guide

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  There is a growing recognition of the importance of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) for development in Africa. Women's entrepreneurial activities mainly take place within the context of MSMEs which currently create the majority of new jobs across the continent.
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  Class of Dialogues on Vagina Monologue: A Sum-up on the Pedagogy of Women and Gender Studies

  2004

  In the evening of 20 December 2002 teachers from more than 20 universities in China came to the classroom to watch graduate students' perform a multimedia presentation of dialogues from 'The Vagina Monologue'. The response to this taboo shaking class was both applause and censure. The first section of this article introduces the class design, teaching process, and reflections from the teachers.
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  A Study of Gender Inequality in Rural Women's Development and their Free Time

  2004

  The relation between free time and gender inequality has been ignored by both studies of free time and by women's studies.
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  Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains

  Oxfam, 2004

  What are the difficulties faced by the predominantly female workforce at the end of global supply chains for fruit, vegetables and clothing which are dominated by powerful multinational corporations? This Oxfam report outlines these difficulties.
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  Anatomy of a backlash: sexuality and the ‘cultural’ war on human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2005

  This paper discusses the growing alliance of conservative forces which is threatening progress made over the past decade in linking sexuality, health and human rights. These forces, although diverse (including Muslim fundamentalists and the Christian right), share a common target: sexual rights and sexual freedom, particularly regarding the right to express homosexual orientation.
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  Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women's Organizing

  International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2005

  Women mobilising for gender equality are sometimes accused of being 'not proper women', lesbians, promiscuous. Such attacks aim to undermine such women, as well as reinforce ideas about what is proper behaviour for women.
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  Knowing Our Rights: Women, Family, Laws and Customs in the Muslim World

  Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2003

  This publication is designed as a tool for activists engaged in lobbying and advocacy related to women's rights within the family at the policy level as well as in communities. It covers twenty-six topics relevant to marriage and divorce, including the status of children (paternity and adoption) and child custody and guardianship.

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