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    Crafting an Abortion Law that Respects Women's Rights: Issues to Consider

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2004
    The safety and accessibility of abortion depends largely on the laws and policies that regulate it. This briefing paper argues that in drafting legislation or regulations regarding abortion, governments should make women's human rights?their rights to reproductive autonomy, equality and health?the primary consideration.
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    Abortion Worldwide: Twelve Years of Reform

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2007
    In 1995, the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) expressly called upon governments to re-examine restrictive abortion laws. The Beijing mandate reflects a global trend toward abortion law liberalisation - a trend that first gained momentum in the late 1960s and continues today.
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    Expanding Access to Safe Abortion: Strategies for Action

    1998
    Agreements reached in international conferences on women, population, and human rights, as well as human rights treaties, are powerful but under-utilised tools for action to promote women's access to safe abortion services.
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    Abortion and Young People

    International Programme on Sexuality of Rutgers Nisso Groep, 2007
    What is abortion? What are the types of induced abortion and how is it done? What are the risks involved? Are other young people also trying to have an abortion? These are some of the questions addressed in this practical and accessible brochure which seeks to provide correct information to young people, without fear or guilt, and to dispel the myths that exist around abortion.
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    'Queering' development: Exploring the Links Between Same-Sex Sexualities, Gender, and Development

    BRIDGE, 2000
    Feminist activists and lesbians and gay people often face common issues. Gender norms underlie discrimination against those with same sex sexualities. Control of women's sexuality is one rationale and mechanism for control of women more generally.
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    Addressing Violence Against Women in HIV Testing and Counselling: A Meeting Report

    World Health Organization, 2006
    This meeting report is an outcome of a consultation held in 2006 of practitioners, researchers and policy makers on how HIV testing and counselling programmes can take into account and address intimate partner violence and other concerns related to women.
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    Water and Sanitation for Disabled People and Other Vulnerable Groups: Designing Services to Improve Accessibility

    Loughborough University of Technology, 2005
    Based on three years of research in low-income countries, this book provides a range of practical low-cost solutions to improve accessibility to household water and sanitation facilities for children, women and men who experience limitations in carrying out such activities.
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    2005
    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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    GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit

    Sub-regional International Labour Office for East Asia, 2006
    The Gender and Entrepreneurship Together (GET) training package assists organisations to promote enterprise development among low-income women who want to start, or are already engaged in, small-scale businesses. The package addresses the needs of these women by strengthening their basic business and people management skills.
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    Garment Industry Supply Chains: a Resource for Worker Education and Solidarity

    2004
    How can sub-contracted garment workers claim their legal rights in a context of increasing globalisation where complex supply chains make it difficult to trace employers and enforce them to fulfil their legal responsibilities?

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