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  Local Action/Global Change: Learning about the Human Rights of Women and Girls

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1999

  This book aims to develop human rights awareness and provide information on issue-oriented actions. It includes substantive information about the human rights of women in such areas as violence, health, reproduction and sexuality, education, the global economy, the workplace, and family life.
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  Local Power Series

  2000

  This series of workbooks shows how citizenship is related to, and can change people's daily lives. Individual and group exercises invite participants to analyse their own situation, and to identify their needs and areas of discrimination in their community. One exercise asks people to write down three rights and three responsibilities.
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  Does Sex Make a Difference: An Equalities Pack for Young People on International Women's Day

  2003

  ?Get a Life!? is one message of this pack which looks at why women are underrepresented in politics in the UK. Young people, particularly girls, are encouraged to get involved in politics and representative bodies in school, community and government. Positive stories are presented of women's and young people's participation in politics.
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  Women Hold Up Half the Sky

  2003

  This series of eight training videos which accompanies the above workbook is for learning about the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its relevance to women's daily lives. These short narrative dramas showing the effects of patriarchy on women and girls are based on real life stories.
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  Passport to Dignity

  2003

  To address women's disadvantage and devise solutions, there is a need to develop a comprehensive systemic analysis of the situation of women which looks at the causes and structures of disadvantage. The human rights framework can provide the tools to do this. It can identify how and where oppressive systems work and help to dismantle them.
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  Paving the Way to Justice: The Experience of Nagorik Uddyog (NU)

  One World Action, 2003

  Enforcing access to justice can be a fundamental and practical way of helping citizens to secure their rights and participation. Women and minority groups are notoriously excluded from legal recourse in formal channels due to both physical constraints - such as cost and location - and social factors like education, confidence and language.
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  Gender and Citizenship in Central America: A different perspective

  2000

  How is women's citizenship currently understood in Central America? This paper provides an overview of gender and citizenship in Central America by placing it in the diverse socio-economic and political histories of the region.
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  Special Issue on Gender and Citizenship

  Taylor and Francis Group, 1997

  This special issue brings together some current theoretical debates on gender and citizenship in the climate of globalisation, including debates concerning the changing nature of people's individual and group identities and belonging.
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  Shifting Spaces: Women, Citizenship and Migration within the European Union

  Polity Press, 1998

  This book is based on a research project examining the gender dimensions of internal migration in the European Union (EU). The impact of EU membership on the citizenship experience of female EU nationals as they migrate from one member country to another is explored.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  Reliable and affordable childcare is becoming increasingly critical in Latin America in a context of rising female labour force participation and growing numbers of female-headed households. The Hogares Comunitarios Programme (HCP), a government-sponsored programme established in Guatemala City in 1991, was a direct response to the escalating need of poor urban women for childcare.

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