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    Ageing New Zealand: the growing reliance on migrant caregivers

    Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2009
    New Zealand’s population is ageing rapidly.  It is projected that 48,200 paid caregivers will be needed by 2036 to look after a growing number of older and possibly disabled New Zealanders requiring high levels of care and support.
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    An aging world: 2008

    U.S. Census Bureau, 2009
    Population ageing has emerged as a major demographic worldwide trend. On the one hand the reality of global ageing and increased longevity represents a triumph of medical, social, and economic advances. But on the other, population ageing has created significant challenges to health care systems, and existing models of social support, pensions and insurance.
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    Good practices in participatory mapping: a review prepared for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

    International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2009
    Participatory mapping, commonly used in participatory development, plays an important role in helping marginalised groups by making visible the association between land and local communities, highlighting important social, historical and cultural knowledge as well as presenting geographical feature information.
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    Pacific sisters with disabilities: at the intersection of discrimination

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    Women and girls with disabilities experience disadvantages and discrimination based on the combination of both disability and gender-based discrimination, known as ‘intersectional discrimination’. This study aims to identify the issues and challenges faced by women and girls with disabilities in the Pacific and to analyse social and economic factors impacting on their human rights.
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    Pacific sisters with disabilities: at the intersection of discrimination

    United Nations Development Programme, 2009
    What are the issues and challenges facing women and girls with disabilities in the Pacific? One is the experience of “intersectional discrimination” based on the combination of both disability and gender-based discrimination.
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    Doing time: the experiences and needs of older people in prison

    Prison Reform Trust, 2009
    Prison staff working with older prisoners require specialist training and support, as the needs of older people can be hard to detect. The increase in numbers of people needing significant health and social care input has created huge challenges for prison, probation, health and social service staff. Despite improvements in this area and pockets of good practice, these needs remain largely unmet.
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    Poverty and disability among Indian elderly: evidence from household survey

    Australia South Asia Research Centre, 2009
    In India, more than one quarter of the Indian aged population (age 60 upwards) is disabled.  Age-specific disability rates and the severity of disablement increases with age.  Indian data also suggests that that 40 percent of the elderly live below the poverty line and 90 percent are neither covered by any state pension nor have any family to take care of them.
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    Changing their world: concepts and practices of women's movements

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008
    What do we mean by women’s movements and what makes a movement feminist? Why are movements important and what are the differences between movements and organisations? What are the issues facing women’s and feminist movements today?
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    Gender equality at the heart of decent work

    International Labour Organization, 2009
    The current financial crisis will impact heavily on both women’s and men’s efforts to find and keep decent work.
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    European Women's Lobby Statement to the Spring Council 2007 - 50 Years of European Gender Equality Legislation: Implement Gender Justice now!

    2007
    While European Union (EU) legislation has been instrumental in promoting gender equality and women's rights in Member States and accession countries, the binding legal instruments do not address the obstacles and inequalities that women confront in the private sphere. The European Women's Lobby identifies key areas where EU institutions should intervene if gender equality is to be achieved.

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