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  Asia-Latina Women's Exchange: Mapping the Impacts of the Quota Phase-out on Workers' Lives

  Maquila Solidarity Network, 2005

  Until January 2005 countries' garment and textile industries were restricted under the global Multifibre Trade Agreement which imposed quotas on exports as a way to enable growth of these industries in less developed countries. As part of the Agreement, this quota system was gradually phased out.
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  Access to safe abortion: an essential strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals to improve maternal health, promote gender equality and reduce poverty

  Millennium Project, 2007

  International leaders should support reforms of national laws on abortion in line with the commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, and with the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal mortality (the World Health Organization estimates that 13 percent of all maternal deaths globally are caused by unsafe abortion).
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  BRIDGE Occasional paper: UNDP/BRIDGE panel discussion on gender sensitive indicators and measurements of change, 51st Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

  BRIDGE, 2007

  The Gender Team at the Bureau for Development Policy (BDP) of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and BRIDGE at the Institute of Development Studies, (IDS), UK, undertook an Expert Panel Discussion on Gender Sensitive Indicators and Measurements of Change at the 51st Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, in March 2007.
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  Workshop on Development Effectiveness in Practice: Applying the Paris Declaration to Advancing Gender Equality, Environmental Sustainability and Human Rights - Dublin, Ireland, 26-27 April 2007

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007

  In April 2007, a workshop on ?Development effectiveness in practice?, hosted by Irish Aid, brought together 120 participants representing Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Members, partner countries, civil society and United Nations agencies.
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  Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007

  2007

  Girls are getting a raw deal. They face double discrimination on account of their gender and their age, and in many societies they remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. 'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007' is the first in a series of annual reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.
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  Unsafe Abortion

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  What is the cost of unsafe abortion-related ill-health and death? This was the subject of a meeting held at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) in April 2007. The meeting reviewed recent work estimating the cost of unsafe abortion. Participants also discussed the economic costs to health systems, individuals and households, and the links between unsafe abortion and poverty.
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  Sexuality, development and human rights

  Expert Group on Development Issues, Department for International Development Cooperation. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2006

  Historically development work has dealt with sexuality in limited ways, the best illustration being the subsuming of sexuality under family-planning that prevailed from the 1960s on.
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  Reproductive Rights and Women with Disabilities: A Human Rights Framework

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2002

  Women with disabilities comprise ten percent of women world-wide but yet their reproductive health and rights are often neglected. This paper suggests that international human rights laws and agreements be used to protect the rights of women with disabilities.
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  Global Monitoring Report 2007 - Millennium Development Goals: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States (Overview in French and Spanish)

  World Bank, 2007

  The 2007 Global Monitoring Report assesses progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Fourth in a series of annual reports, this year's report highlights two key thematic areas - gender equality and women's empowerment (MDG3), and fragile states. The report shows that progress towards the official MDG3 indicators has been made:
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  The Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The World Bank Track Record

  Gender Action, 2007

  To what extent does the World Bank meets its own promised objective to mainstream gender into its investments in Post-Conflict Reconstruction (PCR)? 97% of World Bank Post Conflict Fund (PCF) grants neglect to identify women as a target population in the title. Those focused on women constitute just under 4% of total funds.

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