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  Women's Access to Markets: Vulnerabilities and Constraints

  2003

  Traditionally markets have been off-limits to women in Bengali society. In present day Bangladesh, culture-based gender bias compounded by poverty continues to hinder women's access to markets. In rural areas in particular, women who go to the market are viewed as ?bad? women.
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  Gender, Class and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta

  Taylor and Francis Group, 2006

  Water plays a pivotal role in economic activity and in human well-being. It is essential to food production and in domestic use (drinking, washing, and cooking). Yet the social relations which determine access to, and use of, water are poorly understood. Conflict over water may have far-reaching consequences on social change.
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  Needs Assessment Study on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) for Advocacy on Protection and Promotion of Human Rights of Sex Workers

  2003

  There are more than 150,000 sex-workers in Bangladesh. Society chooses to ignore the demand aspect of the sex trade and systematically denies sex workers basic human rights like access to basic services, including the right to proper burial. CARE Bangladesh commissioned this study as part of its advocacy work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of sex workers.
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  Participatory monitoring: guidelines for practitioners in the fight against human trafficking

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Participatory Monitoring (PM) tools are used as far as possible in the International Labour Organisation's project to combat trafficking in children and women in the Mekong sub-region. This toolkit, based on materials field-tested by project staff, has been designed to help monitor the project's progress, track trafficking and identify good practice.
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  Social protection in the informal economy: home-based women workers and outsourced manufacturing in Asia

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2002

  There has been an increasing ?informalisation? of the labour force in developing countries over the past few decades. This means that increasing numbers of workers are engaged in unregulated, uncontracted work which is often casual or temporary in nature. Simultaneously there has been greater participation of women in the labour market.
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  HIV/AIDS-stigma and violence reduction intervention manual

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2006

  This manual, developed in India, discusses how participatory learning and action (PLA) can be applied to combatting violence and stigma around HIV/AIDS. Two new tools are developed for this purpose, building on PLA: community-led action research, and transformatory workshops.
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  Risk, Morality and Blame: A Critical Analysis of Government and US Donor Responses to HIV infections Among Sex Workers in India

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2004

  This paper is one of a series on gender and HIV in India, which since 1995 has received 67 million US dollars for its AIDS control program. It examines the effectiveness of strategies by the Government of India, with this assistance from the US, to address the vulnerabilities of adult female sex workers.
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  Gender, Business and Poverty

  Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice, UK, 2002

  There is increasing recognition that business has a key role to play in the reduction of poverty, and that poverty reduction is in the interest of business. But what role should gender play in this? Is business more likely to gain if gender issues are addressed?
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  Trade liberalisation policy

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  Trade liberalisation (decreasing restrictions on trade) has taken place through several policy frameworks over the past ten years. In addition to the rules of the WTO, trade liberalisation has also been a key factor of World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes. Advocates of such policies argue that trade liberalisation should increase a country's growth and incomes.
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  Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2003

  Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.

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