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  Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading

  University Press of Florida, 2004

  An original and uncompromising study of the Qur'anic foundations of women's identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an, Islam's most authoritative source, and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality.The book documents the historical development of Islamic thought and describes how Muslim males hav
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  New insights on preventing child marriage: a global analysis of factors and programs

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007

  One in every seven girls in developing countries marries before the age of 15 and nearly half are expected to marry by their 20th birthday, according to this report.
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  Women with Disabilities: Lessons of Reinforcing the Gender Perspective in International Norms and Standards

  United Nations, 2003

  Getting 'Women with Disabilities' onto the United Nations' (UN) development agenda has been a long process. This paper charts the detailed history of including women with disabilities in international agreements. Originally the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) made no mention of women with disabilities.
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  Gendering the Draft Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

  2006

  There are an estimated 300 million women with disabilities world-wide. These women face discrimination based both on their disability and their gender. Three quarters of women with disabilities are excluded from the workforce and women and girls with disabilities are at high risk from physical and sexual violence. Meanwhile only one percent of disabled women and girls are literate.
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  Strengthening Women's Rights Organisations through Inclusion: Lessons Learned from the Gender, Disability and Development Institute

  2006

  How can women's organisations include women with disabilities in all areas of their work? According to this article, inclusion is easy. Based on information gathered at Mobility International (MI) USA's Gender, Disability and Development Institute (GDDI), this paper recommends that organisations start with MIUSA's 'Checklist for Inclusion' which provides a simple self-assessment guide.
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  Disabled Women and Independent Life in Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Russia, South Africa and Uganda

  Disability World, 2000

  Disabled women are discriminated against because they are women and also because they are disabled. Disabled women have played a very important part in the disabled people's movement since its inception. And yet, their contribution is often invisibilised or not properly acknowledged, in some occasions it is even not welcome.
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  A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities

  Hesperian Foundation, 2007

  Written in collaboration with women with disabilities in over 40 developing and developed countries, this handbook aims to help women and girls with disabilities to care for themselves; improve their general health, capabilities and self-reliance; and participate more effectively in their communities.
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  Mapping multilateral development banks’ reproductive health and HIV/AIDS spending

  Gender Action, 2007

  This is the first report testing Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) commitment to promote reproductive health, prevent HIV and treat AIDS. It analyses the quantity and quality of MDB funding for these sectors during 2003-2006 and highlights how MDB and International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies undermine achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reproductive health and HIV/AIDS targets.
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  Gender dimensions of intellectual property and traditional medicinal knowledge

  The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics, 2007

  Trade in medicinal and aromatic plants is big business. How can Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protect female practitioners of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge (TMK)?
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  International and Regional Databases of Gender Statistics

  BRIDGE, 2007

  Gender equality needs to be measured and documented because what gets measured is more likely to be addressed. For example, Rwandan women parliamentarians joined forces with national and international non-governmental organisations, United Nations agencies and the National Gender Machinery to use statistics on gender-based violence (GBV) to lobby for a GBV bill.

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