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  Assessing the Gender Impact of the Community based Animal Health Programme in Southern Sudan

  Veterinaires sans Frontieres, Belgium, 2002

  How does the position of women in the Nuer Community affect the division of labour in livestock activities? In southern Sudan many communities are chronically food insecure with little access to livestock and its products (e.g. milk and blood meat).
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  Working from within: culturally sensitive approaches in UNFPA programming

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Changing attitudes, behaviours and laws - especially around gender relations - has proved to be a complex undertaking which demands a great deal of sensitivity to local social and cultural dynamics.
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  Combined Third and Fourth CEDAW Periodic Reports of State Parties on Viet Nam

  United Nations, 2000

  Since 1998, Viet Nam has been implementing numerous effective measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls. Laws on economic, educational, scientific, political and social issues were revised to ensure their compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
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  Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries: Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

  International Land Coalition, 2004

  Women's access to land is a fundamental factor in food security. Yet women all over the world suffer under discriminatory property and inheritance laws and customary practices which restrict their rights over the land on which they live and work. Articles 15 and 16 of CEDAW state the rights of women to property and inheritance.
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  I Have A Story To Tell

  2004

  This book documents the life-stories of a group of 32 young Zimbabwean women who were the first to be supported through their education by CAMFED International. They now hold positions of authority in their poverty-stricken rural communities, working to address the problems that are associated with rural poverty, HIV/AIDS and educational exclusion.
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  Intersecting Protections, Migrating Women: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice [New York University Law School], 2004

  With the growing feminisation of migration comes an increasing focus on the abuses women migrants face in sending and receiving countries. Much of the effort to combat these violations centres on urging states to ratify the Migrant Workers Convention (MWC), which came into force in 2003.
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  What Men and Women Want: A Practical Guide to Gender and Participation

  2004

  How can things be improved for women and men in different communities? What is a participatory appraisal of an area's needs and requirements? How is it conducted? Looking at gender is more than just taking account of men and women's views. It is about questioning assumptions and looking beyond stereotypes about what is appropriate for men and women.
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  Why Might Women support Religious ?Fundamentalism??

  Women for Women International, 2004

  Religious fundamentalism is often associated with men, so much so that instances of women's support for religious fundamentalism are perceived as the exception. The tendency to assume that all women stand against fundamentalism unwittingly works hand in hand with the notion of women as 'natural' universal peace-seekers, nurturers and carers.
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  Gender and Agriculture in the Information Society

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2002

  Excitement about new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is tempered by long-standing problems of gender inequality in development processes. In most developing countries, women make up the majority of the population working in agriculture, but they are marginalised with respect to access to ICTs for economic and social empowerment.
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  Gender, Citizenship and the Role of NGOs in Selected Gulf Countries

  United Nations, 2003

  Women's NGOs in the Gulf have been struggling for gender equality before the law, as guaranteed by the constitution, for several decades. Despite numerous political gains, considerable challenges still exist. This is due to the complex interaction between social, political and cultural affiliations and influences that qualify the role women's NGOs play in public life in the Gulf.

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