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    Women Today Website

    Mujeres Hoy, 2007
    Mujeres Hoy is a website which provides gender related information and links to initiatives in Spain and Latin America. A section of their portal is dedicated to labour rights and offers abstracts on a wide range of articles, case studies and papers with links to the original documents.
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    The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement 'Maria Elena Cuadra' (MEC)

    Maria Elena Cuadra, 2007
    This movement supports women to participate fully and equally in Nicaraguan society by offering a space for reflection, capacity building and organisation. They focus on issues related to women's economic empowerment and labour rights but also work on other related issues like gender-based violence, poverty eradication and the environment.
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    Gender Sensitive and Women Friendly Public Policies - a Comparative Analysis of their Progress and Impact

    EQUAPOL, 2005
    This report aims to assess the progress and impact of the integration of a gender dimension on public policy formulation and design, especially social policy, in eight European countries, who have committed to mainstreaming gender into their approaches. The results suggest that progress in implementing gender mainstreaming is slow and rather patchy.
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    The importance of Gender in European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)

    ISIS Europe, 2007
    What has changed in European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) since UN Security Council Resolution 1325, the first internationally binding agreement relating to women and security, and gender perspectives, in the year 2000?
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    2005
    How can gender be mainstreamed into the workplace so that it improves gender equality in the world of work? This report presents 25 gender equality initiatives carried out by governments, employers' organisations and trade unions across 21 countries. 'Good Practices' by these institutions fall into eight main categories. They include :
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    Iraq: The Status of Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq's De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International Legal Standards

    Iraq Legal Development Project, 2005
    Although women in Iraq have a 25 percent quota in political representation, they still face considerable obstacles in their quest to secure their human rights. This paper assesses the degree to which Iraqi women in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto) enjoy the protection of their rights as guaranteed under international agreements.
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    GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit

    Sub-regional International Labour Office for East Asia, 2006
    The Gender and Entrepreneurship Together (GET) training package assists organisations to promote enterprise development among low-income women who want to start, or are already engaged in, small-scale businesses. The package addresses the needs of these women by strengthening their basic business and people management skills.
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    Gender-Sensitive Reporting in Iraq - Workshop Findings Report

    Article 19, 2007
    Free and gender-aware reporting in Iraq is currently under threat. The media faces restrictions from the government and as a result women's rights issues are not widely reported. This paper, a report on a workshop held for Iraqi journalists, outlines why it is important for a democracy to have a free media and why women's human rights issues in the country need better coverage.
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    Garment Industry Supply Chains: a Resource for Worker Education and Solidarity

    2004
    How can sub-contracted garment workers claim their legal rights in a context of increasing globalisation where complex supply chains make it difficult to trace employers and enforce them to fulfil their legal responsibilities?
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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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