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  Good Practices for ensuring accountability for women's reproductive health submission to the independent expert review group call for evidence

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2012

  In May 2012, the Center for Reproductive Rights submitted information to the Independent Expert Review Group (iERG), a four-year panel that is part of the U.N. Secretary General's Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health, on best practices for protecting and promoting the health of women and young people worldwide.
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  Review of research on collective action and engaging men to tackle gender based violence

  BRIDGE, 2012

  The aim of this review is to pull together examples of research that shows how collective forms of agency (whether in the form of social movements, coalitions or groups) have made a difference in eliciting positive social change in relation to gender-based violence; and highlights ways in which engaging men and masculinities on gender based violence issues has made a difference.
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  BRIDGE Update: Gender and the World Social Forum. Issue No. 99, March 2013

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2013

  BRIDGE Update: Gender and the World Social Forum Issue No. 99, March 2013 http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/  Past issues of the update are available at:
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  Feminisms and the World Social Forum: space for dialogue and confrontation

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

  This article, written by Virginia Vargas, presents a feminist perspective of the World Social Forum (WSF), analysing how changes in feminist strategies are expressed in the organisation's space and processes.
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  Sexism in the World Social Forum: is another world possible?

  Women's Human Rights Net, 2005

  This article, written by Ana Elena Obando following the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegro, Brazil, analyses perceived sexist contradictions at the WSF and challenges resistance movements to self-reflect and become more inclusive.
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  BRIDGE feature on WSF

  BRIDGE, 2013
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  Voices from digital spaces: Technology related violence against women

  Association for Progressive Communications, 2011

  Information communication technologies (ICTs) can be used as a tool to stop violence against women (VAW), but VAW can also be facilitated through the use of ICTs. According to this paper, few women’s rights activists are working in this critical area and, as a consequence, most countries do to have a related political and legal framework.
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  No revolutions without equality and justice: the struggle for women’s rights in rethinking development in the Arab region

  The World We Want, 2012

  This article considers policy practice in the Arab region, highlighting some key areas for consideration in future policy making in the region.
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  The UN post-2015 development agenda – a critical analysis. AWID Friday File

  Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2012

  This brief article contains a critical analysis of the post-2015 process so far at the time it was published and discusses the ways that women’s rights advocates are organising to influencing the process.
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  Forum Social Mondial Dakar 2011: Souveraineté alimentaire et équité de genre (World Social Forum Dakar 2011: Food security and gender equality)

  Genre en Action, 2011

  African women are involved in the whole food chain; women farmers are responsible for food production but also contribute to the production of cash crops. They remain responsible for tasks that are modernising very slowly and have suffered setbacks in public policy. Access to land, household energy, drinking water, transport, education and health remains precarious in rural areas.

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