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  Owed justice: Thai women trafficked into debt bondage in Japan

  Human Rights Watch, 2000

  This report is based on interviews conducted in Thailand and Japan, documenting serious abuses in the course of women's recruitment, travel, job placement, and subsequent employment.
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  World Bank PRSP sourcebook: gender chapter

  Poverty Reduction Strategies and PRSPs, PovertyNet, World Bank, 2002

  This chapter is designed to guide those involved in poverty reduction strategies (PRS) at the country level in identifying and implementing policies and programs that will benefit both men and women and maximise potential benefits for poor families.This chapter argues that conventional poverty research and analysis tools can address most gender issues, and when this is not the case, the problem
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  Ethiopia: the urban food-for-work project

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on the successes and shortfalls of CARE Ethiopia's Urban Food-for-Work program (UFFW).
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  United Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM) contribution to the World Bank and IMF PRSP preview

  World Bank, 2001

  The following feedback from UNIFEM on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) review is based on assessments done by non-governmental organisations, consultants and national women’s machineries in countries with both interim and full PRSPs.Areas of concern include:one of the key areas where there is a singular lack of gender dimension in the PRSPs is that of data collection to infor
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  Do Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) address gender? A gender audit of 2002 PRSPs

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This paper provides an audit of the 13 PRSPs produced during 2002 to question the efficiency with which they address gender issues.Findings:3 PRSPs address gender issues commendably if not completely (Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia)another 8 PRSPs spottily apply an outdated Women in Development approach, defining gender issues as reproductive health, girls’ education and a few other issu
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  Globalized, wired, sex trafficking in women and children

  Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, 2000

  This paper addresses the issue of sex trafficking in women and children. It examines the public health ills of trafficking and the human rights violations. It looks in detail at Russian and Ukrainian trafficked women and examines prostitution as violence against women. It assesses the limited actions taken by the United States against trafficking and the lack of a basic rule of law.
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  Gender and PRSPs: with experiences from Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique

  BRIDGE, 2003

  This report assesses how gender has been incorporated into the PRSP processes, particularly, in Tanzania, Bolivia, Viet Nam and Mozambique.
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  Women in war and crisis zones: one key to Africa's wars of underdevelopment

  Development Studies Institute, LSE, 2002

  This paper draws on research in war and post-war situations in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, Colombia and Palestine to illustrate how modern wars have a disproportionate impact on women in patterns common to all continents.The paper underlines findings by many international organisations about the key role women could play in peace-building or reconciliation, but concludes that this will not be po
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  Violence against women: the health sector responds

  Pan American Health Organization, 2003

  Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most widespread human rights abuses and public health problems in the world today, affecting up to one out of three women. The consequences of GBV are often devastating and long-term, affecting women’s and girls’ physical health and mental well-being.
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  The campaign in the Gambia to end female genital cutting (FGC): lessons for advocacy practitioners

  Centre for Development Studies, University College, Dublin, 2003

  This paper describes the advocacy role of non governmental organisations (NGOs) in mobilising public opinion to end female genital cutting (FGC) in the Gambia. It analyses the extent of this role in terms of its political, social and cultural dimensions, and looks at how a well organised campaign aimed at changing attitudes, behaviour and policy should be conducted.

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