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    Shadow Report to the Fifth Periodic Report of the Government of Bangladesh

    Steps Towards Development, 2004
    Has the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh delivered on their promises as a signatory of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
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    2004 ZIM: Comprehensive Review of Gender Issues in the Education Sector

    2004
    In Zimbabwe, key indicators on enrolment, access to, and completion in education show stagnation in educational development between 1990 and 2001. Within this, serious disparities and inequalities are revealed with gender being a key contributory factor.
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    Human development and Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) –Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women: mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment

    United Nations Development Programme, 2003
    This report examines the status of women in Sudan, using the third Millennium Development Goal of women's empowerment as the framework. It begins with an overview of some key definitions, including gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment.
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    Fifth Periodic Report on Implementation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Japan)

    Government of Japan, 2002
    Japan's 5th periodic report on the implementation of the ?Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women? (CEDAW) covers the period May 1998 to April 2002. It was put together in consultation with a wide range of civil society groups.
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    Citizenship: towards a feminist synthesis

    Feminist Review, 1997
    This article outlines how citizenship can be used as a political and theoretical tool by combining 'rights' and 'participation'. Participation in social, economic, cultural and political decision-making provides a more dynamic and active form of rights in which people work together to improve their quality of life.
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    Women, citizenship and difference

    Feminist Review, 1997
    In a globalising world where the role of the local, the national and the global is shifting, the meanings of citizenship are also changing. This article presents some new theoretical discussions on gender and citizenship.
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    A Gender Review in Education, Turkey 2003

    2003
    Boys benefit more than girls from educational services in Turkey. Progress was made with the implementation of the Basic Education Program 1997, which saw girls' enrolment at all levels of education increase. However, girls still face problems of access to education due mostly to physical distance, and financial and social barriers.
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    Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

    Oxfam, 2003
    One of the greatest barriers to achieving full citizenship rights for women is culture. If development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of ?culture? that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.
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    Women, nationality and citizenship

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003
    In the majority of cases, nationality is crucial to the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This has significant implications for those who do not have nationality such as stateless persons and refugees. However, looking at nationality also reveals numerous gender discriminations.
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    The Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP) Utilizing State Resources to Promote Women's Human Rights in Turkey

    New Tactics in Human Rights Project, 2005
    This notebook uses the case of Turkey to show how building collaborative relationships with government institutions can advance human rights education. Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR)-New Ways, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Turkey gained the support and use of government resources for furthering human rights education of women at the local level.

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