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Promoting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers in Arab States: The Case of Lebanon
International Labour Organization, 2008Thousands of women leave their homes each year to work as domestic workers in the Arab world with the hope of securing a better economic future. Some have their dreams fulfilled; others find themselves in a financial and emotional bind.DocumentWomen and the right to food international law and state practice
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008Because of their lower social and economic status, as well as physiological needs, women are often more vulnerable to nutritional problems. When it comes to sharing food resources in the home, women and girls can lose out.DocumentWhose Sexualities Count: Poverty, Participation and Sexual Rights
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007This paper asks: what do sexuality, sexual rights and sexual pleasure have to do with citizenship, participation and rights?DocumentStronger Women Stronger Nations - 2007 Kosovo Report: Amplifying the Voices of Women in Kosovo
Women for Women International, 2007Women for Women International conducted this survey of over 1,600 participants in conjunction with the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), and American University to raise awareness about the critical link between women's economic, social and political participation and long-term peace and stability in Kosovo.DocumentBRIDGE Bibliography 19: Putting gender back in the picture: rethinking women's economic empowerment - overview and annotated bibliography
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007Current momentum around women's economic empowerment offers huge scope for bringing about real changes in women's lives. But earning an income or having access to credit cannot be assumed to bring automatic benefits for women.DocumentGender and Economic Empowerment in Africa, 8th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum, Berlin, Germany, 22-23 May 2007
Africa Partnership Forum, 2007There are multiple obstacles to the economic empowerment of women in Africa. For example, limited access to productive resources such as land, seed and fertiliser means that women may be unable to benefit from the expansion of trade in agricultural products.DocumentWomen's Status, Rights and Interests in Land Diversion
2005Previously in China, all land was controlled by the communes. Over the past twenty years, with the break up of the communes, new land tenure arrangements have given greater control over land to individual households.DocumentThe Second Fundher Report: Financial Sustainability for Women's Movements Worldwide
2007Where is the money for women's rights and how can we tap it? How could new resources be mobilised to build stronger feminist movements in order to advance women's rights worldwide? This report analyses the funding landscape for women's rights work, building on an earlier report published by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) in 2006.DocumentGlobalisation, Labor Standards and Women's Rights: Dilemmas of Collective (In)action in an Interdependent World
Taylor and Francis Group, 2004In the context of trade liberalisation and the deregulation of the labour market, there has been an emergence of a northern-based alliance demanding that certain minimum labour standards be observed by all multinationals. This paper questions the view that globally enforced labour standards are in the interests of workers everywhere.DocumentGender and Disability: A Survey of InterAction Member Agencies
Mobility International USA, 2002Do women and girls with disabilities participate in international development processes? What data is collected on their involvement? This survey of 165 United States-based international development organisations shows that 93 percent of respondent organisations do not know the extent of participation of women and girls with disabilities in their programmes due to insufficient data.Pages