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    Cutting edge pack: gender and migration

    BRIDGE, 2005
    In 2000, 1 in every 35 people was an international migrant and half of these were women. The total numbers of people moving internally and the proportions of women among them are even higher. People's experiences of gender are central to the patterns, causes and impacts of migration. Gender roles, relations and inequalities affect who migrates, how, why, and where they end up.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 16: Gender and Migration

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Over the past four decades total numbers of international migrants have more than doubled but the percentage of the world population migrating has remained fairly constant. There are now 175 million international migrants worldwide or approximately 3.5 per cent of the global population -about half of whom are women.
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    Gender and Migration: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This collection is made up of summaries of overviews, case studies, tools and guidelines and other materials relating to gender and migration. Details of how to obtain copies or download the full texts are provided with each summary.
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    Streetwalkers Show the Way - Reframing the Debate on Trafficking from Sex Workers' Perspective

    BRIDGE, 2004
    Ending trafficking into sex work requires measures to ensure all brothel owners and managers abide by norms barring them from recruiting trafficked sex workers. Durbar, the West Bengal Sex Workers Collective, established local Self-Regulatory Boards in Calcutta in 1999 and later, across West Bengal.
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    Tackling the Causes of Trafficking

    Anti-Trafficking Centre, Serbia, 1990
    How can the causes of trafficking be addressed? The Anti-Trafficking Centre (ATC) in Belgrade, an NGO, works to combat trafficking from Serbia and Montenegro and the region by tackling the causes of trafficking such as gender-based violence, poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunities.
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    Interim Report on Women and Migration

    Committee on Feminism and International Law, 2004
    This report examines from a human rights and gender angle, the 'Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children'. This protocol, signed by 117 states and ratified by 62 states, came into force in 2003.
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    Albanian Masculinities, Sex work and Migration: Homosexuality, AIDS and other Moral Threats

    University College London Press, 2004
    Extensive interviews with Albanian migrants, including sex workers, in Italy and Greece, provide the groundwork for this piece. Particularly in the early post-communist years, migration to undertake sex work emerged as an important strategy of survival for many Albanian young men, despite the stigma associated with homosexuality.
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    Men Who Have Sex with Men and HIV in Vietnam: A Review

    Guilford Publications, New York, 2004
    Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam's urban centres are increasing in numbers and visibility. Although limited to a few surveys, the available data on MSM in Vietnam show that they are at increased risk of HIV infection due to high numbers of sexual partners, high rates of unsafe sex, and inconsistent condom use.
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    Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers

    Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003
    For some years, awareness about the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women in situations of war and armed conflict has been growing. As a result, humanitarian aid programmes are paying more and more attention to the provision of SRH services in the field, but a more holistic and integrated approach to SRH is often still lacking.
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    Traffic in Women in War and Peace: Mapping Experiences in Southeast Europe

    Taylor and Francis Group, 2004
    How concerns around prostitution and migration are politically framed can decide and formulate policy strategies, with neighbouring countries taking radically different approaches to legislation. Traffic in women entails situations of violence and social control, where the lines between migration, human trafficking and smuggling become blurred.

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