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    Steps for Effective Advocacy

    2003
    How can NGOs work to ensure that governments are implementing international law to protect women's rights? International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific have released this practical guide for NGOs who wish to use the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to hold their governments accountable for upholding and enforcing women's rights.
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    Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2003
    At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 governments pledged collective responsibility to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first being to halve world poverty by 2015, and the third to "Promote gender equality and empower women". This book provides evidence as to why promoting gender equality is essential for halving world poverty and realising all eight MDGs.
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    An Introduction to the General Agreement on Trade in Services for Gender Advocates

    2001
    This short piece provides an introduction to the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). GATS is problematic because it encourages the privatisation of public services and amenities such as water, healthcare and education; it threatens to overrule domestic laws where these are perceived to hinder free trade; and the propositions within the agreement remain untested.
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    Trade Liberalization: Impacts on African Women

    2001
    Trade liberalisation processes impact differently on men and women due to the fact that men and women have different roles in production. Despite the fact that women are actively involved in international trade, WTO agreements are gender blind and as such have adverse impacts on women.

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