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    Gender and Citizenship: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    Feminists and women's rights activists have sought to reframe citizenship from a gender perspective and to show how struggles for women's rights must be seen as citizenship struggles that affect everyone in society rather than ?minority interests?. This idea of citizenship has been used to tackle exclusion on the basis of gender, for example with political quotas and affirmative action.
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    Gender and Citizenship Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    There are those for whom citizenship is a site of achievement, of power and validation of their place in the world - a way of achieving positive change and gaining a better standard of living for all groups.
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    Acces Equitable a l'information (Equitable Access to Information)

    IGED Madagascar Gender Network, 2003
    This is one of two booklets produced to assist with gender mainstreaming in development cooperation in Madagascar. This is the second entitled 'Fair access to Information'. The participation of the whole population in development activities, including of course women, is vital if development is to be just and sustainable. So how does this come about?
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    Queering Development: Institutionalized Heterosexuality in Development Theory, Practice and Politics in Latin America

    Zed Books Limited, 2003
    This book chapter addresses how the social institution of heterosexuality shapes international development agendas, including the sub-field of gender and development. For example, women included in development frameworks such as household survival, rural development, subsistence agriculture and informal employment, are generally viewed as family-bound in a heterosexual set up.
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    Sexual Rights: Much has been said, much remains to be resolved

    2002
    In the ongoing United Nations (UN) debate on human rights and sexuality, sexual rights have been conceptualised in largely negative ways - in relation to issues of protection against pregnancy, rape, disease and violence. This paper calls for an inclusion of more positive aspects of sexual rights.
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    Alternative Report of Cladem Peru on the Implementation in Peru of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

    2002
    This shadow report, led by The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights -Peru (CLADEM-Peru), contributes to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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    CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of State Parties: Peru

    United Nations, 2001
    Peru's fifth submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) outlines the status of women in Peru. The government has faced difficulties changing attitudes that discriminate against women.
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    Cause for Great Concern: The Status of Reproductive Health in Peru

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2003
    Despite important advances in the last 40 years, are women's sexual and reproductive health rights being threatened? This newsletter, written by the Director of the San Mart¡n de Porres University Medical Clinic in Lima, Peru, highlights the ways women's sexual and reproductive rights are being undermined by the Peruvian government of Alejandro Toledo, who came to power in 2001.
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    Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health: a Subject as much for Men as for Women

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2003
    How are men involved in the sexual and reproductive health of women? This working paper of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) is an overview of research on the extent of men's participation in women's health.
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    Gender profile: Peru

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
    What is the condition of women in Peru? This gender profile by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offers a statistical overview of the condition of urban and rural women with respect to unemployment, status in the workplace, life expectancy and working and living conditions. Poverty is an ongoing concern and half the population continues to subsist below the poverty line.

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