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    Sexual and Economic Justice: Toward a vision of sexual and economic justice

    Barnard Centre for Research on Women, 2008
    This paper arose out of a 2007 lecture and colloquium at Barnard College, which aimed to articulate connections between struggles for economic justice and for sexual justice, and to develop new ideas about how different social movements could come together.
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    Feminists on the Frontline: Case Studies of Resisting and Challenging Fundamentalisms

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008
    This is a collection of case studies about women and men around the world who have stood up to reject religious fundamentalism. In 2008 AWID launched a call for proposals to document the strategies of women's rights activists in this area. The case studies presented here are drawn from a wide range of religious and geographical contexts.
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    Observatorio de Igualdad de Genero en America Latina y el Caribe

    Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
    Women’s autonomy in the private and public spheres is fundamental to ensure they can exercise their human rights. ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean – CEPAL in Spanish) is managing a programme monitoring how countries in the region fare to achieve gender equality.
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    Pop Culture with a Purpose: Edutainment media for social change

    Oxfam Novib - Knowledge Infrastructure for and between Counterparts portal, 2010
    What is ‘Edutainment’? It is an abbreviation for ‘Entertainment-Education’, which is a communication-centred strategy to bring about positive social change.
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    National mechanisms for gender equality and empowerment of women in Latin America and the Caribbean region

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010
    In the diverse region of Latin America and the Caribbean, there can be no fixed model on how national mechanisms for gender equality should work. The creation of these mechanisms in the region was a relatively late and unequal phenomenon, emerging after a period of antidemocratic and authoritarian governments, internal strife and violent political struggles.
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    Los derechos de las mujeres en clave feminista: Experiencias del Cladem

    Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru, 2009
    In 2009, the Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights) (CLADEM) celebrated 20 years of fighting for women’s rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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    Gender Identity in Motion: Life Stories of Adolescent Women in Marginalised Areas

    Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, 2002
    Neo-liberal policies have brought about transformations which have affected the way people live, interact and experience their gender identity. Adolescent girls are particularly affected by such transformations. In this study a number of adolescent girls in both rural and urban areas in Chile were interviewed to find out how young women deal with conflicting pressures in their daily lives.
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    Women’s Human Rights in Guatemala: A Diagnostic study. Equality, Development, Cultural Freedom

    Instituto de Derechos Humanos, 2006
    For women to be fully included in democratic processes in Guatemala their human rights, which have been systematically violated for a very long time, have to be fully integrated into new public policies that promote social transformation and ensure that diversity and equality go hand in hand.
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    Female Genital Mutilation and Human Rights in Africa

    Labrys, 2004
    It is estimated that approximately 115 million women worldwide face genital mutilation in the name of cultural and religious traditions. While generally practised on young girls, female genital mutilation (FGM) can also be practised on adults. It occurs particularly in Africa among all ethnic groups and religions. It also takes place in other parts of the world, however, including Europe.
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    Crosses and Shadows: Profiles of Conservatism in Latin America

    Asociación Colectiva por el Derecho a Decidir, Costa Rica, 2005
    In Latin America the influence of religious fundamentalism in politics is the main obstacle to women's right to decide over their bodies and their lives. This paper provides examples of ways in which fundamentalists organise to create a climate of fear or silence around key issues such as family planning, abortion, sexuality, domestic violence and the lack of equality in family roles.

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