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  Health and human rights

  The Lancet, 2003

  This feature consists of three seperate articles that address issues around the rights of sex workers The first piece, 'Public health and the human rights of sex workers ' argues that sex workers are often seen as immoral people or as victims of unscrupulous traffickers who exploit the lack of opportunities of deprivileged inhabitants of mostly poor countries and that public he
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  Targeting poverty through community-based public works programs: a cross-disciplinary assessment of recent experience in South Africa

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001

  This paper examines the performance of seven programs in Western Cape Province at involving community participation and at targeting the poor and women.
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  Women, the state and the travails of decentralizing the Nigerian Federation

  West African Review, 2000

  This essay focuses on Southern Nigeria. It examines how women were deliberately and consciously excluded from the political process and the extent to which they can participate in the political system as full citizens. It considers issues related to the meaningfulness of decentralisation, and the implications of unequal access that is built into the state structure.
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  Gender-responsive government budgeting

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This paper examines the concept of gender-responsive government budgeting (GRGB) and the extent of its implementation by national governments in both advanced and developing countries.The paper argues that in order for GRGB to be fully effective, obstacles such as gender-biased culture, the lack of appropriate budget classifications, and the lack of gender analysis expertise and gender-disaggre
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  Hands not land: how livelihoods are changing in rural Bangladesh

  Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2002

  This book provides some ideas for development practitioners on how to approach the challenge of the eradication of poverty in Bangladesh. Its origins lie in a study of rural livelihoods commissioned in 2000-2001 by DFID UKThis book is an overview of research papers that examine the life and livelihoods of people living in rural Bangladesh.
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  Gender analysis and interpretation of barriers to women's participation in Ghana's decentralised local government system

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2001

  To what extent does decentralisation to local government provide the opportunity for women to participate in local Political Decision-Making Positions (PDMP)?
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  The role of local authorities in implementing health care with a gender perspective: the case of the Women's Total Health Care Program, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 1999

  In Brazil, relationships developed by public health providers with users are impregnated with a culture based on hierarchy between the genders both at decision-making and service provision levels. This paper discusses the role of local governments in introducing a gender perspective to the implementation of women’s health care policies and programs.
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  "We want to live as humans": repression of women and girls in Western Afghanistan

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This report argues that post-Taliban Afghanistan has failed to lift the severe restrictions and violations on women and children's human rights. This is due to the fact that in many areas Taliban officials have been replaced by warlords, police officers, and local officials with similar attitudes toward women.
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  Suffering in silence: the links between human rights abuses and HIV transmission to girls in Zambia

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This document reports on high rates of sexual violence and coercion against girls in Zambia as a significant causal factor in the extremely high rates of HIV infection among that group.The report documents girls' testimonies of several categories of abuse that heighten girls’ risk of HIV infection, includingsexual assault of girls by family members, particularly the shocking and all too
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  Los viajes de los feminismos en Colombia (1980-1999)

  Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000

  The main purpose of this report is to present an evaluation of the process during which a sensitive outlook on gender subordination and discrimination opened a path through Colombian institutions and civil society. The manner in which second wave feminist discourse started to circulate in Colombia and foster the formation of diverse and specifically feminist movements is reconstructed.

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