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    Women's Entrepreneurship Development Capacity Building Guide

    BRIDGE, 2006
    This guide is designed to meet the needs for documentation to support Women's Entrepreneurship Development (WED).
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    Roma rights: Romani women's rights movement

    European Roma Rights Centre, 2006
    How do Romani women respond to some of the human rights violations they face? This current issue of Roma Rights issue examines this and other questions.
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    Roma rights: Romani women's rights movement

    European Roma Rights Centre, 2006
    This issue of Roma Rights (officially termed in the Czech Republic as ?citizens of Gypsy origin?) looks at the responses of Romani women to some of the human rights violations Romani women face.
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    Affirmative action and state capacity in a democratic South Africa

    Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2007
    Is the emigration of whites, corruption and the low degree of state capacity a result of affirmative action (AA) in South Africa? This paper suggests that critics of AA wrongly attribute most of the problems experienced by the democratic state to AA. By doing so, they ignore the multiple factors that constrain the capacity of the state to provide efficient services to citizens. Such as:
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    Global report: equality at work: tackling the challenge

    International Labour Organization, 2007
    In its most comprehensive report on discrimination to date, this International Labour Organisation (ILO) report provides a global picture of job-related discrimination, citing both progress and failures in the struggle to fight discrimination ranging from traditional forms such as sex, race or religion, to newer forms based on age, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status and disability.
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    Eldis key issues page: social protection and education

    Eldis Education Resource Guide, 2007
    Social protection refers to policies and programmes that aim to help address risk vulnerability and chronic poverty. There are a wide range of instruments used for social protection including income support, child grants, disability benefits, and pensions, as well as education focused tools such as scholarship, vouchers or school-based feeding programme.
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    Kenya National Adult Literacy Survey report

    UNESCO Nairobi Office, 2007
    This report presents the findings of a 2006 baseline survey on the status of literacy in Kenya. The survey used self reporting together with direct assessments of literacy competency skills, and was designed to assist in the development of indicators that can be used to design and assess progress on the implementation of education-related programmes.
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    Women with Disabilities: Accessing Trade

    Status of Women Canada, 2004
    How do trade policies in Canada affect women with disabilities? Disabled women already have a greater propensity to be on low incomes. Gender and disability combine to deepen inequalities in access to jobs and remuneration. This leaves many women with disabilities more reliant on public funded support.
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    Women in Canada: A Gender-Based Statistical Report

    Ministry of Industry, Canada, 2006
    What has changed in women's lives in Canada since the middle of the 20th century? This report presents the latest facts and figures on the status of women in the country. It gives detailed information on women's demographic profile, family status, health, educational attainment, labour force participation, income levels and experience of crime.
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    Disentangling The Web of Women's Poverty and Exclusion

    Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    The Canadian Government boasts eight years of budget surpluses but still there are increasing numbers of people living in poverty.

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