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  A Voice of Our Own: Advocacy by Women with Disability in Australia and the Pacific

  Routledge, 2005

  Women with disabilities are largely invisible within women's rights and disability rights agendas. They do not generally benefit from international human rights laws and agreements, or from development processes. This is particularly evident for women in the Pacific region and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
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  Any Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?

  2005

  Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.
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  Achieving Women's Economic and Social Rights: Strategies and Lessons from Experience

  2006

  What are the greatest challenges that activists encounter in their efforts to improve economic and social rights for women? This Association of Women in Development (AWID) study, conducted in 2005, aimed to answer this question by interviewing 50 activists working in diverse settings all over the world.
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  Taking Stock: Afghan Women and Girls Five Years On

  Womankind, 2006

  Are the gains made on paper by women in Afghanistan matched by the realities on the ground? This third report in the 'Taking Stock' series finds that there have been some legal, civil and constitutional gains for women in Afghanistan over the last five years.
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  Access to Land in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Implications for the South African Black Woman

  Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2006

  Indigenous land tenure arrangements in South Africa have generally consisted of communal ownership. In this system, who benefited from the land depended on their status as family or clan head.
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  Stockholm Call to Action: Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights as a Development Priority

  United Nations Population Fund, 2005

  The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government of Sweden convened the high-level roundtable, ?Reducing Poverty and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights? on 11 and 12 April 2005 in Stockholm.
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  Women and Land Rights in Ethiopia: A Comparative Study of Two Communities in Tigray and Oromiya Regional States

  Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women, 2002

  While the majority of women in Sub-Saharan Africa and particularly Eastern Africa provide a living for their families on land, they largely do not own it. This comprises one part of a study on women and land in five countries in Eastern Africa - and was commissioned by the Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI).
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  Trade liberalisation policy

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  Trade liberalisation (decreasing restrictions on trade) has taken place through several policy frameworks over the past ten years. In addition to the rules of the WTO, trade liberalisation has also been a key factor of World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes. Advocates of such policies argue that trade liberalisation should increase a country's growth and incomes.
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  Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2003

  Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.
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  WTO TRIPS Agreement

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  The TRIPS agreement is an overarching framework for a multilateral approach to intellectual property rights (IPR), in force since 1996. TRIPS means that use of plants, micro-organisms, biotechnological techniques, food and essential drugs can be restricted under patent protection.

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