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  Follow-up to the Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties-Argentina

  2004

  The economic, social and political crisis that Argentina has suffered since mid-1998 has had a severe negative impact on the situation of women. It caused a sharp increase in the percentage of poor and extremely poor women, in maternal mortality and female HIV/AIDS infection rates, and in sex crimes, such as trafficking for the purposes of prostitution.
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  Fifth Periodic CEDAW Report - Bangladesh

  2003

  Despite numerous positive advancements, patriarchal values and practices still limit Bangladeshi women's opportunities for education and employment. They also place them at a greater risk of violence in the form of rape, acid attacks and trafficking. Bangladesh is one of seven countries in the world where the number of women is less than that of men.
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  Pakistan Enhanced HIV/AIDS Program: Social assessment and mapping of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Lahore, Pakistan

  Naz Foundation International, 2002

  Expressions of affection between people of the same sex are easily accepted in Pakistan but in contrast, women's contact with men is controlled and socially policed. Many men have sexual relations with each other, and finding male sexual partners is easy.
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  Trafficking of Women and Children in Indonesia

  International Catholic Migration Commission, 2003

  In Indonesia, counter-trafficking measures have been inhibited by the fact that in many cases 'trafficking' is not considered exploitative. This comprehensive report argues that broadening the definition of trafficking from prostitution to include migrant work, domestic work, sex work and mail order brides can ensure that these forms of exploitation are also addressed.
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  Trafficking of Women for Sexual Exploitation: A Gender-Based and Well-Founded Fear?

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2003

  Trafficked women suffer major human rights abuses. However, European governments are primarily concerned with cutting the number of migrants and refugees to pander to popular racist sentiments. The human rights of those trafficked are not of concern to these governments.
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 14: Gender and Citizenship

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  How can working with ideas of citizenship help promote gender equality? Starting from the perspective of people as citizens can enable development actors to support struggles for rights and participation for those marginalised on the basis of gender.
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  Gender and Citizenship: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Citizenship is an abstract concept and therefore great care must be taken in explaining what it means in practice and what can effectively be done in the context of development interventions and policy. Development projects which enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship.
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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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  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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