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    Gender and Development In Brief ‘Gender and Climate Change’ – edition 22

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move towards more
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    WIDE Statement to the 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

    Women in Development Europe, 2010
    In the present context of multiple global crises (economic, financial, food, energy, climate and care), this statement from WIDE expresses a concern that gender equality and enforcement of women's human rights are losing ground worldwide.
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    Website: Radio Internacional Feminista (RIF/FIRE) Costa Rica (in Spanish and English)

    Feminist International Radio Endeavour / Radio Internacional Feminista, 2008
    Radio FIRE (Radio Internacional Feminista) is a communications project produced by Latin American and Caribbean women living in Costa Rica. It communicates information and analysis from women's perspectives through campaigns, radio and the internet, promoting human rights, feminism, non-stereotyped images of women, respect for diversity and non-sexist communication.
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    Gender, Employment and the Informal Economy. Glossary of Terms (in English and Arabic)

    Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University, 2009
    The Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University is one of the first academic centres for the study of gender in the region. The Institute evolved from a long history of Palestinian women's activism and it aims to provide an academic underpinning to the debates around women's rights, gender relations and social policy in the local and regional context.
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    Género y Cambio en la Cultura Organizacional

    PROEQUIDAD, 2000
    Gender mainstreaming in development must be applied to projects and programmes as well as within development organisations. However, in order to be sustainable and profound gender mainstreaming within organisations must be applied to mental models, practices and behaviours, structures, regulations and procedures.
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    Women's Perspectives on Globalisation: Critical Approaches

    2006
    "This collection of articles aims to provide the francophone public with a critical feminist perspective on the policies and practices of development cooperation among international institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    Documentary: Stories of Change

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2009
    A testament to the resilience of human spirit, Stories of Change is a documentary about the lives of five women aging from 16 to 60, coming from different walks of life, from different professions, religions and regions of Bangladesh.
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    Unsafe Abortion: A Development Issue

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    Abortion is an increasingly controversial issue, provoking strong reactions both 'for' and 'against'. Language used in disputes over access to safe and legal abortion indicates the polarisation of debates: pro-choice versus pro-life; pro-abortion versus anti-choice.
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    Gender Equality and Social Institutions in Nepal

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008
    In most Nepalese communities, women's position is governed by patriarchal traditions, and conventional assumptions of women's role in society have been slow to change. In general, it is believed that a woman's place and role in Nepal is in the home, where the main duties include childrearing and household chores. Nepalese women also have limited access to education.
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    Reforming the Penal Code in Turkey: the Campaign for the Reform of the Turkish Penal Code from a Gender Perspective

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    This paper describes how the Turkish NGO, Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR), campaigned for gender-sensitive legal reform. WWHR established the Platform for the Reform of the Turkish Penal Code, comprised of women's and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) groups, in order to provide a strong basis for the campaign.

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