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The persistence of memory: feminism and the state in Peru in the 1990s
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000Peruvian feminism, along with the Brazilian and Mexican feminist movements, was one of the most visible women's movements in the region over the past decades.DocumentThe women food organisation and their relationship with government
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000The emergence of the women food organizations (WFO) at the beginning of the 1980s has increased the density of the social web of Peruvian society. The participation of the WFO in the national economy is significant, since it contributes 0.81% of the DGP, allows participation of 10% of the population, and moves more than 400 million dollars.DocumentCivil society and the invention of social policy: state, society and citizenship in the fight against AIDS
Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000HIV/AIDS is an analytically useful policy domain because of the uncertain, complex and highly contested nature of the public health interventions that were needed. This article examines the role of New York City's AIDS community in the development of local and national HIV/AIDS policies.DocumentMuslim Women In India
Minority Rights Group International, 1999This report argues that Muslim women are among the poorest, educationally disenfranchised, economically vulnerable, politically marginalized group in India.DocumentBriefing position paper on the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM)
Save the Children Fund, 2002Addressing health as an investment, rather than a right, prioritises those who are economically productive rather than the elderly, the disabled and the poorer women and children. At the recent G8 meeting the rich governments failed to pledge the $27 billion needed to re-establish basic health care systems in the poorest countries.DocumentHuman rights and democratic development in Africa: policy considerations for Africa's development in the new millennium
Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2002This paper argues that Nepad fails to adequately define democracy or to examine the relationship between development, peace, democracy and the realisation of human rights.DocumentSafety nets and opportunity ladders: addressing vulnerability and enhancing productivity in South Asia
Overseas Development Institute, 2002This paper aims to review literature on social protection measures in the context of India and Bangladesh. It explores whether some of the lessons learned from responses to vulnerability lend themselves to the notion of 'investment' in broader development goals.DocumentTaking stock: Afghan women and girls six months on
Womankind, 2002This balance sheet has been created to assess progress for Afghan women and girls over the months since the Taliban was removed from power.DocumentAfrican Scholars' Forum for Envisioning Africa: focus on NEPAD
WSSD Web Site of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2002Collection of papers from a forum organised by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, together with the Mazingira Institute and the African academy of Sciences.DocumentSocial exclusion and South Asia: A regional bibliographical review and India case study
International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO, 1995Regional report starts with a description of basic indicators of the five South Asian countries Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. . Section II discusses some basic concepts of poverty. In section III, the so-called direct and indirect approaches to poverty alleviation and economic growth are described.Pages
