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  Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Fourth periodic Report , Chile

  United Nations, 2004

  Coordinated by the National Office for Women's Affairs (SERNAM), this report recounts measures taken, progress achieved, and difficulties encountered in implementing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Chile between January 1999 and December 2002.
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  Report on Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action Presented by the Government of Chile to the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women

  Government of Chile, 2004

  Chile has made progress in terms of coverage and access to education. Women have significant levels of education, which in some cases exceed that of men. Yet this progress is not reflected in occupational opportunities for women. Occupational segregation by sex means women tend to be confined to a smaller range of occupations usually associated with lower productivity and pay.
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  Women's Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF) (website)

  1990

  The Women's Network for a Sustainable Future (WNSF) provides a forum for business and professional women to congregate, reflect on and act upon the converging issues of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development.
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  A Gender Perspective on Core Labour Standards in Ethical Trading Initiative Company Supply Chains

  BRIDGE, 2004

  To what extent does having core labour standards help to address the specific concerns of women workers - for example, for child care provision, maternity benefit, safe transport?
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  Is there Anyone Listening? Women Workers in Factories in Central America, and Corporate Codes of Conduct

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

  Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a new 'buzzword'. An important development in CSR following consumer pressure in the North (for example boycotts) is the development of voluntary company codes of conduct.
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  Gender, Power and Post-structuralism in Corporate Citizenship. A Personal Perspective on Theory and Change

  BRIDGE, 2002

  There has been a remarkable spread of initiatives and standards relating to the concept of ?corporate citizenship? in recent years, both in the North and the South. Much of this activity has focused on trying to create legislative and policy responses to address problems of inequity and exclusion. Yet there has been little overt discussion of power.
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  Participatory Social Auditing: a Practical Guide to Developing a Gender-Sensitive Approach

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Female workers are more likely to be in insecure, non-permanent employment, with increased vulnerability to gender discrimination and sexual harassment. Participatory approaches to social auditing of compliance to labour codes can help us uncover such complex issues.
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  A Gendered Value Chain Approach To Codes of Conduct in African Horticulture

  2003

  Codes of conduct designed to regulate the employment conditions of Southern producers exporting to European markets were rapidly adopted throughout the 1990s - especially in the horticulture sector linking European supermarkets with export firms in Africa.
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  BRIDGE Report 40: Gender and empowerment: definitions, approaches and implications for policy

  BRIDGE, 1997

  What is women's empowerment' If women are empowered, does that mean that men have less power' Empowerment has become a new 'buzzword' in international development language but is often not well understood. This paper explains the different understandings of empowerment, and how empowerment strategies should be designed.
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  Towards multiparty system in Uganda: the effect on female representation in Politics

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006

  How much leverage do women in politics have in Uganda? Has the new multiparty system that is in power been beneficial to the defence and promotion of women's rights and to the women's movement? In this paper, the author considers the position of women in Ugandan politics, and analyses the effects of the electoral and multiparty system on women's political participation.

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