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    Resourcing for resilience: lessons from funding women's rights movements

    CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2015
    The last few years have seen two related trends: a marked shrinking of civil society space in a number of countries, and a greater recognition of the need for targeted and appropriate resources to support enabling
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    Protection in Europe for refugees from Syria

    Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford, 2014
    This policy note provides an executive summary of an accompanying policy briefing which considers the response of European countries to the refugee crisis in the Syrian region.
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    Releasing children’s potential and minimizing risks: ICTs, the Internet and violence against children

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2014
    The challenge of creating a safe online environment for children lies in developing a range of responses that strike the appropriate balance between maximising the potential of ICTs to promote and protect children’s rights while minimising the risk and ensuring children’s safety and protection.
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    Gender Research in Africa into ICTs for Empowerment (GRACE)

    How do women in Africa and the Middle East use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives?
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    Women, gender and the informal economy: An assessment of ILO research and suggested ways forward

    International Labour Organization, 2008
    This discussion paper provides an overview of the International Labour Organisation's (ILO) research on women, gender and the informal economy which was undertaken during the last two decades. It examines methodological and analytical frameworks used in various studies, identifies research gaps and proposes directions for future work.
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    The motherhood pay gap: A review of the issues, theory and international evidence

    International Labour Organization, 2015
    Evidence that mothers suffer a wage penalty over and above the penalty for being a woman raises concerns not only for gender equality but also for the capacity of societies to manage a sustainable balance between their economic aims of active female participation in paid work and the social aims of providing a fair distribution of income to support the reproduction and rearing of children.
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    International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) Statement on Maternity Protection at Work

    International Baby Food Action Network, 2014
    The International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) believes that all women should have the right to enjoy a safe and healthy maternity and to make informed decisions about their infants’ and young children’s feeding – including full support to exclusively breastfeed for the first six months and to continue breastfeeding until their child is two years or more.
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    Maternity and paternity at work: Law and practice across the world. Policy Brief.

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    The basis of this policy brief is 'Maternity and paternity at work: Law and practice across the world', a report by the International Labour Organsiation (ILO) on national legislative provisions covering maternity protection, including the extent to which national laws conform t
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    Maternity and paternity at work: Law and practice across the world. Full Report.

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    This study provides a picture of what has been learned so far about maternity and paternity rights across the world.
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    Breastfeeding: A Feminist Issue

    World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, 2015
    In this activity sheet the author answers key questions on breastfeeding and feminism in an interview format. This would be a useful resource for the basis of a group discussion.

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