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  Meaning and Contents of a Legislative Agenda for Developing Women's Rights

  E-Mujeres.net, 2006

  This report analyses the progress made by Latin American and Caribbean countries in the achievement of women's rights at constitutional, legal and institutional levels.
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  Women's Access to Markets: Vulnerabilities and Constraints

  2003

  Traditionally markets have been off-limits to women in Bengali society. In present day Bangladesh, culture-based gender bias compounded by poverty continues to hinder women's access to markets. In rural areas in particular, women who go to the market are viewed as ?bad? women.
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  Shadow Report to the Fifth Periodic Report of the Government of Bangladesh

  Steps Towards Development, 2004

  Has the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh delivered on their promises as a signatory of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
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  Participatory monitoring: guidelines for practitioners in the fight against human trafficking

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Participatory Monitoring (PM) tools are used as far as possible in the International Labour Organisation's project to combat trafficking in children and women in the Mekong sub-region. This toolkit, based on materials field-tested by project staff, has been designed to help monitor the project's progress, track trafficking and identify good practice.
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  Gender Briefing Kit UN System in Timor-Leste

  BRIDGE, 2005

  This booklet is a 'who's who' user guide providing baseline information on how gender issues are addressed within the work of the United Nations (UN) Country Team in Timor-Leste (East Timor). It is a publication of the UN Mission for East-Timor, whose mandate ended in May 2005.
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  HIV/AIDS-stigma and violence reduction intervention manual

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2006

  This manual, developed in India, discusses how participatory learning and action (PLA) can be applied to combatting violence and stigma around HIV/AIDS. Two new tools are developed for this purpose, building on PLA: community-led action research, and transformatory workshops.
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  Allies for Social Change: An International Buddhism and Peacebuilding Course for Women

  2006

  International Women's Partnership for Peace and Justice (IWP) is a spiritual feminist organization which supports grassroots activists and organizations in South and Southeast Asia in their work for peace and justice.
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  Female Suicide Bombers

  McFarland Publishers, 2006

  Celebrated as liberators and martyrs by those who support their cause and denounced as terrorists by their opponents, suicide bombers have become all too common in violent conflicts worldwide. The female suicide bomber is a relative newcomer to the landscapes of war, but more and more women are being recruited for self-sacrifice.
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  Trade liberalisation policy

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  Trade liberalisation (decreasing restrictions on trade) has taken place through several policy frameworks over the past ten years. In addition to the rules of the WTO, trade liberalisation has also been a key factor of World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes. Advocates of such policies argue that trade liberalisation should increase a country's growth and incomes.
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  Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2003

  Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.

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