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  Gender and Trade Cutting Edge Pack

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Trade and trade liberalisation have very different impacts on women and men - which can result in fundamental shifts in gender roles, relationships and inequalities. Moreover increasing claims that countries should be enabled to 'trade their way out of poverty' means that there is an urgent need to address how trade can promote gender equality and development.
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  Spotlights on rights: reproductive rights and community action in Colombia: an exercise in social accountability

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004

  This briefing describes a community-based sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) initiative carried out by the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) in Columbia, India and Malaysia. Concrete illustrations are given of project activities. For example, in Monteria, Columbia, a youth leaflet and video was produced to raise awareness of people's rights.
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  Gender and Citizenship: What Does a Rights Framework Offer Women?

  BRIDGE, 2000

  This article describes how the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action have been used by an NGO in Bangladesh to mobilise around issues of violence against women (VAW) and reproductive health.
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  Lessons from gender-focused international aid in post-conflict Afghanistan…learned?

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005

  The empowerment and liberation of Afghan women has been a key priority of the reconstruction process in Afghanistan since 2001. Yet Afghans have expressed increasing disappointment with the aid community, particularly in relation to women's issues.
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  Promoting Gender Equality. A Resource Kit for Trade Unions

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This toolkit has been designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members and ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals . Trade unions have a role in protecting workers from all types of discrimination, including that based on gender.
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  GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  This training package is designed for ILO partner organisations to promote women's enterprise development, particularly for those women in poverty who want to start or already have a small-scale business.
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  Instruments for Gender Equality in Trade Agreements: European Union - Mercosur - Mexico

  Network Women in Development Europe, 2001

  This document proposes a set of indicators which allow an initial analysis of the effects of trade policies and expansion on women and gender relations. In particular these indicators are instruments with which to evaluate the effects of the EU's current trade policies and of the trade agreements between Mexico and the EU and between Mercosur and the EU.
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  Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA) Social Impact Monitoring Framework

  2005

  Pacific countries are increasingly participating in various trade agreements, both regional and international. To date, the potential social/gender impacts of these trade agreements have not been significantly factored into trade negotiations, nor closely monitored.
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  Trade Impact Review

  2002

  This tool provides an extensive overview of the literature and frameworks to analyse gender-differentiated impacts of new trade and investment agreements undertaken by the United States (US) prior to their negotiation and signing. A framework is then proposed that accounts for both the economic as well as legal effects of trade agreements on women and men.
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  Gender and Trade Indicators

  2002

  This Women in Development Europe (WIDE) information sheet - aimed at governments, trade policy makers, the WTO and academic researchers - is designed to assist efforts to measure and monitor the relationship between trade and gender. This tool consists of three sets of indicators, which can be applied to an analysis of any trading relationship between countries or trade blocks.

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