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  Towards Gender Equality in the Palestinian Territories: A Profile on Gender Relations

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999

  The situation of women in Palestine must be examined in the political context of transformation. This report from research conducted at the Institute of Women's Studies, Birzeit University was undertaken at the critical point of the end of the five-year transitional period mandated in the Oslo agreement. The report seeks to strengthen the link between development and rights-based approaches.
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  The Globalized Women: Reports from a Future of Inequality

  Spinifex Press, 1998

  Globalisation has led to growth without jobs in the North, structural adjustment in the South, privatisation in the East and the dismantling of states everywhere. It is also a process which depends on the feminisation of employment. Rather than liberating women in to the workplace, globalisation has bred a new underclass of low paid or unpaid women workers.
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  Moving the Goalposts: Gender and Globalisation in the Twenty-first Century

  Oxfam, 2000

  The ability to grasp the best opportunities brought about by the expansion of global trade and production are determined by women and men's different degrees of freedom to take on waged employment and their level of skills and training, including literacy. Women (and men) who have responsibilities for unpaid reproductive work are constrained in pursuing waged employment.
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  A Gender-analytical Perspective on Trade and Sustainable Development

  United Nations, 1999

  Gender discrimination, exacerbates the tendency of trade to increase overall inequality within and between nations. Gender discrimination also affects the price and income trends, which are unfavourable to development in primary commodities and in basic manufactured goods.
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  Women in Uzbekistan: Country Briefing Paper

  2001

  The economic transition in Uzbekistan has brought about worrisome trends in women's socio-economic status: the feminization of poverty, including higher levels of women's unemployment, deteriorating health and education status of women due mainly to the increasing cost of social services and other socio- economic factors.
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  Women in Thailand: Country Briefing Paper

  1998

  The economic recession in Thailand will have a major impact on women, who are generally among the most vulnerable in the workforce in both public and private sectors. A particularly serious issue will be the sharp increase in female unemployment during the reform period.
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  Women in Tajikistan: Country Briefing Paper

  2000

  Under the Soviet system, women enjoyed equal civic rights to men. The levels of labour force participation of Tajik women was high and political representation was higher than in most western European countries.
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  Women in Pakistan: Country Briefing Paper

  2000

  Women's situation in Pakistan vis-?-vis men is one of systematic subordination, determined by the forces of patriarchy across classes, regions, and the rural urban divide. The prevailing ideology of the sexual division of labour has placed women in reproductive roles as wives and mothers in the private arena of the home.
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  In Unity There is Power, Processes of Participation and Empowerment

  2000

  This training module is a result of the work undertaken by the 'Toward Equity' project-World Conservation Union/Arias Foundation and is part of a series. It is intended to be used by specialists involved in training facilitation activities and focuses on the analysis of power as an inequality factor and on its implications in rural development initiatives.
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  Conceptual Framework for Gender and Community-Based Conservation

  Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis, 1999

  The MERGE programme (Managing Ecosystems and Resources with Gender Emphasis) is a collaborative network of Latin American organisations involved in applying a gender, participatory focus to work with communities in the management of natural resources. It is mainly focused on developing training and technical assistance programmes.

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