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  Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, The Summary Report of The NGOs in Japan, Rev.2

  Japan NGO Network for CEDAW, 2003

  In July 2003, the Japan NGO Network for CEDAW (JNCC), made up of 19 non-governmental organisations (NGOs), submitted a series of reports to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. These documents were written following the submission of the Japanese government's 5th periodic report to the Committee in 2002.
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  New forms of citizenship: democracy, family, and community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Oxfam, 2003

  In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, many families live in illegal land occupations (favelas), housing projects and working-class suburbs. In the daily lives of most of these families, little change has been experienced under democracy as opposed to dictatorship. For some, life is more defined by violence related to drug-trafficking.
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  Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

  Oxfam, 2003

  One of the greatest barriers to achieving full citizenship rights for women is culture. If development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of ?culture? that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.
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  Women, nationality and citizenship

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  In the majority of cases, nationality is crucial to the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This has significant implications for those who do not have nationality such as stateless persons and refugees. However, looking at nationality also reveals numerous gender discriminations.
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  Role of men and boys in promoting gender equality

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2004

  This policy brief aims to provide policy makers, practitioners, business, and civil society leaders with a framework for developing strategies and implementing programmes to engage men in gender equality. It identifies the reasons why men have a stake in gender equality.
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  The Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP) Utilizing State Resources to Promote Women's Human Rights in Turkey

  New Tactics in Human Rights Project, 2005

  This notebook uses the case of Turkey to show how building collaborative relationships with government institutions can advance human rights education. Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR)-New Ways, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Turkey gained the support and use of government resources for furthering human rights education of women at the local level.
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  A Brief Overview of Women's Movement(s) In Turkey

  Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 1997

  Since the Ottoman Empire a variety of women's groups have sought to improve the rights of women in Turkey. Issues tackled have included the right to divorce and the prohibition of polygamous and arranged marriages. More recent history shows that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Quran formed the basis of family law and this heavily influenced women's status.
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  Rising up in response: women's rights activism in conflict

  Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, 2005

  Women's human rights activists make up the bulk of the frontline human rights and humanitarian response to armed conflict. They mobilise, individually and collectively, to address the urgent needs of conflict-affected populations, before, during and after the fighting. Yet their work is often invisible.
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  Rural households and resources: a pocket guide for extension workers

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This guide aims to assist extension and other community-based workers to apply a gender-responsive and participatory approach in their work with rural women and men. It should also be useful for development workers wanting to use the household as an entry-point to think about gender, livelihoods and resources in communities and within households.
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  Employment Policies to Overcome Poverty: Paraguay

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  How can employment policies reduce poverty and promote gender equality? What is the situation in Paraguay? Poverty impacts women and men differently, and is directly related to levels and patterns of employment.

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