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    Survey and Analysis on Gender Awareness among High-Level Decision Makers

    2004
    In 2004, the gender equality advocacy working group of the All-China Women's Federation conducted a survey of gender awareness of 242 ministerial and departmental-level decision makers. The survey found that these high-level decision makers have largely heard of terms such as ?gender? and ?gender mainstreaming? but do not necessarily understand their meanings.
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    Fair Trade: Gender Makes the Difference

    World Conservation Union, 2004
    Fair trade is crucial for sustainable development. It provides better trading conditions to marginalised producers and workers, particularly women. This short briefing note outlines the importance of ensuring that fair trade initiatives incorporate a gender perspective.
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    Business and Gender Equality Lessons from South Africa

    BRIDGE, 2002
    By promoting opportunities for women, employers improve their ability to secure quality personnel from a wider range of job applicants as well as using the different assets that both men and women bring to the workplace. More fundamentally, if business is to be sustainable in the long run, gender inequality needs to be taken more seriously.
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    Supporting Potential Women Exporters: A Case Study of the Northern Homebased Workers Network, Thailand

    APEC Committee on Trade and Investment, 2004
    The Thai Northern Homebased Workers' Network (NHWN) was founded in 2000 to support women producers of cotton woven fabrics, basketry, woodcarving and other traditional handicrafts. It is a network of 2400 members, 90 per cent women, from 64 village groups in nine provinces which aims to increase its members' collective bargaining power, skills, business management and leadership.
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    Sex Lives in the Aids Era

    2004
    This book proposes that to prevent AIDS, instead of always just talking about risk, safer more enjoyable sex lives should be promoted. This book argues that the sex workers are not transmitters of HIV/AIDS but are the first line of victims. The real infectors are the men who go whoring and have other sexual partners. Among these the most dangerous infectors are the men who do not use condoms.
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    76.8% of the Sky: Gender, Poverty and Development in Hong Kong

    2005
    76.8% is the proportion of employed women in Hong Kong whose income was under the poverty line (5000 HKD) in 2003. In spite of the feminization of poverty, the government ignores gender equality in it's poverty alleviation strategy. The only issues tackled which address women's interests are children's poverty within the family, and trans-generational poverty.
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    Women's Federation's Unempowered Participation in International Development Projects

    2004
    Women's participation is a requirement, in name, for the acquisition and implementation of large-scale international development projects. These projects, generally in practice, are implemented by the relevant departments of specific sectors of government.
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    Understanding Global Trade and Human Rights, Report and Resource Guide for National Human Rights NGOs in view of the 2005 WTO Ministerial Conference, Hong Kong

    2005
    What are the links between human rights and trade? How can human rights advocates reconcile the gap between their agenda and trade liberalisation? This report aims to increase understanding of the dynamics of global trade and the World Trade Organization (WTO) amongst human rights activists and to equip them with practical strategies for making human rights arguments in the trade arena.
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    Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policy-makers and Other Stakeholders

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004
    What is the relationship between gender inequality and work in the informal economy? How do we promote good working conditions for poor and vulnerable groups? Street vendors, workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and small farmers are quite visible in the informal economy.
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    Enhancing Women Entrepreneurship Through Export Growth - Issues and Solutions

    International Trade Centre, 2004
    Why are many women involved in local entrepreneurship activities yet very few involved in the export sector? Given the number of enterprises headed by women and their contribution to national economies, the capacity of women to contribute to economic growth is not being maximised.

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