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  Defending Women, Defending Rights. Proceedings of the International Consultation on Women's Human Rights Defenders

  2006

  Every day women human rights defenders around the world are subjected to abuses as they seek to protect their own rights, and those of the communities in which they live and work. This report is based on the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs), held in 2005.
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  Gender mainstreaming strategy for the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project

  Siyanda, 2003

  International experience has demonstrated that gender must be addressed if HIV/ AIDS prevention and care is to be effective. Overall, the China-UK HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project is moving in the right direction on gender by aiming for participation and empowerment of primary stakeholders.
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  Human development and Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) –Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women: mainstreaming gender equality and women’s empowerment

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  This report examines the status of women in Sudan, using the third Millennium Development Goal of women's empowerment as the framework. It begins with an overview of some key definitions, including gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment.
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  Fifth Periodic Report on Implementation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Japan)

  Government of Japan, 2002

  Japan's 5th periodic report on the implementation of the ?Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women? (CEDAW) covers the period May 1998 to April 2002. It was put together in consultation with a wide range of civil society groups.
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  Citizenship: towards a feminist synthesis

  Feminist Review, 1997

  This article outlines how citizenship can be used as a political and theoretical tool by combining 'rights' and 'participation'. Participation in social, economic, cultural and political decision-making provides a more dynamic and active form of rights in which people work together to improve their quality of life.
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  Women, citizenship and difference

  Feminist Review, 1997

  In a globalising world where the role of the local, the national and the global is shifting, the meanings of citizenship are also changing. This article presents some new theoretical discussions on gender and citizenship.
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  Whose Sexuality Counts? Politic Visions of the Poor and their Sexualities. The possibilities of Rights Based Approaches and Participation.

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Whose sexuality counts? This paper argues that the poor are often treated by development professionals as children without sexualities, rather than as citizens with a right to sexuality and pleasure. The development industry has only tended to engage with sexuality in relation to reproduction (not pleasure), or in relation to negative issues like HIV/AIDS.
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  The Basic Law for a Gender-equal Society (Law No. 78 of 1999)

  Government of Japan, 1999

  This law provides the basis of gender equality policy in Japan. The document lays out the principles for the formation of a gender equal society, clarifies responsibilities of the State, local governments and citizens and stipulates the provisions needed for the above.
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  Consideration of Reports of States Parties: 4th and 5th Periodic Reports of Japan (Draft)

  United Nations [UN] Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, 2003

  This report sets out the response of the United Nations 'Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women' to Japan's fourth and fifth periodic reports on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
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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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