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    Gender and Human Rights in the Commonwealth: Some Critical Issues for Action in the Decade 2005-2015

    Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004
    How can human rights instruments be used to combat gender inequality? This book brings together key papers commissioned to support the human rights section of the new Commonwealth's Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015.
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    Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

    Eldis, 2006
    Development agencies have long addressed issues of sexuality and reproduction. However traditionally they have dealt with them in largely negative ways. Whether through population programmes or the use of scare tactics in HIV prevention work, sexuality has been regarded as a problem that needs to be controlled rather than as a positive force that can be part of the solution.
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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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    Annotated bibliography: sexuality and human rights

    International Women's Health Coalition, 2002
    This bibliography provides summaries of 28 key materials on sexuality and human rights, and a list of further references. The summarised material provides an overview of the key issues in current work on sexual rights/sexuality and human rights.
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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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    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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    International Trade in Women's Agendas

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004
    What strategies could be used in gender and trade advocacy? Trade agreements are generally formulated and decided by governments without any input from civil society. Increasingly, though, civil society organisations have been involved in protests against international and regional free trade agreements that are not sustainable, and that are working against gender equality.
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    Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy

    Network Women in Development Europe, 2000
    Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.
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    Women, the State and Labour Rights Activism: The Role of Women's Organisations in Improving Labour Standards in Nicaragua

    Central American Women’s Network, 2005
    Maria Elena Cuadra (MEC) is an NGO set up in 1994 by leaders of the Women's Secretariat of the Sandinista Workers' Central (CST) trade union in Nicaragua. MEC was established in the light of the failure of the union to take women's concerns into account. As MEC is an NGO not a union, they were initially excluded from formal labour negotiations.

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