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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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  Surveys and Suggestions on the Protection of Mobile Women's Family Planning/ Reproductive Health Rights and Interests

  2004

  The current management and services of family planning/reproductive health has limited coverage. Many mobile unmarried adults do not have access to services, neither do a significant proportion of married women of childbearing age. This study is based on focus group and personal interviews in selected counties and districts in Anhui, Shanghai, Beijing, Hubei, and Henan.
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  A Study of Gender Inequality in Rural Women's Development and their Free Time

  2004

  The relation between free time and gender inequality has been ignored by both studies of free time and by women's studies.
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  How Can Women Village Officials Deal with Crises in Village Management?

  Rural Women Knowing All, 2004

  How to deal with crises' was the theme of a field workshop held in 2004 by the Support Network for Women Village Heads. Issues discussed included - ?After the village head was assaulted,?? ?When many villagers appealed to the higher authorities for help,? ?When pollution compensation fees cause trouble,? and ?Facing problems of collecting taxes?.
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  A Practical Manual on Rural Women's Participation in the Elections for Village Committees

  2004

  This is the first systematic teaching material on rural women's participation in village autonomy. Written by women experts, this book focuses on rural women's participation in elections. The book is based on the perspectives of law, policy, theory, and practice.
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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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  BRIDGE Report 42: Global Trade Expansion and Liberalisation: Gender Issues and Impacts

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998

  Do women work more or less when countries trade more? Do trade expansion and economic liberalisation affect women and men in different ways'? Case studies from Ghana, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Jamaica are used in this report to illustrate some of the gender dimensions relating to trade.
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  Labour and Social Issues Relating to Export Processing Zones, Report for discussion in the Tripartite Meeting of Export-Processing Zone-Operating Countries

  International Labour Organization, 1998

  It is now widely understood that women make up the majority of workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) - areas dedicated to the mass production of export commodities such as garments and electrical goods in large factories. The labour and social concerns of female workers differ from those of men.
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  Neolibs, neocons and gender justice: lessons from global negotiations

  United Nations [UN] Research Institute for Social Development, 2005

  The subject of this United Nations Research Institute for Social Development report concerns the interplay between neoliberal economic thinking and attempts to negotiate a progressive social agenda.
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  Written Out: How Sexuality is Used to Attack Women's Organizing

  International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2005

  Women mobilising for gender equality are sometimes accused of being 'not proper women', lesbians, promiscuous. Such attacks aim to undermine such women, as well as reinforce ideas about what is proper behaviour for women.

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