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    Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Thirty-first session: Consideration of Fifth Periodic Report of Bangladesh. Summary records of the 653rd and 654th meetings

    2004
    Resources allocated to the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs in Bangladesh have increased fivefold in the last three years. This was one of the achievements flagged up by the delegation from Bangladesh as they presented their Fifth Periodic Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
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    Shadow Report to the Fifth Periodic Report of the Government of Bangladesh

    Steps Towards Development, 2004
    Has the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh delivered on their promises as a signatory of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
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    Girls and science: a training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers

    Education Sector, UNESCO, 2006
    What practical guidance and training is available for educators to help redress the under-representation and under-achievement of girls in science and technology subjects in African countries?
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    Women's Autonomy in India and Pakistan: The Influence of Religion and Region

    Population Council, 2001
    Do Hindu women have more autonomy over their lives than Muslim women in South Asia? And how about women from Pakistan compared to women from North or South India? This article compares the autonomy of women in different regions of South Asia?Punjab in Pakistan, Uttar Pradesh in North India, and Tamil Nadu in South India.
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    Women Leaders for a Local, Sustainable and Equal Development

    Bureau de la Cooperation Suisse au Niger, 2005
    How to ensure that women's needs and interests are taken into account in local community development processes in order to achieve sustainable development? In Niger, women's representation in decision-making institutions is very poor. Enhancing women's leadership would help to ensure that both women's needs and the common interests of women and men are met.
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    Niger Gender profile

    2006
    Niger has the second poorest living standards in the world, only surpassed by Sierra Leone. This African News Agency (Afrol) gender profile argues that little progress has been made in improving the situation of women's rights in Niger. Traditional practices, including the use of family or traditional courts, continue to regulate the living conditions of most women.
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    Thinking outside the Islamic Box: Linking Context and Credit in Muslim West Africa

    2004
    In West Africa, where several countries have large Muslim populations, the majority of women live at the economic margins and experience high levels of poverty. Generalisations are often made about women in Muslim countries, which assume that religion limits women's access to the resources that could help them move beyond poverty and exclusion.
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    The Terms of Women's Empowerment: Islamic Women Activists in Egypt

    American University in Cairo, 2003
    How do Egyptian women find empowerment in Islamism when Islamists are traditionally perceived as the opposers of women's liberation? This study contends that rather than being dominated and oppressed, Islamic women are empowered as a result of their willing submission to higher levels of religious attainment.
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    BRIDGE Bibliography 14: Women's Empowerment: An Annotated Bibliography

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    What is 'women's empowerment' and how can we measure it? How is the concept being used in policy and practice and what are the problems with existing approaches? This bibliography gathers together a range of resources which discuss women's empowerment from different perspectives in order to provide an accessible introduction to key concepts, approaches and debates.
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    WTO TRIPS Agreement

    International Labour Organization, 2003
    The TRIPS agreement is an overarching framework for a multilateral approach to intellectual property rights (IPR), in force since 1996. TRIPS means that use of plants, micro-organisms, biotechnological techniques, food and essential drugs can be restricted under patent protection.

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