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  Gender Issues and Concerns in Financing for Development

  2004

  This background paper uses a gendered approach to examine the development financing strategies endorsed in the 2002 Monterrey Consensus document. The analysis points out that little recognition is given to the social costs and adverse consequences of the market-liberalization policies underlying much of the International Conference on Financing for Development (ICFfD) recommended actions.
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  Crossing Borders, Claiming Rights: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

  Social Sciences Research Network, 2005

  Intersectionality' is the concept that different identities and different oppressions intersect with each other. This article looks at the intersections between migration status, gender and other variables relevant to women who migrate for work, particularly to do domestic labour. Human rights treaty law is analysed from the perspective of these intersections.
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  Is There Life After Gender Mainstreaming?

  Oxfam, 2005

  In the world of feminist activism the time is right for reflection and review. Why is change not happening? What does work? Women have made many gains in the last decade, however gender equality is still not institutionalised in the day-to-day routines of governments nor international development agencies. Changes are needed in who does what, what counts, who gets what, and who decides.
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  Dying to be Men: Youth, Masculinity and Social Exclusion

  Routledge, 2005

  Young men are on the front lines of civil unrest, riots and gang warfare worldwide. The principal causes of death for young men are violence and traffic accidents, both of which are directly related to how boys are socialised (i.e., taught how to become a member of society). Because they are trying to live up to certain rigid models of masculinity they are, literally, dying to be men.
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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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  Knowing Our Rights: Women, Family, Laws and Customs in the Muslim World

  Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2003

  This publication is designed as a tool for activists engaged in lobbying and advocacy related to women's rights within the family at the policy level as well as in communities. It covers twenty-six topics relevant to marriage and divorce, including the status of children (paternity and adoption) and child custody and guardianship.
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  Sex for pleasure, Rights to Participation, and Alternatives to AIDS: Placing Sexual Minorities and/or Dissidents in Development

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  The term sexual minorities and/or dissidents is used here to describe lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people. These people have usually only been openly included or allowed to participate in the development industry in relation to HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS is an important entry point, but brings with it negative associations of sickness and stigma.
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  Strategies of Inclusion: Gender and the Information Society

  Research Centre for Social Sciences, 2004

  This European study explores initiatives to include women in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) through undertaking 48 case-studies of inclusion initiatives in the public and private sector. It argues that gender inclusion strategies (e.g. creating women-only training, networks and web magazines) need to challenge gender binaries and stereotypes.
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  World Summit on the Information Society: Potential for Addressing the Gender Digital Divide?

  2005

  Have the WSIS process and first Summit brought about a more gender equal information society? Did gender advocates succeed in incorporating their concerns into the WSIS process? What are the priority issues for gender advocates in the second Summit?
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  Women and ICT: Creating Global Transformation-An International Symposium

  University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2005

  How can stakeholders increase girls' and women's participation and leadership through ICTs to effect economic, social, and political change? To answer this question, 250 international participants came together for the First International Symposium on Women and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) held in Maryland, United States (US) in June 2005.

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