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  Women's Human Rights: Violence against Women, Pornography and ICTs

  2005

  What are the connections between violence against women (VAW), pornography, and information communication technologies (ICTs)? This short position paper examines the recent debate on ICTs and pornography within the context of Internet governance.
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  Engendering ICT Policies in Africa WSIS Gender Caucus Efforts

  World Bank, 2005

  What has the role of the WSIS Gender Caucus been in engendering WSIS and its processes in Africa? This short document summarizes the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Gender Caucus (GC) engagement in Africa since December 2003.
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  Gender Mainstreaming in Development Cooperation Ireland Country Strategy Papers (CSP)

  Development Cooperation Ireland, 2005

  Development assistance is currently undergoing a shift from project-based funding to centralised support for national budgets. These new aid modalities are country-led and based on principles of donor coordination and policy dialogue.
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  Cutting edge pack: gender and migration

  BRIDGE, 2005

  In 2000, 1 in every 35 people was an international migrant and half of these were women. The total numbers of people moving internally and the proportions of women among them are even higher. People's experiences of gender are central to the patterns, causes and impacts of migration. Gender roles, relations and inequalities affect who migrates, how, why, and where they end up.
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  Towards Realistic Strategies for Women's Political Empowerment in Africa

  Oxfam, 2000

  Current NGO and development agency strategies to support women's political empowerment are based on two assumptions: firstly, that women's increased access to resources, especially education, will lead to their increased representation in political positions; and secondly, that governments are genuinely committed to leading national programmes of action for women's advancement.
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  Gender and ICT in the Philippines: A Proposed Policy Framework

  2003

  Many Filipino women are now using new information and communication technologies (ICTs), and have access to the economic opportunities created by the rapidly growing ICT sector. Yet a far greater number are still denied the benefits of these technologies due to historical economic, socio-cultural and political gender inequalities. The ?gender digital divide?
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  Good practices in combating and eliminating violence against women

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  Violence against women takes place in the family, the general community and is perpetrated or condoned by the State. Violence can take physical, sexual and psychological forms impacting on women's well being and the enjoyment of their human rights.
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  A problem by a different name?: a review of research on trafficking in South-East Asia and Oceania

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  This article reviews the existing research and literature on trafficking, particularly of women and children, in South-East Asia and Oceania - concentrating on those countries that are usually classified as destination countries in the region, including Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.
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  In the Classroom: Empowering Girls - Idea Book

  Peace Corps, 2001

  This book looks at strategies to increase girls' access to and participation in good quality school education. Designed for use by Peace Corps volunteers it also supports others acting as role models, technical specialists, health workers, teachers or counsellors. The book starts by outlining why it is important to look at girls' education and identifies some of the key issues.
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  Toolkit for Assessing and Promoting Equity in the Classroom

  2002

  This toolkit from the Equity in the Classroom Project is aimed at teachers, teacher trainers, school directors and others at the school level. The toolkit is designed to help conduct school-based research and teacher learning to identify factors that limit equitable participation and achievement in education and to provide strategies to improve curriculum and teaching. The tools include:

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