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  Gender and Migration: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This collection is made up of summaries of overviews, case studies, tools and guidelines and other materials relating to gender and migration. Details of how to obtain copies or download the full texts are provided with each summary.
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  Gender Based Violence Study

  BRIDGE, 2005

  This report emphasises the need for more strategic efforts by organisations working in conflict areas to address both the short- and long-term realities and consequences of gender based violence (GBV).
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  Generating opportunities: case studies on energy and women

  United Nations Development Programme, 2001

  Energy poverty is a problem that has a disproportionate effect on women and girls, especially in rural areas. Many women in developing countries have to spend long hours gathering fuel and hauling water, using their own energy to carry heavy loads over long distances.
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  Notes on the gender perspective in financing for development and the Monterrey consensus

  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2004

  Since 2000, the international community has reached three fundamental agreements on financing for development: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); the IV Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), better known as the Doha Round (2001); and the Final Declaration of the International Conference on Financing for Development (ICFfD), know as the Monterrey Consensus (2002).
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  Progress of the world’s women 2005: women, work & poverty

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  Unless governments and policymakers pay more attention to employment and its links to poverty, the hope for gender equality will flounder on the reality of women's growing economic insecurity.
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  Gender and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration

  Conflict Research Unit, 2005

  The paper highlights a number of critical issues in the discussion on gender and disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR). Although much attention has been paid to women's roles in conflict prevention, resolution and post-conflict rehabilitation, less consideration has been given to women's roles in active warfare and to women who operate as combatants in armed conflict.
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  The Value of Advocacy in Promoting Social Change: Implementing the New Domestic Violence Act in South Africa

  2000

  South Africa's first democratic government passed the Domestic Violence Act (DVA) into law in 1998 as part of local and international commitments to protecting the human rights of women. Although the Act was welcomed as groundbreaking legislation, delays in implementing it led to increasing frustration.
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  Migrant Remittances, Development and Gender

  2005

  Although migration may generate a wide array of positive as well as negative consequences for development, remittances have recently become the single most emphasised evidence and measuring stick for the ties connecting migrants with their societies of origin.
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  An Information Guide - Preventing Discrimination, Exploitation and Abuse of Women Migrant Workers

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  More and more women, especially Asian women, are migrating legally or illegally for overseas employment.
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  The Migration-Trafficking Nexus: Combating Trafficking Through the Protection of Migrants? Human Rights

  Anti-Slavery International, 2003

  Men and boys as well as women and girls are trafficked, and gender affects who is trafficked and where. One study of 229 children trafficked from Benin to Gabon to work as domestics and market traders found that 86 per cent of those trafficked were girls. Girls were preferred by employers as they were seen as less likely to rebel as they got older.

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