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  The Central American Free Trade Agreement: Gender Perspectives and Women's Action

  2004

  This report provides a preliminary gender analysis of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) between the U.S. and El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica (with the imminent addition of the Dominican Republic).
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  Gender, education and child labour in Lebanon

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  Studies in Lebanon indicate gender inequalities in schooling and the child labour systems. Among the poor, boys are more likely to have access to quality education, such as private schooling. However, boys are also more likely to leave school earlier than girls to assume the role of family breadwinner.
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  Gender and Migration in Arab States: The Case of Domestic Workers

  BRIDGE, 2004

  Domestic work is the single most important category of employment among women migrants to the Gulf States, as well as to Lebanon and Jordan. As much as 81 percent of all women migrant workers from Sri Lanka and 39 percent from the Philippines to Arab League countries are being attracted by this large 'domestic work' market.
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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  Women in the People's Republic of China: Country Briefing Paper

  Asian Development Bank, 1998

  While the transition to a social market economy has benefits for women, there are indications that the adoption of the market-oriented reforms has also resulted in gender inequality. Women workers in the People's Republic of China (PRC) are likely to be laid off first and have restricted access to more secure jobs.
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  Rulemaking and Governance for Trade Intensification Asian Women's Views

  2003

  This economic literacy pack, the third in this series, is a tool for educating local women's constituencies on trade rules and negotiations. It explores four main themes, firstly 'How the WTO Treats National Health Emergencies in the Rubric of Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)'.
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  An Analysis of the WTO-AOA Review from the Perspective of Rural Women in Asia

  2003

  How does the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Agreement on Agriculture (AOA) affect the livelihoods of rural women in Asia? This paper, prepared on the occasion of the WTO-AOA review in 2003, analyzes the impact of the new trading rules imposed by the WTO on Asian peasants.
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  A Strategic Approach to Gender, Trade Agreements and Trade Policy

  2003

  It is often claimed that trade agreements, policies and liberalisation processes are gender and class neutral. However gender biases in the division of labour, in access to economic resources and in socially prescribed roles, usually impact women more negatively than men.
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  International Gender and Trade Network: WTO Fifth Ministerial Meeting, Cancun, Mexico, September 10-14th, 2003 (Position Papers on Four WTO Issues)

  2003

  The IGTN Advocacy Document for the 5th WTO Ministerial Meeting that was held in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003 focuses on these four issues and identifies critical advocacy positions for each of them.

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