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  Intersecting Protections, Migrating Women: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice [New York University Law School], 2004

  With the growing feminisation of migration comes an increasing focus on the abuses women migrants face in sending and receiving countries. Much of the effort to combat these violations centres on urging states to ratify the Migrant Workers Convention (MWC), which came into force in 2003.
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  Violence Against Women in Morocco

  World Organisation Against Torture, 2003

  This shadow report to the Committee that monitors the Convention on the Elimination of All Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) focuses on part IV of Morocco's Second Periodic report to the Committee, addressing violence against women (VAW).
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  Targets and Indicators: Selections from Progress of the World's Women

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  This preview of UNIFEM's "Progress of the World's Women 2000" highlights the importance of targets and indicators for holding governments accountable for the fulfilment of commitments made to women in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).
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  NGOs? Report on the Implementation of the CEDAW Convention: A Parallel Report to the Periodic Report

  2003

  This report parallels the government's second periodic report of 1999. It finds that women's struggle to reform their status has not yet yielded results. The mobilisation to reform the Code for Personal Status and to establish a code for the family which is based on more egalitarian conjugal and family relations, has been slow and faced much resistance.
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  Second Periodic Report to CEDAW Committee- Morocco

  United Nations, 2002

  Many rights are already guaranteed by law, and government ministries and NGOs are taking initiatives to implement these. The Secretariat of State in charge of Social Protection, Family and Children, working with the World Bank, has prepared a national strategy for integrating women into development, as part of the follow up to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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  Achievements, gaps and challenges in linking the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals: report of the expert group meeting

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

  Independent experts were brought together by the Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) in Azerbaijan (7-10 February 2005) to identify strategic entry-points in the 2005 review processes to link the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), the Millennium Declaration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Why Might Women support Religious ?Fundamentalism??

  Women for Women International, 2004

  Religious fundamentalism is often associated with men, so much so that instances of women's support for religious fundamentalism are perceived as the exception. The tendency to assume that all women stand against fundamentalism unwittingly works hand in hand with the notion of women as 'natural' universal peace-seekers, nurturers and carers.
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  Gender, Citizenship and the Role of NGOs in Selected Gulf Countries

  United Nations, 2003

  Women's NGOs in the Gulf have been struggling for gender equality before the law, as guaranteed by the constitution, for several decades. Despite numerous political gains, considerable challenges still exist. This is due to the complex interaction between social, political and cultural affiliations and influences that qualify the role women's NGOs play in public life in the Gulf.
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  Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 10-year Review of Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action

  2004

  The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) held a meeting to provide a regional assessment for the 2005 Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). This document summarises the outcomes of this meeting, which will be the basis for the regional input at the Beijing +10 meetings at the Commission on the Status of Women in March 2005.
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  West African NGOs Report on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action

  2004

  This report summarises the outcomes of a consultation organised by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) through the African Centre for Gender and Development, contributing to the decade evaluation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).

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