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    Global Human Rights and Trafficking in Persons: A Handbook

    2000
    This handbook is for NGOs, activists and other people who come into contact with trafficked persons or who are interested in the issue of trafficking. It is a broad-based manual, containing general strategies that can be easily adapted to local contexts.
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    Resources and Contacts on Human Trafficking

    Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons, 2005
    Extensive contacts and references built up from the work of the Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons (IATP) are provided in this collection, which includes abstracts on a range of issues relating to trafficking: international and regional treaties including UN treaties and ILO treaties, laws and policies for all world regions, reports and articles organised by regions, materials on traffickin
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    Women, violence and health

    Amnesty International, 2005
    Globally women and girls are regularly beaten and sexually abused by intimate partners, family members, neighbours, and by strangers. Women also suffer gender-based violence during and after conflicts and wars. This paper examines how gender based violence is perpetrated, in physical and social forms, in families, in communities, and during and after conflict.
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    Crossing borders: remittances, gender and development

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2005
    This paper is INSTRAW's contribution to the current debate on the link between remittances and development. Its purpose is to present key elements for the development of a preliminary framework that will strengthen the understanding of the interrelationships between migration, gender, remittances and development and also serve as an entry point for future research and project proposals.
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    Engendering ICT toolkit

    World Bank, 2005
    Why should ICT projects incorporate gender concerns? Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be highly valuable tools for advancing women's social, economic and political status. Yet gender-based inequalities continue to restrict many women's ability to take advantage of ICTs to better their lives.
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    Data and research on human trafficking: a global survey

    International Organization for Migration, 2005
    How can the hidden problem of human trafficking be accurately measured? One main challenge in the study of human trafficking is that victims/survivors of trafficking for sexual exploitation, traffickers and illegal migrants are part of a ?hidden population?. This makes it almost impossible to establish a sampling frame and draw a representative sample of the population.
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    Expanding the Care Continuum for HIV/AIDS: Bringing Carers into Focus

    Population Council, 2004
    Who cares for the carers? This question is at the heart of this paper, which sets out to provide a review of existing literature on unpaid care work in the context of HIV and AIDS. What it found was a resounding silence; that the role of women in HIV care outside the health sector is largely taken for granted by policymakers and programme planners.
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    Gender and Energy for Sustainable Development - A Toolkit and Resource Guide

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2004
    About 2 billion people throughout the world rely on traditional fuels (e.g. wood, charcoal, dung, and agricultural residues) for cooking, lighting and heating. Women and girls are responsible for collecting these fuels in many developing countries. They spend considerable time and effort doing this which greatly limits their ability to engage in educational and income-generating activities.
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    Equality and Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Guide to Implementation and Monitoring Under the ICESCR

    International Women's Rights Action Watch, 2004
    The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) states that economic, social and cultural rights are critical to the survival and development of human potential. By asserting that all human rights are to be enjoyed without discrimination on the basis of sex, it also makes such rights central to the implementation of women's human rights.
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    The Millennium Development Goals A Feminist Development Economics Perspective

    2004
    Why is it important to analyse the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Progress Reports through a gender lens? What can feminist economics tell us about how to make progress on gender equality through the MDGs? MDG 3, to Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women, has as its target the elimination of gender disparity in education.

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