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    The Emergence of Feminism among Indian Muslim Women 1920-1947

    Oxford University Press, New York, 2000
    This book highlights the efforts of different agencies (the government, Christian missionaries, social reformers, and women themselves) in bringing about the emancipation of Muslim women in India. It also details the struggle of women to win the right to vote.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 12: Gender and Budgets

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    Why is progress towards gender equality so slow? In part, this is a failure to attach money to policy commitments. While government budgets allocate resources in ways that perpetuate gender biases, budgets also offer the potential to transform gender inequalities. The first article of this issue of In Brief shows how in recent years gender budget initiatives (GBI) have risen to this challenge.
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    Gender and Budgets: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    What lessons can be learned from the implementation of gender budget initiatives (GBIs) across the world? What tools are available to support successful implementation? This collection of resources on gender and budgets seeks to answer these questions.
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    Gender and Budgets Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    Everyone who has struggled to mainstream gender into public policy recognises that programmed action without money attached amounts to inaction. While government budgets allocate resources in ways that perpetuate gender biases, budgets also offer the potential to transform gender inequalities.
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    'East Meets West Feminist Translation Group': A Conversation Between Two Participants

    Mots Pluriels, 2003
    The build up to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women(FWCW) in Beijing 1995 opened new possibilities for women's organising in China. Through the eyes of two participants the story is told of the "East Meets West Feminist Translation Group", an informal but influential women's organisation set up in 1994 in Beijing.
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    Key Issues on Gender and HIV/AIDS in China

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Inequality, including gender inequality has fuelled the HIV/AIDS epidemic globally. The UNIFEM publication 'Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic' identifies how gender discrimination and inequality have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS, and how meeting CEDAW commitments to end gender inequality can help turn the HIV/AIDS tide.
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    Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, Concepts and Experiences

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002
    This publication contains papers from a high level international conference 'Strengthening Economic and Financial Governance through Gender Responsive Budgeting' held in Brussels in October 2001.
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    Customs and Excise

    2000
    How have women fared under trade liberalisation as workers, traders and consumers? This paper from the fifth year of the Women's Budget Initiative in South Africa, tackles customs and excise as a new area of gender budget analysis. It argues that South African women suffer from trade liberalisation (i. e.
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    Women and local government

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1996
    How can municipalities address their financial difficulties yet not overburden the poor, particularly poor women? This paper, one of a collection of four papers from the fifth year of the Women's Budget Initiative in South Africa, stresses that local government must have enough money to deliver what they are meant to deliver.
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    Women and Tax in South Africa

    2000
    What is the tax toll on women? Can taxation policy reduce income and wealth inequalities between women and men in South Africa? This paper, one of a collection of four papers from the fifth year of the South African Women's Budget Initiative, argues that the way in which the tax burden is distributed affects the welfare of individuals and households.

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