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    Women, the State and Labour Rights Activism: The Role of Women's Organisations in Improving Labour Standards in Nicaragua

    Central American Women’s Network, 2005
    Maria Elena Cuadra (MEC) is an NGO set up in 1994 by leaders of the Women's Secretariat of the Sandinista Workers' Central (CST) trade union in Nicaragua. MEC was established in the light of the failure of the union to take women's concerns into account. As MEC is an NGO not a union, they were initially excluded from formal labour negotiations.
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    Gender Impacts of Trade Policies in Latin America: Progress and Challenges for Research and Action

    2003
    What has been the impact of civil society on the formulation and implementation of trade agreements in the Americas? This paper offers an overview of gender and trade research - including on employment, gender segregation in the labour market, salary gaps, and the impact of trade on productive and reproductive spheres.
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    Gender Blindnessand Gender Discrimination in the Law on Work-related Injuries

    2004
    Twenty years ago a woman in her seventh month of pregnancy received an electric shock during her job. Although her wound was insignificant, the fetus was diagnosed with mental retardation of a third grade level. The woman filed a request with her unit for compensation for her work-related injury but to no avail.
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    Feminist Reflections on China's Criminal Law

    2004
    From a feminist perspective China's Criminal Law on the one hand manifests respect for women in that that it includes a whole battery of punishments for crimes against women; on the other hand, it manifests sexism in the legislators' sub-consciousness in that only women (and children) are considered at risk of being bought, sold, or raped, while such crimes against men are excluded.
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    Survey and Analysis on Gender Awareness among High-Level Decision Makers

    2004
    In 2004, the gender equality advocacy working group of the All-China Women's Federation conducted a survey of gender awareness of 242 ministerial and departmental-level decision makers. The survey found that these high-level decision makers have largely heard of terms such as ?gender? and ?gender mainstreaming? but do not necessarily understand their meanings.
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    Fair Trade: Gender Makes the Difference

    World Conservation Union, 2004
    Fair trade is crucial for sustainable development. It provides better trading conditions to marginalised producers and workers, particularly women. This short briefing note outlines the importance of ensuring that fair trade initiatives incorporate a gender perspective.
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    Class of Dialogues on Vagina Monologue: A Sum-up on the Pedagogy of Women and Gender Studies

    2004
    In the evening of 20 December 2002 teachers from more than 20 universities in China came to the classroom to watch graduate students' perform a multimedia presentation of dialogues from 'The Vagina Monologue'. The response to this taboo shaking class was both applause and censure. The first section of this article introduces the class design, teaching process, and reflections from the teachers.
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    Sex Lives in the Aids Era

    2004
    This book proposes that to prevent AIDS, instead of always just talking about risk, safer more enjoyable sex lives should be promoted. This book argues that the sex workers are not transmitters of HIV/AIDS but are the first line of victims. The real infectors are the men who go whoring and have other sexual partners. Among these the most dangerous infectors are the men who do not use condoms.
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    76.8% of the Sky: Gender, Poverty and Development in Hong Kong

    2005
    76.8% is the proportion of employed women in Hong Kong whose income was under the poverty line (5000 HKD) in 2003. In spite of the feminization of poverty, the government ignores gender equality in it's poverty alleviation strategy. The only issues tackled which address women's interests are children's poverty within the family, and trans-generational poverty.
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    Gender Analysis Based on a Theoretical Hypothesis on Methods for Mainstreaming Urban Poverty Measurements

    2004
    Mainstream urban poverty measurements make a basic theoretical assumption: 'equal distribution of poverty in the family', or 'equal grading of the consumption of basic living resources in the family'.

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