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  Expandir el Concepto de la Ciudadania de las Mujeres: la Vision de Pueblo y la Representaci¢n de las Mujeres Mapuche en Sernam? (?Expanding the Concept of Women's Citizenship: the People's Vision and the Representation of Mapuche Women)

  2000

  What difficulties do indigenous women's groups face in lobbying for gender equality?
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  Human Rights, Advocacy, and the Empowerment of Women: An Education and Action Project in the Yugoslav Successor States?

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 1999

  In Croatia widespread ethnic conflict has led to the large scale erosion of human rights, including women's rights. In this context, Be Active, Be Emancipated - Budi aktivna, Budi emancipirana, or B.a.B.e. - was set up to foster structural change towards ensuring women's full participation in society. B.a.B.e.
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  Legislative Advocacy for Women's Rights: Training Candidates for Local Elections in Cotabato, Philippines

  Centre for Legislative Development, 1999

  This legislative advocacy project was set up in Cotabato, where a large Muslim population had only recently started to become involved in political processes. The project's aim was to increase women's involvement in local government at this critical moment. Participants included farmers, health workers and school teachers, half of whom had no history of involvement in political activities.
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  Paving the Way to Justice: The Experience of Nagorik Uddyog (NU)

  One World Action, 2003

  Enforcing access to justice can be a fundamental and practical way of helping citizens to secure their rights and participation. Women and minority groups are notoriously excluded from legal recourse in formal channels due to both physical constraints - such as cost and location - and social factors like education, confidence and language.
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  Report on Legal Aid and Self Governance for Women in Community Alliance Building

  BRIDGE, 2001

  Development projects that enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship.
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  Policy Advocacy: The Case of Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA)

  BRIDGE, 2000

  The problem of gender-based violence is significant in Tanzania, and is increasing. The right of women to live free from such violence and their right to protection is fundamental to their citizenship - and the ways in which such protection is fought for is a demonstration of gendered citizenship practice.
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  Gendering Ethnicity: Implications for Democracy Assistance in Kyrgyzstan

  Routledge, 2002

  Since 1991, Western governments have been providing large amounts of democratic assistance to the Former Soviet Union yet few, if any, of the recipient countries have developed into genuine democracies. American and other Western powers expected democracy to prevent economic chaos and political conflict within and among states.
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  Gender and Citizenship in Central America: A different perspective

  2000

  How is women's citizenship currently understood in Central America? This paper provides an overview of gender and citizenship in Central America by placing it in the diverse socio-economic and political histories of the region.
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  Special Issue on Gender and Citizenship

  Taylor and Francis Group, 1997

  This special issue brings together some current theoretical debates on gender and citizenship in the climate of globalisation, including debates concerning the changing nature of people's individual and group identities and belonging.
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  Shifting Spaces: Women, Citizenship and Migration within the European Union

  Polity Press, 1998

  This book is based on a research project examining the gender dimensions of internal migration in the European Union (EU). The impact of EU membership on the citizenship experience of female EU nationals as they migrate from one member country to another is explored.

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