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  Women's Reproductive Rights in Senegal: A Shadow Report

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2001

  This report shadows the periodic report of the government of Senegal to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights during its 26th session. Principal areas of concern are access to reproductive health care, family planning, abortion, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections, violence against women, female genital mutilation (FGM), and inequalities in marriage, work and education.
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  From Beijing to Addis Ababa: What Progress for African Women?

  Pambazuka, 2004

  How far has Africa moved towards fulfilling the goals set out in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA)? This paper sets out some priority areas of the BPfA including health, education, involvement in public decision-making structures, armed conflict and eliminating violence against women.
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  Alternative Report to the UK Questionnaire Response of Progress of the Platform for Action and the Outcome of the Twenty-Third Session of the General Assembly

  2004

  The UK government's report on progress in achieving gender equality and women's empowerment as set out in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) masks large regional variations between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Women's European Platform (NIWEP) identifies areas where Northern Ireland (NI) in particular falls behind.
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  Words and Deeds: Holding Governments Accountable in the Beijing + 10 Review Process

  Equality Now, 2004

  Women's right to equality has been repeatedly affirmed by governments in international treaties, declarations, and conferences, as well as in domestic constitutions. Nevertheless, discrimination against women continues worldwide.
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  Joint parenting - Lobbying in Senegal

  Famafrique, 1990

  The family code in Senegal, put in place in 1972, contains several items which discriminate against women in relation to family, health, work, the tax system, nationality and other areas. These violate the principles of equality in the national constitution and the international treaties Senegal has signed.
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  The Solidarity Economy: A Way to Reduce Inequalities between Men and Women?

  Genre en Action, 2005

  The market economy is not easy on women trying to reconcile family and work life without access to the same rights as men. A possible alternative is the 'solidarity economy' - economic enterprises undertaken not for profit but for benefit of a collective. These include crafts, small enterprises such as shops, cafes, entertainments or finance services.
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  Africa: Land for the Women who Farm it

  Syfia International, 2003

  Women do 70 per cent of the agricultural work in Senegal, but according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), own only two percent of the land that may be cultivated.
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  Partnerships for girls’ education

  Oxfam, 2005

  The idea of partnerships - involving multinational donors, governments, international non-government organisations, the private sector, civil society, and local communities - is increasingly current in debates about development. They are widely seen as the most effective way to achieve sustainable economic and social benefits for the poorest people.
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  Globalising Women's Rights: Confronting Unequal Development Between the UN Rights Framework and the WTO Trade Agreements

  BRIDGE, 2004

  In its work on the intersection between development and trade policies, Network Women in Development Europe (WIDE) recognised a growing lack of coherence between on the one hand, the human rights framework adopted by the United Nations (UN) and elaborated in various international conventions and on the other hand the commercial and corporate rights protected in free trade agreements.
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  Regulation of Disabled Women's Sexuality

  2004

  Sexuality is treated as either irrelevant or problematic in relation to disability. Issues such as sexual information, sexual relationships, sexual activity and sexual abuse are often excluded from disability theories, rights movements and development policies. Perhaps as a result, society also tends to expect disabled people, particularly women, to act as asexual beings.

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