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  Traffic in Women in War and Peace: Mapping Experiences in Southeast Europe

  Taylor and Francis Group, 2004

  How concerns around prostitution and migration are politically framed can decide and formulate policy strategies, with neighbouring countries taking radically different approaches to legislation. Traffic in women entails situations of violence and social control, where the lines between migration, human trafficking and smuggling become blurred.
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  Gender and Natural Disasters: Why We Should be Focusing on a Gender Perspective of the Tsunami Disaster

  2005

  Jones argues that, in the aftermath of such catastrophes as the tsunami, disaster management plans and humanitarian assistance must be linked with gender dynamics in order to "precipitate a greater understanding of what is needed to ensure that women's unique circumstances during natural disasters are not only recognized, but acted upon." That is, while the physical aspects of natural disasters ar
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  Violence Against Women in Sri Lanka: Report prepared for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

  World Organisation Against Torture, 2002

  The OMCT shadow report shows Sri Lanka is far ahead of other countries in the region. Women are well educated and may be found in greater numbers in professional or managerial positions.
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  Shadow Report to CEDAW

  2001

  Sri Lanka ratified CEDAW in 1981 without any reservations. In 2001, NGOs participated in producing this shadow report. Traditionally Sri Lanka has fared well in terms of basic social indicators like life expectancy, literacy, school enrolment, infant mortality, child mortality, maternal mortality and composite qualitative indices such as Human Development Index and Gender Development Index.
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  Third and Fourth Reports of States Parties: Sri Lanka

  1999

  This Sri Lanka CEDAW report describes significant advances in the status of women in the country despite the existence of strong cultural values and prejudices which continue to impede gender equality measures. There have been major achievements in women's education, an increase in female employment and a reduction in population growth rate in recent years.
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  A Russian Perspective

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2001

  Gender equality is an important element in the successful transition to a market economy and democratic development. Unfortunately, in the economic and political transition in Russia women have paid a higher price than men.
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  Gender in Transition

  World Bank, 2002

  The extensive socio-economic transformation undertaken by the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia over the last decade has substantially affected the structure of these countries' economies and the living standards of their people. A relatively under-explored issue is the extent to which this process has differently affected men and women in each country.
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  Shadow Report: Implementation by the Russian Federation of UN Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

  Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations, 2001

  This shadow report from the Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations based in Moscow is critical of the Russian Federation's implementation of CEDAW in practice. Despite ratifying the CEDAW and having in place constitutional protection for gender equality, and the existence of a National Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women, practice still lags far behind.
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  Roads towards gender equity in Latin America and the Caribbean

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004

  This document, first presented at a regional conference in 2004, will serve as the region's contribution to the forty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women in March 2005. This study assesses the fulfilment of the commitments enshrined in regional and international commitments, including the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995).
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  Gender, minorities, and indigenous peoples

  Minority Rights Group International, 2004

  The aim of this report is to encourage those working on minority and indigenous peoples’ rights to consider the issues from a gender perspective, and to encourage those working on gender equality and women’s rights to include minorities and indigenous peoples within their remit.

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