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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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  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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  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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  Initial Reports of State Parties - Bolivia

  1991

  This is the Bolivian government's first and only report to the United Nations (UN) Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It outlines Bolivia's laws which protect women's rights, arranged sequentially in response to each article of the CEDAW.
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  Early marriage: child spouses

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001

  Early marriage is a violation of children's rights as it has profound psychological, physical, intellectual and emotional impacts, cutting off their chances of personal growth. This Digest looks at reasons for the perpetuation of early marriage, and its possible increase in populations under stress, highlighting poverty as a key factor.
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  Research Report on Women Street Vendors in Lahore

  Commitee for Asian Women, 2003

  There are two main barriers to improving the conditions of women street vendors - a lack of understanding of their current status and a lack of political commitment to improve conditions.
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  Power and Privileges - on Gender Discrimination and Poverty and Power and Privileges

  Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2004

  How can mainstream approaches to poverty analysis become more gender-sensitive? These two texts highlight the ways in which mainstream approaches to poverty analysis overlook the differences in how women and men experience poverty.
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  CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Nicaragua

  Government of Nicaragua, 1999

  This report is Nicaragua's fifth and most recent report to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It outlines the status of women in Nicaragua and initiatives to address the goals set out by CEDAW, particularly with respect to women's equality within the family.
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  Development of a Rights Based Monitoring Tool for CARE Malawi

  2004

  Understanding discrimination is the key to understanding and combating the barriers faced by the poor and marginalised to realising their rights and achieving sustainable livelihoods. Discrimination is defined as treating someone differently especially because of one's own feelings or prejudices about, for example, a person's sex, race, and religion.

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