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  Intersections of human rights and customs: a livelihood perspective on water laws

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2005

  Does a human rights approach to water actually support to the multiple ways in which men and women actually share and manage water in rural contexts?
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  Nepali women trafficked for sex work in India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005

  It is estimated that up to 7,000 Nepali women and girls are trafficked – transported through deception, exploitation or abduction – for sex work in India each year, and that 200,000 Nepalis are working in the sex industry in India.
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  Widows, AIDS, health and human rights in Africa: case study from Tanzania

  Social Science Research Network, 2004

  Widows, in Tanzania and many other parts of the world, face discrimination on a regular basis, which often condemns women to a life of poverty.
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  "So does it mean that we have the rights?": protecting the human rights of women and girls trafficked for forced prostitution in Kosovo

  Amnesty International, 2004

  Since the deployment in July 1999 of an international peacekeeping force (KFOR) and the establishment of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) civilian administration, Amnesty International argues that Kosovo has become a major destination country for women and girls trafficked into forced prostitution.This report examines the human rights abuses to which trafficke
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  International and local interventions to reduce gender-based violence against women in post-conflict situations

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper reflects on the international gendered frames of analysis concerning women's experiences of violence during war. The author examines case studies of trafficking in women for prostitution, and explores women's experiences in resisting violence as well.
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  Globalising women's rights: confronting unequal development between the UN rights framework and the WTO trade agreements

  Women in Development Europe, 2004

  This paper is a report of WIDE’s annual conference from 2004, held at the Gustav-Stresemann-Institute, in Bonn from 21-22 May. The report includes summaries of the main seminars held.
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  Afghanistan: "No one listens to us and no one treats us as human beings": justice denied to women

  2003

  This paper explores rhetorical committments to women's rights in Afghanistan, and examines how women's rights in Afghanistan became an issue of global concern with the US-led incursion into Afghanistan.
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  Domestic, regional, and international protection of Nigerian women against discrimination: constraints and possiblities

  African Studies Quarterly, 2002

  This paper approaches questions concerning human rights and discrimination against women from a perspective that tries to divorce itself from what the author views as implicit Western biases in prevailing scholarship.
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  Gender, the Millennium Development Goals, and human rights in the context of the 2005 review processes

  Choike, 2004

  This paper takes advantage of the 2005 reviews of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA) and the Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to think about the opportunities offered by these coinciding reviews.
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  Fear and want: obstacles to human security

  Social Watch, 2004

  Acknowledging that it is impossibe to answer many specific questions on current events, this report aims to make its own contribution to the debate by examining which grassroots organisations around the world are engaged in the frontline of the battle against poverty and discrimination.

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