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  Case study on right to food: Brazil

  FAO Right to Food, 2003

  This document details the statement by Ambassador Flavio Perri, Brazilian Permanent Representative to FAO, issued in May 2003.
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  Empowering women and girls: challenges and strategies in gender equality

  World Vision International Resources on Child Rights, 2005

  This paper presents a collection of eight articles and case studies discussing the challenges, achievements and gaps in the empowerment of women and girls.
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  Challenges and opportunities for gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

  World Bank, 2003

  This study highlights that while women in the Latin America and the Caribbean have made significant advances with regard to equality, traditional social patterns continue to undermine their participation in the labour market, and hinder the ability of households to escape from poverty.
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  Tracking progress: implementing sustainable consumption policies

  UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, 2004

  This report presents the findings of an UNEP and Consumers International (CI) global governmental survey of the status of implementation of the sustainable consumption section of the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection.
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  Inter-linkages approach for wetland management: the case of the Pantanal wetland

  United Nations University, 2004

  This report discusses the so called inter-linkages approach for wetland management, as to enable the creation of a regional framework for the management of the Pantanal wetland in south America.
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  Education decentralization and accountability relationships in Latin America

  World Bank, 2004

  This paper analyses decentralisation reforms in the education sector in Latin America, in particular their status, impact, and ongoing challenges.
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  Equity, quality and relevance in higher education in Brazil

  Anais da Academia Brasiliera de Ciências [Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Science], 2004

  Brazilian higher education has doubled its size in the 1990s, going from 1.5 million to more than 3 million students in the period.
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  Opening minds, opening up opportunities: children’s participation in action for working children

  Save the Children Fund, 2004

  This report is the outcome of research on participation and working children in Bangladesh, Brazil, Guatemala and Honduras, India and Senegal.Working children’s participation involves a wide range of activities, such as: consultation with working children through participatory research on their working lives and asking them about the types of service interventions they feel they would gain from
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  Internationally recognised core labour standards in Brazil

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2004

  This report assesses the respect and the observance of internationally recognised core labour standards in Brazil. Altogether Brazil has ratified seven of the eight core ILO labour Conventions:Brazil has ratified the ILO Convention on collective bargaining, but has not ratified the Convention on freedom of association.
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  Access to condoms and HIV/AIDS information: a global health and human rights concern

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This Human Rights Watch briefing paper documents censorship of information, myths and restrictions on condoms in a number of countries. While condoms remain the single most effective device against sexually-transmitted HIV, they face government-imposed constraints in numerous countries worldwide. This brief outlines the United States’ (US) "War on Condoms", and religious opposition.

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