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  Women's Informal Employment in Palestine: Securing a Livelihood Against All Odds

  2002

  The growth of informal employment opportunities, particularly for women, has not been much studied. The authors argue, however, that informal employment is an essential part of survival strategies for Palestinian households and represents a significant component of economic activity. The occupation of the area has limited the opportunities to build long-term economic infrastructure.
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  Gender and Ethical Trade: a Mapping of the Issues in African Horticulture

  Natural Resource and Ethical Trade, 2001

  Codes of conduct covering employment conditions of Southern producers exporting to European markets increased dramatically throughout the 1990s. As a result producers of horticulture products are faced with a considerable variety of codes, particularly in terms of what gender issues should be addressed.
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  Individual versus Community

  Publishers WWW sites, 1998

  Citizenship theory is based largely on the rights and responsibilities of the individual. Where does the community fit in to such theories, and how does the emphasis on the individual limit the application of citizenship theories to a western perspective? In this chapter Chilla Bulbeck challenges three key areas of citizenship theory and practice.
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  How Women Are Using the United Nations World Conference Against Racism: Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance (WCAR) to Advance Women's Human Rights, Tools for Women's Advocacy #2

  2003

  The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR) was held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 8 September 2001. Government representatives, NGOs and activists who had themselves been direct victims of racism took part.
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  Decentralisation: Toward Gender Orientation

  2001

  How can a gender perspective and women's interests be included in decentralisation processes through technical advisory services? This publication from GTZ outlines the various entry points through which donors can assist in ensuring that women and men participate equally in the process and its outcomes. The publication is divided into national and local level actions.
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  Gender and Local Government

  2002

  Local government is the area of state policy closest to people and is therefore an important focus for work on citizenship. Although it is responsible for many goods and services that are on the surface available to all, many factors, including race and gender, influence whether people receive them.
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  Gender and Local Governance

  2001

  This is a handbook outlining strategies in local governance to ensure that women's needs and interests are incorporated into development planning at the local level. Going beyond service delivery, it includes issues of power, decision-making, participation and accountability as part of the picture of how citizens can access their entitlements to development.
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  Local Action/Global Change: Learning about the Human Rights of Women and Girls

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1999

  This book aims to develop human rights awareness and provide information on issue-oriented actions. It includes substantive information about the human rights of women in such areas as violence, health, reproduction and sexuality, education, the global economy, the workplace, and family life.
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  Does Sex Make a Difference: An Equalities Pack for Young People on International Women's Day

  2003

  ?Get a Life!? is one message of this pack which looks at why women are underrepresented in politics in the UK. Young people, particularly girls, are encouraged to get involved in politics and representative bodies in school, community and government. Positive stories are presented of women's and young people's participation in politics.
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  Women Hold Up Half the Sky

  2003

  This series of eight training videos which accompanies the above workbook is for learning about the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its relevance to women's daily lives. These short narrative dramas showing the effects of patriarchy on women and girls are based on real life stories.

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