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  Empowering women migrant workers

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  Using a gender- and rights-based approach, UNIFEM seeks to empower migrant workers within and from Asia. It works on creating enabling policies, institutional and socioeconomic environments that ensure women equality of opportunity, and access to resources and benefits, throughout the migration process.
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  Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2003

  Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.
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  Women, nationality and citizenship

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  In the majority of cases, nationality is crucial to the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This has significant implications for those who do not have nationality such as stateless persons and refugees. However, looking at nationality also reveals numerous gender discriminations.
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  Gender and Migration: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This collection is made up of summaries of overviews, case studies, tools and guidelines and other materials relating to gender and migration. Details of how to obtain copies or download the full texts are provided with each summary.
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  The Millennium Development Goals and Migration

  International Organization for Migration, 2005

  What are the linkages between migration and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? There is no clear cause-and-effect relationship between migration and the achievement of the MDGs. Migration can have a positive or negative impact on development. However, if properly engaged, migrants can support the achievement of MDG targets.
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  GENDER: Persecution in the Spotlight

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2001

  When the fathers of the 1951 Convention - all men - drew up what would become the key instrument of international refugee law, they defined the right to refuge as being based on a well-founded fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, and political opinion.
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  Interim Report on Women and Migration

  Committee on Feminism and International Law, 2004

  This report examines from a human rights and gender angle, the 'Palermo Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children'. This protocol, signed by 117 states and ratified by 62 states, came into force in 2003.
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  What is the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families?

  2003

  The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICRM) was approved in 1990 and came into force as an instrument of international law on July 1, 2003, with the required ratification by 20 party states.
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  Intersecting Protections, Migrating Women: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

  Center for Human Rights and Global Justice [New York University Law School], 2004

  With the growing feminisation of migration comes an increasing focus on the abuses women migrants face in sending and receiving countries. Much of the effort to combat these violations centres on urging states to ratify the Migrant Workers Convention (MWC), which came into force in 2003.
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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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