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    Gender equality and labour movements: toward a global perspective

    Solidarity Center, 2012
    This report offers a critical review of the English-language research on gender equality and
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    International Labour Organisation Subregional Office for Central America, Haiti, Panama and Dominican Republic

    International Labour Organization, 2007
    The website of the subregional office of the International Labour Office (ILO) for Central America, Haiti, Panama and Domenican Republic has a special section on gender issues. It covers recent news and articles from the region, gender specific publications on labour rights, employment, statistics, training tools, migration and labour norms and rights.
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    Women Today Website

    Mujeres Hoy, 2007
    Mujeres Hoy is a website which provides gender related information and links to initiatives in Spain and Latin America. A section of their portal is dedicated to labour rights and offers abstracts on a wide range of articles, case studies and papers with links to the original documents.
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    The Working and Unemployed Women's Movement 'Maria Elena Cuadra' (MEC)

    Maria Elena Cuadra, 2007
    This movement supports women to participate fully and equally in Nicaraguan society by offering a space for reflection, capacity building and organisation. They focus on issues related to women's economic empowerment and labour rights but also work on other related issues like gender-based violence, poverty eradication and the environment.
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    Social Corporate Responsibility and the Role of the Women's Movement

    Women's Human Right's Net, 2004
    International corporations continue to move production zones to developing countries to benefit from cheap labour and poor standards. Conditions often include low wages, long hours, unsanitary and dangerous working conditions, sexual harassment, verbal and physical abuse, and the prohibition of unionising.
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    STITCH (website)

    STITCH, 1990
    STITCH is a network of women unionists, organisers, and activists who are working to build connections between Central American and US women organising for economic justice. In Central America, STITCH provides support to women workers before, during, and after union organising campaigns by carrying out training exchanges and leadership development workshops.
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    Women Working Worldwide Website

    1990
    Women Working Worldwide (WWW) is a UK based organisation which works with an international network of women workers' organisations to support the rights of women working in international production chains. The WWW website provides information about project activities, campaigns, publications (which can be ordered by post) and forthcoming events, as well as links to related sites.
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    Action research: garment industry supply chains

    Women Working Worldwide, 2003
    This manual, aimed at researchers, gives practical guidance on how to conduct action research that will promote and support workers' rights, focusing on garment industry supply chains.
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    Promoting Gender Equality. A Resource Kit for Trade Unions

    International Labour Organization, 2002
    This toolkit has been designed to address the challenges faced by trade unions in recruiting and retaining female members and ensuring that trade union policies reflect gender equality goals . Trade unions have a role in protecting workers from all types of discrimination, including that based on gender.
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    Women, the State and Labour Rights Activism: The Role of Women's Organisations in Improving Labour Standards in Nicaragua

    Central American Women’s Network, 2005
    Maria Elena Cuadra (MEC) is an NGO set up in 1994 by leaders of the Women's Secretariat of the Sandinista Workers' Central (CST) trade union in Nicaragua. MEC was established in the light of the failure of the union to take women's concerns into account. As MEC is an NGO not a union, they were initially excluded from formal labour negotiations.

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