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    SexPolitics: reports from the front lines

    Sexuality Policy Watch, 2008
    How and why are gender and sexuality being used in political power struggles within and across countries and institutions? This question was at the heart of a project launched by Sexuality Policy Watch in 2004 - a transnational, cross-cultural research initiative seeking to capture the dynamics of contemporary sexual politics.
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    Thoughts on Dignity

    BRIDGE, 2007
    If we are to advance and make real the vision of a world in which human beings enjoy all their human rights in peace, we need to consider the utility of the concept of 'dignity'. This essay discusses the possibility that the concept of 'dignity' may help in advancing a holistic approach to theory and practice meant for inspiring peace and equity.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Gender and Trade Indicators

    2002
    This Women in Development Europe (WIDE) information sheet - aimed at governments, trade policy makers, the WTO and academic researchers - is designed to assist efforts to measure and monitor the relationship between trade and gender. This tool consists of three sets of indicators, which can be applied to an analysis of any trading relationship between countries or trade blocks.
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    International Trade in Women's Agendas

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004
    What strategies could be used in gender and trade advocacy? Trade agreements are generally formulated and decided by governments without any input from civil society. Increasingly, though, civil society organisations have been involved in protests against international and regional free trade agreements that are not sustainable, and that are working against gender equality.
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    Women in the Market: A Manual for Popular Economic Literacy

    Network Women in Development Europe, 2000
    Designed for WIDE's popular economics training, this manual combines a popular education framework with economic literacy tools to develop a better understanding of the fundamental workings of a market economy. It provides information on the particulars of the current economy: globalisation, restructuring, fluctuations (unemployment, inflation) and the WTO.

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