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How Decent is Decent Work? Using SenseMaker to understand workers’ experiences

31/05/2018

1 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English

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Decent work for all is a shared global concern. It is enshrined in Sustainable Development Goal 8, ‘to achieve full and productive employment, and decent work, for all women and men by 2030’. Countless initiatives by companies, governments, CSOs and global aid agencies are dedicated to making this happen. These efforts are labelled as ‘decent […]

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Access to health care among poor elderly women in India: how far do policies respond to women’s realities?

01/11/2009

11 pages long

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Access to health care among poor elderly women in India: how far do policies respond to women’s realities?

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In developing countries like India, poor health and inability to access health care are an important part of the experience of ageing, particularly among people living in poverty: access to treatment is governed by public policy, as well as socio-economic characteristics of the elderly people. My research into morbidity among the elderly in an urban […]

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Research report

Women’s Participation and Leadership in Lebanon, Jordan and Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Moving from individual to collective change

25/04/2016

2 documents

74 pages long

Languages: English

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This report sets out the findings of a seven-month qualitative study commissioned by Oxfam and conducted in Lebanon, Jordan and Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) by researchers from the American University of Beirut. The aim of the study was to explore the role customary institutions play in maintaining gender inequality, and how changes in individual […]

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