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Book

Women and Rights

01/01/1995

1 documents

65 pages long

Languages: English

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The UN Human Rights Conference in 1993 proclaimed that ‘Women’s rights are human rights’. This book in the Focus on Gender series explores issues of women’s rights including: the legal background and history of human rights legislation

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Book

Words Into Action: Basic rights and the campaign against world poverty

01/01/1995

5 documents

113 pages long

Languages: English

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Words into Action looks at some of the main obstacles which prevent poor people from claiming their rights. It tells of the hard-won successes of people who are working at all levels, from village council to national government, for a better life for themselves, their families, and their communities.

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Book

Power and Process

01/01/1995

4 documents

232 pages long

Languages: English

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In 1992 Oxfam launched the Women’s Linking Project, an innovative three-year project designed to bring women together worldwide to share their experiences of working for change. The culmination of the project was an international conference for staff from Oxfam and other development agencies, and representatives of partner organisations and Southern women’s organisations. This book reflects […]

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Journal article

Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

01/10/1994

4 pages long

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Declaration from southern women’s organisations presented at Women Linking for Change Conference Bangkok, Thailand, 25 February 1994

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We women of the South, chosen by regional meetings of the Women to Women Linking Project in Africa, Latin America, South-East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to participate in the Global Meeting of Women Linking for Change, held in Bangkok from 20-23 February 1994 are concerned that there is an increasing concentration of […]

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Journal article

Women’s health and feminist politics

01/06/1994

4 pages long

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SOF is an NGO working to raise living standards and gain health and reproductive rights for poor women in south-eastern Brazil. Faure charts SOF’s progress from a family planning to a feminist organisation. It works alongside women’s and health movements and has achieved considerable success, instigating change in health infrastructures and policies, and integrating women […]

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Journal article

Rape in South Africa: an invisible part of apartheid’s legacy

01/06/1994

5 pages long

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Rape in South Africa: an invisible part of apartheid’s legacy

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In apartheid South Africa, rape became not only acceptable but also legitimised. The law recognises rape only in limited instances and fails to take effective preventative or punitive action. So expected is the violence that schoolgirls sometimes assist rapists. Armstrong links rape to poverty, race and class, with poor black women being targeted most often. […]

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Journal article

Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality

01/06/1994

6 pages long

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Abortion, reproductive rights and maternal mortality

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The authors make their case for safe, legal, accessible, affordable abortion, as one part of reproductive health services that make all the choices, and information, available to women. Abortion is, they argue, about women’s rights and empowerment, and would reduce incidences of poor health and maternal mortality. Among the arguments are poor availability and reliability […]

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Journal article

Land reform in South Africa: Lessons from Latin America

01/05/1994

7 pages long

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Land distribution in South Africa has always favoured white farmers. This article examines lessons from the history of land reform policies in Brazil, Bolivia and Chile, looking at problems of rural poverty, landlessness and dispossession. Political developments in South Africa may limit the scope for land reform. In October 1993, the World Bank presented its […]

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Journal article

Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

01/02/1994

4 pages long

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Saharawi women: ‘between ambition and suffering’

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A conference by ‘One World Action’ that focused on Saharawi women refugees, has highlighted how women worldwide cope with displacement. The true picture is starkly different to that portrayed by Western media and understood by Western aid agencies. Women refugees are not ‘victims’ but empower themselves by running the camps and assuming traditional male roles […]

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Discussion paper

Hunters and Gatherers in Central Africa: On the margins of development

01/01/1994

1 documents

54 pages long

Languages: English

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Forest and savannah dwellers in Africa who rely on hunting and gathering for their livelihoods face an uncertain future. Their way of life is under pressure from governments, who are making concerted attempts to settle them and integrate them into alien forms of subsistence such as farming or pastoralism. Their territories are under threat from […]

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