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Book: Women's rights and development
Development continues the conversations of the 10th AWID Forum. This special issue of Development with over 40 contributions aims to capture some of excitement generated during the Conference and to indicate the current directions feminists around the world are taking now. Pdf format.
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Women's Learning Partnership at the AWID Forum
One of the important contributions made by the presence of the WLP Partnership at AWID was the participation of a number of leading women activists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, historically underrepresented at international women’s conferences. Executive Director of Sisterhood is Global Institute/Jordan Lina Quora said, “I really felt the importance of Middle Eastern women leaders participating in international events and raising their voices.”
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The non-economic dimensions of the economy
Provided that the states recovers its regulatory capacity to condition investment flows, to control large companies and more influential groups, it will also achieve balance in the distribution of resources and power among social sectors, thus strengthening and expanding the voice of the weakest groups. This is an unavoidable requirement to ensure human rights. Basis put forward by Soc. Norma Sanchís for discussion in workshop ”Latin America: An ongoing debate”
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