Citizenship and migration
Latest Documents
- Report of the WIDE annual conference 2010 - migration in the context of globalisation: women’s human rights at risk?
- Women in Development Europe, 2011
- Migration and globalisation are key issues for the women’s movement as they are having serious impacts on women’s lives and rights. Women from all corners of the globe including many representatives from European migrant women a...
- Impacts of international migration and remittances on child outcomes and labour supply in Indonesia: How does gender matter?
- T Nguyen; R Purnamasari / World Bank, 2011
- This policy research working paper empirically investigates rising international migration and remittances in Indonesia. It particularly examines the ways in which female migration (approximately 80% of Indonesia’s migrant workers in ...
- Women’s labour migration in the context of globalisation
- A Franck; A Spehar / Women in Development Europe, 2010
- What are the current trends in women’s migration and why are they occurring? According to this study, globalisation has led to increased international migration. However, migrants often cannot enjoy the full protection of the rights t...
- The Global Gender Gap Report 2010
- R Hausmann; L Tyson; S Zahidi / World Economic Forum, 2010
- The Global Gender Gap Index was introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, as a framework for capturing and measuring gender based disparities and tracking their progress. It seeks to highlight those countries that are role models in d...
- Women’s Leadership and Participation: Case Studies on Learning for Action
- J Hoare (ed); F Gell (ed) / Oxfam, 2009
- What are the barriers to women’s leadership and participation and how could they be encouraged to take up leadership positions? Once they are leading, what support do women need to carry out their roles effectively and for progressive...
- Understanding feminist movements
- S. Batliwala / Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2008
- How can an understanding of feminist movements in the current global context be achieved? This document presents 10 case studies from different regions of the world that have mobilized women to make a difference. Examples come fro...
- Refugee girls in states affected by armed conflict
- Women's Refugee Commission, 2009
- More than 140 million girls live in fragile states affected by armed conflict. As they flee from war, girls face many dangers, including rape, landmines, gunfire and hunger. They may be recruited into armed forces or captured by traffickers...
- The difference between legal rights and reality for Arab women
- B.A. Barakat; A. Funk; S. Kröhn / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2007
- The legal reality for women in the Arab world is such that legal rights enshrined in international conventions and in national constitutions and laws are often of little relevance to the lives of many women, especially the poor. The first p...
- Stories and learning from alliance-based efforts to improve employment standards for women workers
- D. Dalton / Oxfam, 2007
- Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multiple chal...
- Papers series examining women's political participation
- F. Gell; J. Hoare / Oxfam, 2008
- Women are often denied a voice within the states, markets, communities, and households in which they live, dominated as they are by men and male interests. This lack of voice functions as a critical factor in the maintenance of gender inequ...
