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    Women’s economic & social rights in MENA
    (ILO Regional Office for Arab States, Beirut, LB, 2007) Esim, Simel
    The presentation focuses on a rights-based approach to research in Arab countries, which would support movements towards inclusion of women in policy advocacy as well as in disaggregated statistical information. A rights-based approach to research could make strategic and context relevant/specific use of international human rights instruments (for instance, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)) and labour standards.
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    Gender and citizenship : the Palestinian case-study
    (Gender Studies Project, Mada al-Carmel, Haifa, PS, 2007) Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera
    When Israel controls bureaucracies, practices and even discourses, are we able to talk about citizenship? When the “donor community” is actively engaged in shaping political and economic developments as well as asserting political preferences through the mechanism of aid, how are concerns voiced freely? The construction of new terrains, new spaces and “states of exceptions” with stateless citizens, or citizens without citizenship who interact daily with, and make claims upon, and even clash with their own leadership- requires a serious examination of “citizenship”. How do we talk about citizenship as Palestinian women in Israel? This report takes the form of PowerPoint slides.
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    Women’s economic rights : comments on an agenda for action
    (American University of Cairo, Cairo, EG, 2007) Sholkamy, H.
    This brief presentation analyzes a rights-based approach to governance and women’s citizenship in Arab countries and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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    Governance and women’s citizenship in MENA
    (Purdue University, West Lafayette, US, 2008) Moghadam, Valentine M.
    The presentation focuses on governance and the linkages between feminist researchers, women’s organizations, women’s citizenship rights, and policy-makers within the MENA region, as well as between MENA countries and other parts of the world. Points of reference are organized into legal and civil rights; political rights; and social rights. The presentation provides a point form overview of issues related to women’s participation in politics and society.
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    Women's access to justice
    (Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, CA, 2008) Bahdi, Reem
    The presentation addresses women’s access to justice and to what extent law promotes empowerment. It provides the beginnings of a legal framework from which to position further advocacy. Access to justice is not simply an internal matter: security discourses and anti-terrorism laws are based on human rights; globalization and “free markets” include worker rights and the right to work in an occupation of one’s choice. This brief presentation ends with the question: How do we take intersectionality into account in developing and assessing access to justice strategies?
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    Droits des femmes et migration en Afrique de l'Ouest : rapport de consultation
    (Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis, Saint-Louis, SN, 2007) Tandian, Aly