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gender, the global garment industry and the movement for women workers' rights
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ascoly, Nina > (ed.)
- Creator
- Finney, Chantal > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Vlasblom, Annelies
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Description
- When the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) came onto the scene in Europe in the early 1990s, one of the things motivating those mainly female activists was a desire to make people aware of the fact that almost universally it was women who were making our clothes under bad conditions, and that there were reasons for that it was no coincidence that women were stitching our garments or gluing our sneakers together, whether it was in the Philippines, Indonesia, India or China. Clean Clothes Campaigners wanted the public to know that exploited labour in these industries often had a female face, and if something was going to be done about their situation that fact couldn’t be ignored.
twenty-five years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
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- Book/Boek
- Contributor
- Simonovic, Dubravka
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 74 2007
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- Vrouwenverdrag, discriminatie, gelijke behandeling, VN, wetgeving, overheidsbeleid, internationaal, mensenrechten, participatie, armoede, prostitutie, vrouwenhandel, arbeidsmarkt, migratie, gezondheid, plattelandsvrouwen, geweld, oorlog en vrede, empowerment, ngo's, bedrijven, historisch, wereld, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, bundel
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- The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is one of the most important human rights tools ever created. Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly, it is often described as an international bill of rights for women. These essays and personal reflections, from individuals who have served on the committee that monitors CEDAW, introduce readers to the issues and the activism. .Only a handful of countries have refused to ratify CEDAW: the United States is the only industrialized country among them. This book reveals the profound impact the convention has had on women's lives around the world and its potential to affect American women. With examples and moving reminiscences from Japan to Tunisia to the Caribbean and beyond, this collection addresses CEDAW's impact on women in Islam, labor markets, migration, violence against women, human trafficking, women in politics, and more.
challenges and opportunities
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- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
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- gelijke behandeling, verkiezingen, glazen plafond, overheidsbeleid, wetgeving, rechtspraak, gender mainstreaming, genderbudgeting, arbeidsmarkt, bedrijven, gezinnen, plattelandsvrouwen, migratie, vrouwenhandel, geweld, gezondheid, vrouwbeelden, media, vrouwenstudies, mannen, Ukraine, statistiek
- Description
- Report published four years after the publication of the first gender report UNDP in Ukraine. It looks at where Ukraine stands today on this issue, what they know now and where there are gaps in research and activity. This report consists of four chapters dedicated to different spheres of life experienced by Ukrainian women and men and society in general: Gender and governance : Gender challenges in the economy : Gender aspects of social problems : Society's gender mirrors.
the women of the textile mills and the families whose wealth they wove
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Moran, William
- Publish Year
- 2002
- Shelfmark
- B3856 - B
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- textielindustrie, fabrieksarbeidsters, bedrijven, hogere klasse, migratie, Iers, vakbonden, armoede, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The story of one group of pioneers in the American labor movement - the thousends of women who left New England farm towns to work in the textile cities that sprang up in the region in the early nineteenth century. Their goal was to achieve personal independence, their mission social justice. At a time when women had no political influence, they battled powerful mill owners for fair pay and decent working conditions. The book fills the American stage with historical figures - from the blue-blooded Cabots and Lowells of Boston to the Southern slaves who first supplied cotton to the mills.
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