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		<title>People left without water around Coca-Cola Plant in India</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/894</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: India Resource Center

Kala Dera, India:  The Coca-Cola company has continued to operate its bottling plant in Kala Dera in Jaipur, India even as the area has been declared a drought area last summer and the groundwater levels are falling sharply – leaving the largely agrarian community with severely restricted access to water.
Data obtained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beijing +15: Join Karama at the United Nations</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/889</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karama’s delegation of 32 women from around the Arab world is headed to the UN in New York to participate in the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women.   During the session, Karama’s team will join women’s activists from around the world to present a detailed review of progress towards fulfilling the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex, culture and human rights: an African leader breaks the silence</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/882</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is drawn from a speech given by Josina Machel at the 4th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights earlier this month in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  Machel is a gender activist and a social entrepreneur and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Women&#8217;s Health Coalition.

I was flabbergasted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Howard Zinn</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/863</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and the author of the seminal A People&#8217;s History of the United States, died on January 28 at the age of 87 of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California. He was in a swimming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving Palestine&#8217;s Roots of Resistance</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/anlysis/829</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has reveled in Middle Eastern or Mediterranean cuisine knows the important role olives play in giving their taste buds cause to cheer. Whether eaten whole or through their oil, olives complete nearly any meal. Yet, here in Palestine in particular, zaytoun (olives) provide flavor to our lives beyond simply satisfying our palates. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Movements 2.0</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/anlysis/825</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tension around the pros and cons of online organizing has spurred a healthy debate in the social movement community.
By Brendan Smith, Tim Costello &#38; Jeremy Brecher
Source: The Nation

January 15, 2009
On September 27, 2007, the world experienced its first virtual strike. In response to a wage dispute, IBM workers in Italy organized a picket outside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender and secularism of modernity: How can a Muslim woman be French?</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/anlysis/821</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Afsaneh Najmabadi  -  The meaning of a Muslim woman&#8217;s veil is both multiple and historically contingent, its meaning has been subject to callenges and negotiations to which Muslim women themselves have been, and have become even more so today, a major party. As much as for some Muslim women the veil has become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30th anniversary of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/819</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CEDAW is made up of 16 substantial and 14 procedural articles. It is a surprisingly significant convention because it deliberately goes beyond conventional equality approaches and puts forward “positive measures” to promote women, and contains active political and legal steps towards gender equality.  See WIDE information and analysis (pdf format).  See also WIDE - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender, IFIs and debt</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/813</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source : Gender Action - Gender Action  announces the publication of its fourth “Gender Action Link”, Gender, the IFIs and Debt, which highlights how International Financial Institution debt exacerbates the feminization of poverty and undermines gender equality. The Link specifically examines typical gender impacts of IFI loan conditions on female workers such as an increase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does sex work have to do with climate change? Anti-prostitution campaign at Climate Conference, Copenhagen</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/807</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sex workers in Denmark are protesting a campaign against prostitution during the UN Climate Change Conference. The city of Copenhagen wants to discourage delegates from buying sex, despite the fact that it is perfectly legal there and has nothing to do with climate change. The sex workers’ interest group, SIO (Sexarbejdernes Interesseorganisation), was not consulted and so, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocacy in the Arab region - 30 years of the CEDAW Treaty to end discrimination against women</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/800</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The League of Arab States,  Karama,  and UNIFEM to Commemorate 30 Years of the CEDAW Treaty to End Discrimination Against Women

CAIRO, EGYPT, December 9, 2009 –  On December 15-16, 2009, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Karama, together in partnership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ICT4D for women: Opportunities and risks</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/anlysis/796</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are women passively waiting for policymakers to decide their fate with respect to access to ICTs? “No” says Helen Hambly Odame, Associate Professor at the School of Environmental Design &#38; Rural Development at the University of Guelph in Canada. She writes, “Women are not ‘waiting’ for access to ICTs, but rather using ICTs when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change: The story of cap and trade</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/791</link>
		<comments>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/791#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Story of Cap &#38; Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution - emissions trading - on the negotiating table at Copenhagen and in other capitals. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the &#8220;devils in the details&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draft resolution on the organization of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/789</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Member States have reached a preliminary agreement on the modalities for the MDG Review Conference in September 2010.  The resolution decides that the meeting will be held from 20 to 22 September 2010 in New York.  It also asks that Hearings with civil society be organized no later than June 2010.  Formal approval of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CSO Statement to be read at the Plenary of the South-South Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/780</link>
		<comments>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/780#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Your Excellency, Mr President of the South South Co-operation Conference, heads of delegations and representatives of member states,  colleagues and representatives of the business sector and of parliaments, dear Civil society colleagues, ladies and gentlemen:
We, the members of more than  civil society organizations and networks from the Southern countries, would like to issue a statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Belem to the world</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/777</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Civil Society Forum (FISC, for its Portuguese acronym) is an international event on Youth and Adult Education, to be held in Belém, capital of the state of Pará, Brazil, between November 28th and 30th, 2009. This is a plural space for reflection and formulation of proposals that seeks to promote the exchange of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade Unions, the World Social Forum, Turbulent Priests, and the Global Justice Movement</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/peter-waterman/756</link>
		<comments>http://blog.choike.org/eng/peter-waterman/756#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
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By Peter Waterman - Global Labor Charter Project
November 2009
INTRODUCTION
At the age of 73 it is something of an adventure for me to be hosted – for the first time in my life - by a Catholic labor studies center. I come from another labor tradition:
Communism…was one and indivisible, an international fellowship of faith… Internationalism was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new gender entity in the United Nations: the sum is larger than the parts</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/752</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 31, 2009 - At the NGO CSW Roundtable meeting on the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) review of the 15th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action women gathered to develop recommendations that reflected the needs and experiences of women in the region. The two day NGO meeting took place in Geneva from October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choike engages in knowledge intermediaries network</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/742</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The I-K-Mediary Network is an emerging global network of organisations that play a knowledge and information intermediary role in development. These organisations all aim to increase access to and use of research in development contexts by providing portals, gateways or reporting services.
Choike has recentrly engaged in the newtwork and has participated in the 3rd I-K-Mediary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DAWN&#8217;s Supplement on ICPD+15</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/724</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAWN&#8217;s Supplement on ICPD+15: ICPD+15 at the Crossroads: Health, Rights and Citizenship; Advocating for Full Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Still and Uphill Battle; Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and Global Finance - Crisis or Opportunity?; ICPD Agenda Remains Fragmented.  See pdf: DAWN&#8217;s Supplement on ICPD+15
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		<title>Civil Society and Peacebuilding</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/720</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can civil society most effectively work for peacebuilding? This paper presents the findings of a comparative research project which analysed the performance of civil society in regards to protection, monitoring, advocacy, socialisation, social cohesion, facilitation, and service delivery in situations of war and armed conflict. It concludes civil society can play an important supportive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduras: women targeted for resisting coup</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/712</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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The Honduran crisis as reported by Honduran Feminists in Resistance
On June 28, the democratically elected President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was forcibly removed from power and exiled to Costa Rica by the Honduran military in a coup d’état. On September 21, Zelaya returned to Honduras with the support of the government of Brazil and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>G20 Pittsburgh: rally on &#8220;The Hill&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/701</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John W. Foster, researcher at the North-South Institute
Crowded into Monumental Baptist Church, several hundred youth, community folk and activists spent three hours with Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz, Steelworkers leader Leo Gerard, Washington-based Emira Woods, Enrique Daza of the Hemispheric Social Alliance, Carl Redwood Junior of the Hill District Consensus Group, Rev. John Welsh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza report: credibility can&#8217;t be challenged</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/695</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source:  SACSIS
Justice Richard Goldstone is accused of being unfair to Israel in his investigative report on the war in Gaza, which the Israeli government has stepped up efforts to discredit in the international media. But Phyllis Bennis, author of &#8220;Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,&#8221; contends that there is no way that the credibility of the Goldstone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Assembly adopts resolution on System-wide Coherence (SWC)</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/692</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution that takes the next step in the process of creating the new women&#8217;s rights entity at the U.N.  In the text below are the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) talking points on the passage of the resolution.
We must now push on our many remaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beijing +15 overview and regional activities</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/682</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regional commissions as well as women’s organizations, coalitions, and networks are planning regional activities over the coming months to discuss achievements and setbacks regarding the twelve critical areas of concern as outlined in the Beijing Platform. In many of these meetings and conferences, an emphasis will also be placed on examining how the global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa: landmark water case reaches Constitutional Court</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/673</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
Mazibuko right to water case reaches Constitutional Court of South Africa
The Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), with the cooperation of the South Africa-based Legal Resource Centre, has intervened as amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) in a historic human rights battle in South Africa. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s groups join battle against bus segregation in Israel</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/666</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Ynet
Haredi (followers of conservative Orthodox Judaism) women have decided they&#8217;re sick of keeping kosher. Ten years after Egged and Dan bus companies came up with the &#8216;kosher&#8217; bus lines - which require female passengers to sit in a separate section at the back of the bus - a campaign is being launched to fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour and Social Movements under/against a Globalised and Informatised Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/peter-waterman/653</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Peter Waterman:
20 Papers on Workers, Women, Unions, International Solidarity, Communications and Culture.  See full text, pdf format.
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		<title>Africa Regional Task Force for the Beijing +15 process</title>
		<link>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/643</link>
		<comments>http://blog.choike.org/eng/news/643#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[=&#62; AFRICA REGIONAL TASK FORCE FOR THE BEIJING + 15 REVIEW PROCESS
=&#62; KENYAN NGOS DEVELOP AN ACTION STRATEGY TO REVIEW BEIJING PLATFORM FOR ACTION
=&#62; ORGANIZING FOR BEIJING + 15 IN WEST AFRICA=&#62; ORGANIZING FOR BEIJING + 15 IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE ISLANDS
=&#62; REGIONAL SCORECARD PROPOSED TO MONITOR GOVERNMENT PROGRESS IN AFRICA
=&#62; UGANDA BPFA REVIEW [...]]]></description>
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