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Le portail rinoceros d’informations sur les initiatives citoyennes pour la construction d’un autre monde a été intégré au nouveau site Ritimo pour une recherche simplifiée et élargie.

Ce site (http://www.rinoceros.org/) constitue une archive des articles publiés avant 2008 qui n'ont pas été transférés.

Le projet rinoceros n’a pas disparu, il continue de vivre pour valoriser les points de vue des acteurs associatifs dans le monde dans le site Ritimo.

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

Hidden apartheid : caste discrimination against India’s « Untouchables »

> Shadow Report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), February 2007, 118 p. (pdf)

Discriminatory and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of over 165 million people in India has been justified on the basis of caste. Caste is descent-based and hereditary in nature. It is a characteristic determined by one’s birth into a particular caste, irrespective of the faith practiced by the individual. Caste denotes a traditional system of rigid social stratification into ranked groups defined by descent and occupation. Caste divisions in India dominate in housing, marriage, (...) read

date of on-line publication : 15 March 2007

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Landless women, hopeless women ? Gender, land and decentralisation in Niger

> Women’s social exclusion from productive resources in Niger

This paper is a summary of a case study on gender, land and decentralisation. It addresses how women in rural areas of Niger deal with pressure on land within changing agricultural production systems. A separate focus is on women’s land rights, and the strategies they use to capitalise on these rights. The study is based on four main assumptions: increasing human pressure on land is changing dominant modes of access to land leading to the exclusion of women from agricultural production the (...) read

date of on-line publication : 11 January 2007

UNICEF

The State of the world’s children 2007 : women and children, the double dividend of gender equality

> The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2006, 160 p.

The State of the World’s Children 2007 examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives - and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls. It looks at the status of women today, discusses how gender equality will move all the Millennium Development Goals forward, and shows how investment in women’s rights will ultimately produce a double dividend : advancing the rights of both women and children. Read the full (...) read

date of on-line publication : 12 December 2006

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