Balancing the scales: addressing gender concerns in paralegal education programmes. - Kampala : Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, 2001. - 85p.
Trainers manual for adult educators working in te field of legal education and legal advisors working at the community level.

Balancing the scales: adressing gender concerns in national development programmes: participantants' manual - Kampala : Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, 1999. - 96p.
Manual for a workshop on gender and development. Purpose of the training programme is to enhance the gender-responsive planning of key institutions and the management skills of their employees.

Balancing the scales: gender sensitisation for magistrates and state attorneys: trainers' manual. - Kampala : Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, 2001. - 60p.
Manual to teach and promote the gender sensitisation of state attorneys and magistrates.

The black female body : a photographic history / Deborah Willis, Carla Williams. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002. - XII, 228p. : lit. : index : foto's
The authors show how photographs reflected Western culture's fascination with black women's bodies, reinforcing beliefs about racial differences and hierarchies and how the images created by twentieth-century photographers increasingly challenged these beliefs. The authors discuss about 200 images of black women made by celebrated photographers like Nadar, Eugène Atget, Gertrude Käsebier, Renée Cox and Lorna Simpson.

Breaking the silence & challenging the myths of violence against women & children in Ghana / Dorcas Coker Appiah [ed], Kathy Cusack [ed], Marilyn Aniwa, Audrey Gadzekpo, Mansah Prah. - Legon : Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre, 1999. - XI, 224p.
Report of a national study after violence to women and children, known as the NKYINKYIM Project, an initiative of Gender Studies and the Human Rights Documentation Centre. The report aims to place violence against women and children on the public and political agenda, to challenge social tolerance and complicity and the state's silence.

The challenge of gender mainstreaming in Uganda today: a case of selected development organisations / Kanabahita Catharina Guma. - Kampala : Makarere University, Women Studies Department, 2001. - 37p.
Critical examination of the gender mainstreaming process in development organisations. It was guided by two objectives: to find out how gender concerns have been incorporated in development organisations and to identify the achievements and problems facing the gender mainstreaming processso as to devise strategies for its effectiveness.

Mother, sister, daughter / G. Mainali et. al.. - Kathmandu : Sancharika Samuha, 2002. - XX, 268p.
This book presents a collection of Nepali print media's recent reportage of women-feature articles, news and opinion. Despite existing legislation against gender discrimination, these stories highlight that its enforcement has not been effective enough to protect women from the adversity that so many women face within the framework of family and society.

Some writings on South Asia / Devaki Jain. - Bangalore, 2002. - 81p. Papers on different aspects on economic and political development in South Asia.
The author pays attention to the women's movement, women's rights in the context of globalisation, women and economic development and poverty. The struggle to be human: women's human right's / Saroj Iyer. - Bangalore : Books for Change, 1999. - 107p.
The author explores violence within marriage and in the household. She examines how the rethoric of rights in the Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have remained only on paper. Case studies expose the failure of the government and society to ensure equality and gender justice .

Under one roof. Gender, media and democracy: gender training manual for media activists / Steven C. Nakana ed., Lene Overland ed.. - z.p. : Women's Media Watch, 2000. - 60p. : ill.
Training manual for women who need to be trained to challenge and change the media. The authors emphasize especially the role of the newspaper and the radio, the most important media in South Africa. Subjects are media awareness, writing for media, exploring power relations and interview skills.

Whose News? Whose Views? : Southern Africa Gender in Media Handbook / Colleen Lowe-Morna (ed.), Thenjiwe Mtintso (forew.). - [S.l.] : Gender Links, 2001. - 144p. : ill.
The handbook is divided in three parts: the context part covers were the authors stand with regard to gender equality, where the media stands and why gender-aware reporting makes good editorial and business sense. Part two is a gender checklist for the media. Part three is a gender checklist for related interest groups.
Also: Who's News? Women and the Media, a 25 minute video. To order, contact lene@womensmediawatch.org.za.

Brazil: Women and Legislation Against Racism. A CEPIA production (Citizenship, Study, Information, Action). To order: cepia@ax.apc.org.

Medical Intervention Study of War Affected Gulu District, Uganda. An Isis-WICCE Researc Report. Available through Isis-WICCE, Isis-Women's International Cross Cultural Exchange, Plot 32 Bukoto Street, Kamwokya. P.O. Box 4934, Kampala, Uganda. Tel: 256-41-543953. Fax: 256-41-543954. E-mail: isis@starcom.co.ug. An extraordinary result of Isis-WICCE's endeavours to document violence against women in situations of war.

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