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050			_aPamphlet HQ1236.5.A3.W754 2013
100	1		_aWright, Rebecca.
245	1	0	_aAfghanistan’s female home-based workers : _bisolated and undervalued / _cRebecca Wright.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bHuman Rights Research and Advocacy Consortium (HRRAC), _c2010.
300			_avi, 32 p. : _bcol. ill. ; _c27 cm.
500			_a“April 2010”. “Human Rights Research and Advocacy Consortium (HRRAC)”—at head of title. “We have very low access to jobs and very low incomes but it helps us meet our needs a little better and working is better than being jobless and being totally dependent on men. We are trying our hardest to be self-sufficient. We don’t want our hands to be extended all the time to male members of the family and to ask for every penny from men.” Women home-based workers, Heart”—title page.
504			_6“Includes bibliography”—(p. 31-32).
505			_aContents: Executive summary—Glossary and acronyms—Introduction—Section I : The Afghan government’s commitments to protect women workers—Section II : legal protection for home-based workers in Afghanistan—Section III : the insecurity of finding and retaining employment—Section IV : the insecurity of income levels and lack of social protection—Section V : the insecurity of enjoying healthy and safe working conditions—Section VI : the insecurity of gaining and retaining work skills—Section VII : the insecurity of representation in workers’ organizations and government—Section VIII : recommendation—Annex—Methodology and respondent profiles—Bibliography.
520			_aSummary: “In Afghanistan’s National Action Plan for the Women of Afghanistan (NAPWA), the Afghan government specifically addressed the “weak position of women in the informal economy.” It recognized that women’s work is largely invisible and stated that the…”—(p. 1).
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650		0	_aWomen _z Afghanistan.
650		0	_aWomen's rights _z Afghanistan.
650		0	_aWomen's rights _z Afghanistan _x History.
650		0	_aWomen _x Violence against _z Afghanistan.
651		0	_aAfghanistan _x Politics and government _y 2001-.
710	1	0	_aHuman Rights Research and Advocacy Consortium (HRRAC).
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