Women encounter more obstacles than men in education, training and the acquisition of resources, and often are treated unequally in their terms and conditions of employment. This book is intended as a resource to help eliminate gender discrimination…

What kind of agriculture do we need to feed the world? World leaders have committed themselves to halving hunger by the year 2015 as a first step towards food for all. But is this an achievable target?John Madeley's new book shows we already have th…

African women have begun in recent years to research and campaign against the practice of female circumcision. Dr. Koso-Thomas shows that female circumcision is not confined to the Horn of Africa or the Muslim areas of the Continent. Her study of th…

This policy-relevant study grew out of an evaluation conducted by its authors - all scholars at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam - of the World Health Organization's Action Programme on Ess…

This book, written at the request of practitioners and donor agencies, draws on the author's research and practical experience in Bangladesh, Philippines and East Africa.Section One outlines cutting edge issues, including:* How far micro-finance can…

This study aims to sensitise all those concerned wtih Africa's development - including African leaders, policy makers and scholars - to the potential revolution that has transformed Eastern Europe and its relations with the West since 1989. The stud…

Storying Relationships explores the sexual lives of young British Muslims in their own words and through their own stories. It finds engaging and surprising stories in a variety of settings: when young people are chatting with their friends; convers…

Feminism is so last century. Surely in today's world the idea is irrelevant and unfashionable?Wrong. Since the turn of the millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions. Based on a survey of over a thousand fe…