Women in Latin America: Unequal progress toward equality

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Volumn 98, Issue 626, 1999, Pages 133-135

  Htun, Mala ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 30844458375     PISSN: 00113530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (4)

1. For comprehensive data on the status of women in Latin America, see the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO), Latin American Women: Compared Figures (Santiago: FLACSO, 1995). Data on women in parliaments around the world is available at the Inter-Parliamentary Union website at http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm.
2. See Lori L. Heise et al., Violence Against Women: The Hidden Health Burden (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Discussion Paper 255, 1994);
3. Inter-American Development Bank, Domestic Violence (Washington, D.C., 1997);
4. and Dorothy Thomas, Criminal Injustice: Violence Against Women in Brazil (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991).