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The following publications have been acquired in our Resource Center. If you need any further information or want to access these publications, please contact the APWLD Secretariat.

Our thanks to Development Alternative with Women for a New Era (DAWN), Heinrich Boll Foundation, Faculty of Social Science at Chiangmai University, Human Rights Watch, Royal Tropical Institute, and Amnesty International.

Organizations which would like their current publications to be introduced or made available for access in our Resouce Center can send them to Taeko Kawamura, Resource Officer at the APWLD Secretariat.

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Political Restructuring and Social Transformation:
Feminist Critical Essays in Southeast Asia
Edited by Josefa S. Francisco, Stella Eloisa Marquez-Fong. DAWN, 2000. ISBN: 971-91468-6-9 p. 106

This collection of essays presents a range of feminist analytical approaches and theoretical musings that interrogate the cultural meanings underpinning the Southeast Asian states as these redefine roles and strategies of governance in the context of globalization. It also attempts to uncover dilemmas and challenges in light of women’s movement’s critical engagement with state reform.

Women and Religion Vol.111:
Seeds of Violence
Edited by Eman M. Ahmed Heinrich Boll Foundation Regional Office South Asia. 1998 p. 177

This book is a collection of essays of culture and resource management during the last two decades in Northern Thailand. During this period, Thailand has gone through rapid economic development, but only a few urban centers have benefited from such growth promotion while rural majority are still very much left in poverty. The essays in the book bring us to the new terrain of cultural dimension of resource management.

Broken People:
Caste Violence Against India’s “Untouchables”
Human Rights Watch, 1998 ISBN 1-56432-228-9, P. 291

Some 160 million people in India, called “untouchable” or Dalits are discriminated against. denied access to land, forced to work in degrading conditions, and routinely abused, even killed, at the hand of the police and of higher-caste groups who enjoy state’s protection. This report is based on a research interviewing more than 300 Dalit men and women who were chosen on the basis of their willingness and ablility to speak freely with Human Rights Watch.

Institutionalizing Gender Equality:
Commitment, Policy and Practice, a Global Source BookRoyal Tropical Institute, 2000 ISBN 0-85598-459-7, P.172

This book reflects increasing interest in the experiences of organizations that have begun to incorporate women and gender considerations in their policies, not only for projects and programmes but also within their own organizations. This book includes electric documents, an annotated bibliography and a list of web resources on government organizations. It provides an overview of efforts towards achieving gender equality.

Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds:
Torture and Ill-treatment of Women

Amnesty International, 2000 P. 67

Torture of women is a fundamental violation of human rights, prohibited in all circumstances under international law. This report is one of a series of publication by Amnesty International as part of its worldwide campaign against torture. It aims to mobilize people around the world to confront and eradicate the torture of women.