INSTRAW Library

Welcome to the INSTRAW LIBRARY, a compilation of around 600 publications produced by the former UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW), which served as the leading UN institute devoted to research, training and knowledge management to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment. INSTRAW, along with DAW, OSAGI and UNIFEM, came together in 2010 to establish the present UN Women.

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The Legacy of INSTRAW

In addition to the INSTRAW Library, the UN Women Training Centre presents the publication “The legacy of INSTRAW in promoting the rights of women. A historical record of the Institute between 1976 and 2010”, which intends to pay tribute to the story of INSTRAW as well as to the women’s movements and governments which supported it.

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ID: 2010-I-MIG-PHL-VOI-EN
Reference: Voices from the Field: Migration, Remittances and Development in the Philippines. (2008). Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: INSTRAW.
Year: 2008
Description: This document summarizes the interviews conducted by UN- INSTRAW/IFAD/FWD with migrants in Italy and their families back home in the Philippines focusing on the individual impact of migration and remittances on migrants, their gender roles relationships with their families, their economic well-being and the ways in which their lives, and those of their children have changed as a result.
Instraw's Mandate: Information dissemination
Theme: Migration
Keywords: Remittances , Development, International Relationship
Geographic Area: Asia
Languages: English
Type of Product: Human story
Disponibility: Digital/Text
LinkToFile: PDF FILE