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This introduction provides a brief insertion into the background of various initiatives involving the promotion of issues relating to women in the UN, IMO and the maritime industry. It then presents an overview of the second Maritime Women: Global Leadership conference hosted by IMO and World Maritime University on the 31st to the 1st of April, 2014. Finally, the introduction serves as a preamble to the five parts of this book, firstly elaborating on historic and contemporary issues related to the various parts, where after a brief presentation is given of the papers adhering to the respective part.
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See Part V. Sustainability issues in shipping.
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See also KNOW-ME project under the EU Framework programme 7, http://www.know-me.org/.
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See also KNOW-ME project under the EU Framework programme 7, http://www.know-me.org/.
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See also KNOW-ME project under the EU Framework programme 7, http://www.know-me.org/.
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See also UN Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20, http://www.uncsd2012.org/.
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See also Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals, http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/owg.html.
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This statement was delivered by Roberta Clarke, Regional Director for Asia-Pacific for UN Women at the seventh Official Plenary of the Third International conference on SIDS, http://t.ymlp265.net/yjuqaiauhmhwalaeubafawu/click.php.
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Froholdt, L.L., Williams, E., Kitada, M. (2015). Introduction. In: Kitada, M., Williams, E., Froholdt, L. (eds) Maritime Women: Global Leadership. WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45385-8_1
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