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  Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers

  Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003

  For some years, awareness about the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women in situations of war and armed conflict has been growing. As a result, humanitarian aid programmes are paying more and more attention to the provision of SRH services in the field, but a more holistic and integrated approach to SRH is often still lacking.
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  Implementing adolescent reproductive rights through the Convention on the Rights of the Child

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 1999

  One in five people in the world is an adolescent. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) encompasses the human rights of people aged 0-18, hence by definition includes adolescents. Yet there remains a significant gap between provisions prescribed in the CRC and the reality of adolescents' reproductive health and lives.
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  Just Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women's Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda

  2003

  Domestic violence, including marital rape, is exposing Ugandan women to HIV infection. This report is based on 120 interviews with women across Uganda and further interviews with government officials, NGOs, police, community leaders and traditional healers. Most of the women see sex with husbands as a marital obligation and domestic violence as an inevitable part of marriage.
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  Deadly Delay: South Africa's Efforts to Prevent HIV in Survivors of Sexual Violence

  2004

  In South Africa women and girls not only suffer the trauma of sexual violence but face the trauma of potential HIV infection. Risk of transmission however, is reduced if rape survivors are promptly given antiretroviral drugs (called in this case 'post-exposure prophylaxis' [PEP]). In 2002 the South African government took the significant step of pledging to provide PEPs to all rape survivors.
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  Addressing gender-based violence from the reproductive health/HIV sector: a literature review and analysis

  US Agency for International Development, 2004

  This USAID Interagency Gender Working Group document provides a literature review and analysis of developing country programmes that have addressed or challenged gender-based violence with a link to the reproductive health (RH)/HIV sectors.
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  Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

  Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003

  This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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  Violence against women and AIDS

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004

  This fact sheet analyses the issue of violence against women and its relationship with AIDS.
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  BRIDGE Report 56: Gender and Development: Facts and Figures

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  What evidence is there of gender inequalities in life outcomes between women and men? This report provides facts and figures that expose gender inequalities, providing evidence of the need to engender development.
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  Alternative Report of Cladem Peru on the Implementation in Peru of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  2002

  This shadow report, led by The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights -Peru (CLADEM-Peru), contributes to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

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