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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, 2003For 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.DocumentImplementing 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, 1999One 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.DocumentJust Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women's Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda
2003Domestic 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.DocumentDeadly Delay: South Africa's Efforts to Prevent HIV in Survivors of Sexual Violence
2004In 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.DocumentAddressing gender-based violence from the reproductive health/HIV sector: a literature review and analysis
US Agency for International Development, 2004This 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.DocumentShadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)
Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003This 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.DocumentCEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia
United Nations, 2002Ethiopia 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.DocumentViolence against women and AIDS
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004This fact sheet analyses the issue of violence against women and its relationship with AIDS.DocumentBRIDGE Report 56: Gender and Development: Facts and Figures
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000What 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.DocumentAlternative Report of Cladem Peru on the Implementation in Peru of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
2002This 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).Pages
