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    Connecting the global to the local: reflections on CSW 59 and the work of collective actors to address structural violence in South Africa

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    This report from Thea Shahrokh and Elizabeth Mills of the Institute for Development Studies reflects on the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59), and ties it to the work of collective actors addressing structural violence in South Africa.
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    Women and peace and security: report of the Secretary-General

    United Nations Security Council, 2010
    This report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Security Council (UNSRC) concerns women, peace and security, and the difficulty of highlighting significant achievements ten years after the adoption of Resolution 1325 (October 2000), which sought to draw attention to the disproportionate suffering of women in areas of armed conflict, and promote women's participation in peace negotiation
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    Tool: indicators for measuring results on gender equality

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2010
    The purpose of this Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) publication is to provide a selection of potential indicators from which SIDA country teams can choose to help monitor results in gender equality work in different sectors.
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    Measuring women’s empowerment and social transformation in the post-2015 agenda

    Overseas Development Institute, 2014
    While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have made some progress in certain areas of gender equality, they will ultimately fail to produce the sustainable human rights-based social transformation that is needed. If the post-2015 framework is to succeed in this regard, it must target the promotion of inclusive and social transformations that address poverty and exclusion at its roots.
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    Briefing cards: Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and the post-2015 development agenda

    Family Care International, 2014
    This set of five briefing cards, produced by the Universal Access Project, sets out the links between sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) and five areas key to the post-2015 development agenda. The areas are education, economic benefits, the broader health agenda, gender equality and the environment.
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    Strategies of resistance: challenging the cultural disempowerment of women, a global project of the WRRC

    Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2011
    Led by the organisation Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), the Women Reclaiming and Redefining Cultures (WRRC) project seeks to address the nexus of control over women's sexuality, imposed through violence and exclusion from public arenas, to strategize around the assertion of women's rights over body, self and public spaces as interconnected sites of contestation; and to challenge
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    UK Home Office resource collection: female genital mutilation

    Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, 2014
    This UK Home Office online resource series brings together all documents relating to FGM. The documents found here include statements opposing FGM, guidance notes, impact assessments, policy papers, correspondence, forms and promotional material.
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    Accelerating the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting

    United Nations Population Fund, 2014
    The Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), co-sponsored by UNFPA and UNICEF, aims to see communities that practice it abandon FGM/C within a generation. Key to their success is using a human rights-based approach to encourage communities to act collectively, so that girls or their families who opt out do not jeopardise marriage prospects or become social outcasts.
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    Aligning with local cultures to end female genital mutilation/cutting

    United Nations Population Fund, 2013
    Decades of efforts to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) have demonstrated that direct assaults on practices laden with cultural significance are doomed to fail. This publication highlights lessons learnt, in order to formulate new strategies that take a more 'culturally sensitive' approach.
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    ‘I Carry the Name of my Parents’: young people’s reflections on FGM and forced marriage - results from PEER studies in London, Amsterdam and Lisbon

    Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development, 2013
    This report presents the results of three participatory ethnographic evaluation research (PEER) studies, carried out as part of the CREATE Youth-Net project, which aims to safeguard young people in three European countries (the United Kingdom, Portugal and the Netherlands) from harmful practices, in particular Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage.

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