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    A Fair Chance: Attaining Gender Equality in Basic Education by 2005

    ActionAid International, 2003
    At the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders agreed to get as many girls as boys into primary and secondary classrooms by 2005. Despite the deadline being less than two years away, no country is so far off track that it could not eliminate gender gaps in rural and urban primary and secondary school intake rates by 2005.
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    Does Sex Make a Difference: An Equalities Pack for Young People on International Women's Day

    2003
    ?Get a Life!? is one message of this pack which looks at why women are underrepresented in politics in the UK. Young people, particularly girls, are encouraged to get involved in politics and representative bodies in school, community and government. Positive stories are presented of women's and young people's participation in politics.
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    Women Hold Up Half the Sky

    2003
    This series of eight training videos which accompanies the above workbook is for learning about the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its relevance to women's daily lives. These short narrative dramas showing the effects of patriarchy on women and girls are based on real life stories.
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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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    CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of State Parties: Peru

    United Nations, 2001
    Peru's fifth submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) outlines the status of women in Peru. The government has faced difficulties changing attitudes that discriminate against women.
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    Beyond Victims and Villains: Addressing Sexual Violence in the Education Sector

    Panos Institute, London, 2003
    Gender-based violence has physical, sexual, and psychological consequences, and is frequently the cause of ill health and even death among women aged 15 to 44. Younger women appear to be particularly at risk. Gender violence worldwide often remains unaddressed. It is rarely talked about within schools and universities, which are often perceived to be the safest places.
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    The Integration of Women's Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership/L'integration des Droits des Femmes dans le Partenariat Euro-Mediterraneen

    Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2003
    The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, launched in 1995, provides a framework for political, economic and social relations between the 12 partners of the southern Mediterranean and 15 European Union member states. This report explores the dynamics that hinder and promote women's rights within this partnership and in the Middle East and North Africa.
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    Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

    Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003
    The goal of this project was to assist illiterate and out-of-school adolescent girls in making informed decisions regarding their reproductive health and rights. The Aamaa Milan Kendra (AMK or Mothers' Club), an NGO set up in 1999 in Nepal, has been supporting activities that help adolescent girls challenge gender inequity and expand their life options.
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    Educating girls: transforming the future

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2000
    Education is fundamental for individual lifelong development and brings multiple social and economic benefits. Yet over 130 million children - mostly girls - are denied this right.
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    The effect of early childhood development programs on women's labor force participation and older children's schooling in Kenya

    Gendernet, World Bank, 2000
    Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres have grown rapidly in number since Kenya's independence in 1963. The effectiveness of ECD investment is usually based on the school achievement and cognitive ability of ECD graduates. Little is known about the indirect benefits of ECD on the welfare of households.

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