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    Education in rural areas: obstacles and relevance

    Foundation for International Research on Working Children, 2007
    This in depth study focuses on education in rural areas and the obstacles faced by parents and children in seven developing countries, namely Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Ethiopia.
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    Children affected by HIV/AIDS in South Asia: a synthesis of current global, regional and national thinking and research

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2007
    The report concludes that around ten million children are affected by HIV and AIDS in South Asia, and their prospects are bleak unless they get access to antiretroviral treatment.
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    Promoting Gender Equality in the Aid Effectiveness Agenda in Asia Pacific - Engaging the Principles of the Paris Declaration

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    In August 2007 representatives from 11 countries in the Asia Pacific region convened to examine the extent to which the guiding principles of the 2005 Paris Declaration have provided opportunities to advance gender equality and development agendas.
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    "We Know What We Need!" South Asian Women Speak Out On Climate Change Adaptation

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Poor women in Bangladesh, India and Nepal are struggling to protect their lives, homes, assets and livelihoods from weather-related hazards caused by climate change. Nevertheless, women are not passive victims of climate change. This report presents field research conducted in the Ganga river basin in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal, with poor women in rural areas.
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    Gender action plans and gender equality results: rapid gender assessments of ADB Projects. Synthesis report

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) 1998 Gender and Development (GAD) policy identified gender mainstreaming as a key strategy for addressing gender inequity. Project-specific gender action plans (GAPs) were introduced as a mechanism to implement the policy.
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    Global Corruption Report 2007

    Transparency International, 2007
    This year’s report concentrates on judicial systems and warns that corruption is undermining judicial systems around the world, denying citizens access to justice and the basic human right to a fair and impartial trial. The report provides comparative analysis of judicial corruption based on 32 country reports and provides
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    Debating shifting cultivation in the Eastern Himalayas: farmers’ innovations as lessons for policy

    International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, (ICIMOD), Nepal, 2006
    Hundreds of millions of people in Asia are dependent on shifting cultivation, yet the practice has tended to be seen in a negative light and discouraged by policy makers. This document challenges prevailing assumptions, arguing that shifting cultivation – if properly practised – is actually a ‘good practice’ system for productively using hil
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    General considerations on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples in Asia

    Tebtebba Foundation, Phillippines, 2007
    This report presents a general overview of the situation of the rights of indigenous peoples in Asia. Drawing from specific examples in various Asian countries, it focuses on issues of particular concern in the region including the loss of indigenous land and resources, internal conflict and the special abuses faced by indigenous women.
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    Anti-child trafficking legislation in Asia: a six country review

    International Labour Organization, 2006
    What are the inadequacies of the legal frameworks addressing the problem of cross- border trafficking? This extensive paper looks at international legal frameworks, and regional conventions. It highlights inadequacies of the legal frameworks in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia as well as the discrepancies between the national laws and international instruments.
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    Adapting to climate change – how do poor people cope?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Climate change will increase the gaps between developed and developing countries, in terms of wealth, health and food security. This will make achieving goals to reduce poverty more difficult.

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