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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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    Women and War: Special Report

    International Committee of the Red Cross, 2003
    In March 2003, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) published this report as a follow-up to their piece entitled Women Facing War (see summary of previous report in Siyanda). The ICRC has long recognised that armed conflicts have devastating effects on civilian populations and on women in particular.
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    Autonomy in Child Labour Migrants

    Overseas Development Group, East Anglia University (UEA) School of Development Studies, 2000
    The idea that children may be active decision-makers has received little serious attention from social scientists. New research on data from rural Karnataka, India, suggests that very young males leave for the city in considerable numbers often in direct conflict with parental preferences.
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    Gendering Ethnicity in Kyrgyzstan: Forgotten Elements in Promoting Peace and Democracy

    Oxfam, 2001
    Women's potential positive role in preventing and arresting ethnic conflict, and their obvious absence in conflict resolution initiatives, has been largely ignored and negated from community to international donor levels.
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    Socialization to gender roles and marriage among Egyptian adolescents

    World Conservation Union, 2000
    How does Egyptian society influence the development of set gender roles amongst adolescents in preparation for marriage' Using national survey data, this paper explores gender socialisation and attitudes towards marriage among unmarried Egyptian adolescents aged 16-19 years. Great gender differences were found.
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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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    Children: Project Outline and Logframe for Future DFID Support to Southeast Asia Regional ILO-IPEC Programme to Tackle Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation

    BRIDGE, 1999
    Outline of a project in the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) which focuses on the trafficking of women and children from a human rights and labour exploitation perspective.

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