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    Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2003
    At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 governments pledged collective responsibility to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first being to halve world poverty by 2015, and the third to "Promote gender equality and empower women". This book provides evidence as to why promoting gender equality is essential for halving world poverty and realising all eight MDGs.
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    Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa

    2000
    Information is universally acknowledged to be central to sustainable and equitable development. In Africa, however, access to information is limited, and especially so for rural women. The new information and communication technologies(ICTs), centred mostly on the Internet, provide potential to redress this imbalance.
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    Viet Nam: Children and Women: A Situation Analysis, 2000

    2000
    Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) are mutually reinforcing and mutually dependant.
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    Scared at school: sexual violence against girls in South African schools

    Human Rights Watch, 2001
    Rape, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and assault at school are hindering the educational rights of South African girls from all socio-economic groups. International and national laws guarantee girls the right to education without discrimination. Yet perpetrators are male classmates and teachers who are rarely challenged or disciplined by authorities.
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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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    BRIDGE Report 32: Background Report on Gender Issues in India: Key Findings and Recommendations

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1995
    How are gender relations evolving in India' Awareness of gender issues in India has increased due to the influence of the women's movement, feminist debates and donor advocacy. However this awareness has yet to be translated into policy and practice that significantly improves gender equality in the family, government, social services, economic activities and political participation.
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    Empowering the Next Generation: Girls of the Maqattam Garbage Settlement

    Population Council, 1998
    Lessons learned from interventions aimed at extending employment opportunities and broader social roles to adolescent girls in the settlement of Maqattam (on the outskirts of Cairo) are the focus of this publication. Livelihoods of Maqattam families are directly or indirectly linked to garbage collection and sorting, and almost half of households have adolescent daughters.

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