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  Any Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?

  2005

  Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.
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  Manual for Evaluating Quality of Care from a Gender Perspective

  2000

  This manual is designed for reproductive health institutions that want to assess the quality of care of their services and programmes from a broad gender perspective.
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  NGO Alternative Pre-Sessional Report on Israel's Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)

  2005

  Israel is responsible under international law to implement the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Palestinian Occupied Territories (OPT). Why, then, are violations of the Convention in the OPT widespread and increasing?
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  Gender Equality Forgotten in UN Reform Process

  2006

  ?UN reform without a separate, definitive track for women is a travesty?, argued Stephen Lewis, the former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, in a 2006 conference on United Nations (UN) reform. The appointment of the High-Level Panel on UN reform, he argued, offers us a perfect entry point for the creation of an international, multilateral women's agency.
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  Gender, HIV/AIDS and Stigma: Understanding Prejudice Against Women Living with HIV/AIDS

  BRIDGE, 2006

  62 men and women between the ages of 18 and 55 from the Khayelitsha Township in the Western Cape participated in six focus groups in this study about the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. They reported that HIV/AIDS is seen as a woman's disease. This is not simply because most women die from it but also because positive women experience stigma more than men. Norms of ?township masculinity?
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  Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS

  2006

  Around the world, women are facing a catastrophic assault on their bodies, their rights and their health as a result of the prevalence of HIV and the unrelenting levels of violence against women on a global level. Each constitutes a crisis on its own. Yet in the lives of millions of women these crises are not separable; they are fundamentally linked.
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  The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Violence Against the Girl Child - Report of the UN Secretary-General

  2006

  Discrimination and violence against the girl child persist in all parts of the world. This report has been prepared in accordance with the programme of work of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for 2007-2009, which identified ?The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child? as the priority theme for the Commission's fifty-first session.
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  Children's Property and Inheritance Rights and Their Livelihoods: The Context of HIV and AIDS in Southern and East Africa

  2006

  There are 34 million orphans in Africa, of which 11 million are AIDS orphans (nearly 80 per cent of the world's total). Extended family support systems, which once absorbed and assumed care for orphans, have become weaker in recent years, as families have become increasingly urbanised, industrialised and nuclear.
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  Pregnant women living with HIV/AIDS: protecting human rights in programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2005

  Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programmes are designed to reduce the rate of transmission from a woman to her fetus (unborn baby) or newborn during pregnancy, delivery, or the post-birth period.
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  BRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography

  BRIDGE, 2007

  HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.

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