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    Cause for Great Concern: The Status of Reproductive Health in Peru

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2003
    Despite important advances in the last 40 years, are women's sexual and reproductive health rights being threatened? This newsletter, written by the Director of the San Mart¡n de Porres University Medical Clinic in Lima, Peru, highlights the ways women's sexual and reproductive rights are being undermined by the Peruvian government of Alejandro Toledo, who came to power in 2001.
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    Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health: a Subject as much for Men as for Women

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2003
    How are men involved in the sexual and reproductive health of women? This working paper of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) is an overview of research on the extent of men's participation in women's health.
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    Gender profile: Peru

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2002
    What is the condition of women in Peru? This gender profile by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) offers a statistical overview of the condition of urban and rural women with respect to unemployment, status in the workplace, life expectancy and working and living conditions. Poverty is an ongoing concern and half the population continues to subsist below the poverty line.
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    CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Egypt

    United Nations, 2000
    This submission by the government of Egypt to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) combines the fourth and fifth periodic reports, covering the period 1994 to 1998. It highlights the important role women have played in the country's development processes.
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    Kidnapping Brides in Kyrgyzstan: Prescriptive Human Rights Measures

    Human Rights Tribune, 2000
    Bride kidnapping has been revived as an authentic Kyrgyz tradition, resulting in the large-scale violation of women's rights in the name of preserving Kyrgyz 'culture'. This practice was outlawed during Soviet rule and is technically still illegal under the Kyrgyz's Criminal Code.
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    Briefing Notes on: Gender Perspectives on Disarmament

    Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, 2001
    This collection of briefing notes was launched by the United Nations (UN) Department for Disarmament Affairs (DDA), in collaboration with the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women (OSAGI). The notes are part of a broader project designed to make disarmament more effective.
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    Gender and the Peacekeeping Military: A View from Bosnian Women's Organisations

    Lawrence and Wishart, 2002
    What are the consequences for the work of women's NGOs in regions that host armed international peacekeepers? This chapter draws out observations and potential policy lessons from a study conducted with eight women's organisations located in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Sprska.
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    Contested Terrain: Oxfam, Gender, and the Aftermath of War

    Oxfam, 2001
    The topic of gender relations in the context of conflict covers highly sensitive terrain, not only within the war-torn society, but for intervening institutions. Like other international humanitarian agencies, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has faced difficult questions about whether its presence has sometimes done more harm than good.
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    How to Guide: [Sexual and Gender-Based Violence] SGV Programme Monitoring and Evaluation

    Health and Community Development Section, 2000
    Programmes that tackle sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) in refugee settings need to take into account a number of issues and problems unique to this context. Some of the main problems arise from the need to bring together many diverse actors who will work on the same case, such as mental and physical health care workers, the police, government workers and legal advisers/officers.
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    Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens

    United Nations Development Programme, 2003
    A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.

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