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  Gender, Class and Access to Water: Three Cases in a Poor and Crowded Delta

  Taylor and Francis Group, 2006

  Water plays a pivotal role in economic activity and in human well-being. It is essential to food production and in domestic use (drinking, washing, and cooking). Yet the social relations which determine access to, and use of, water are poorly understood. Conflict over water may have far-reaching consequences on social change.
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  Bangladesh: Gender Mainstreaming Processes in Community-based Flood Risk Management, a Case Study from the Gender and IWRM Resource Guide

  Gender and Water Alliance, 2005

  In 2004 the Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) in Bangladesh designed and implemented a project on flood vulnerability, risk reduction and improved preparedness through community-based information. Household and community responses to events such as floods are an indicator of vulnerability and of people's ability to cope with hazards.
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  Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Thirty-first session: Consideration of Fifth Periodic Report of Bangladesh. Summary records of the 653rd and 654th meetings

  2004

  Resources allocated to the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs in Bangladesh have increased fivefold in the last three years. This was one of the achievements flagged up by the delegation from Bangladesh as they presented their Fifth Periodic Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
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  Shadow Report to the Fifth Periodic Report of the Government of Bangladesh

  Steps Towards Development, 2004

  Has the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh delivered on their promises as a signatory of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
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  Needs Assessment Study on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practice (KAP) for Advocacy on Protection and Promotion of Human Rights of Sex Workers

  2003

  There are more than 150,000 sex-workers in Bangladesh. Society chooses to ignore the demand aspect of the sex trade and systematically denies sex workers basic human rights like access to basic services, including the right to proper burial. CARE Bangladesh commissioned this study as part of its advocacy work for the protection and promotion of the human rights of sex workers.
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  Gender Relations in Bangladesh: the Household and Beyond. Dowry, Women's Property Rights and Salish, a Literature Review

  2004

  This paper is a literature review of how gender relations are constructed in Bangladesh and how women's agency or power to take decisions and make choices is exercised within the rural household, the more extended circle of family and friends and the wider community.
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  Bangladesh Gender Profile

  2006

  Although gender relations in Bangladesh have undergone considerable transformation, women are still struggling with issues relating to poverty, violence, poor education and health, poor nutrition, and low levels of participation in decision-making.
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  The Human Security Framework and National Human Development Reports: a review of experiences and current debates

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2006

  This paper identifies some interesting and useful applications of the Human Security Framework.
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  Removing barriers to rural-urban trade

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Trade between rural and urban areas in poor countries is important for economic growth and poverty reduction. But there are several of barriers that can prevent rural-urban market links from working properly. If these barriers are removed, trade will increase and the cost of goods will go down.
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  Missing in action: teacher and health worker absence in developing countries

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2005

  This paper presents the results of teacher and health worker absenteeism in primary schools and health clinics in Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Peru, and Uganda.Main findings from the study include:averaging across the countries, about 19 percent of teachers and 35 percent of health workers were absentin India, one quarter of government primary school teachers were absent f

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