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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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    Women, Sexuality and Social Change in the Middle East and the Maghreb

    2002
    What makes women experience sexuality in particular ways, and how can this be challenged when it contributes to inequality and abuse of human rights?
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    Le D?sir Amput?, Sexual Experience of Lebanese Women: 15 Years Later

    2002
    How do women understand their sexuality? This paper is based on a research project on the sexual experience of a group of Christian women in a traditional Lebanese society. The research looked at school (education), family (virginity and autoerotic practice) and marriage - institutions, it argues, which operate to maintain the status quo.
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    Gender and Development: An Information Kit

    2000
    This information kit is a tool for gender and development specialists/ consultants working in Egypt. It was produced by the Gender and Development (GAD) Sub-Group, the body responsible for coordinating and sharing information between the UN, bilateral donor and Egyptian NGOs on gender initiatives in Egypt. The kit is broken down into five booklets.
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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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    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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    Guide to Gender and Development

    Australian Agency for International Development, 2002
    A general checklist of key gender issues to consider during the project cycle, as well as specific education sector guiding questions.
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    The Reflect Mother Manual

    ActionAid International, 1998
    In October 1993 Actionaid, (a British based international NGO working in 20 countries) began a two year action research project to explore possible uses of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques within adult literacy programmes.
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    Education: Bibliographies

    BRIDGE, 1999
    Bibliographies on: Key Texts and Policy Documents; Gender and Education Issues in Social Development Department (of DFID) Papers; DFID Education Division Research Papers; Gender and Education Systems; Country Focus Papers - Zambia; Gender and Literacy; Gender Analysis and Participatory Approaches.
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    Children: Facts and Figures

    BRIDGE, 1999
    Tables of key statistics on gender and children covering: the annual death rate of 2-5 year olds by sex; gender gaps in the classroom; school achievement; and the risks to physical, social and emotional well-being of early marriage.

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