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    Effective Practices in Sheltering Women. Leaving Violence in Intimate Relationships

    World Young Women's Christian Association, 2006
    What do Canadian women want from emergency shelters and how can shelter services be improved? This research documents the journey of 368 abused women as they entered and left emergency shelters in ten locations across Canada. The paper describes the nature of partner abuse, identifies the strategies that women adopted, and highlights what the women needed most from emergency shelters.
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    Disentangling The Web of Women's Poverty and Exclusion

    Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    The Canadian Government boasts eight years of budget surpluses but still there are increasing numbers of people living in poverty.
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    Briefing Note on Women's Rights and the ?Coherence Panel? in the UN Reform Process

    2006
    Women's organisations want to contribute to the United Nations (UN) reform process because present UN structures and systems are not delivering on equality issues. This briefing document outlines the changes suggested by women's organisations to the UN system and presents the response of the UN Secretary-General to these suggestions.
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    Background Note on the UN Reform Process and New Women's Architecture in the UN, Plus Accountability to Women's Rights in Canada

    Canadian Committee on Women and the UN Reform, 2006
    This paper provides the background to the call from women's organisations for a strong, independent body on gender equality and women's rights at the United Nations (UN). Reflecting the lack of coherent strategies on gender equality at the UN, this paper also suggests that the Canadian Government improves its approach to gender equality issues.
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    Gender Equality Now or Never: A New UN Agency for Women

    Office of the UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, 2006
    How must the United Nations (UN) change in order to deliver better outcomes for women? The UN's current mix of low-level departments, divisions and committees working on gender has been inadequate in pushing the gender equality agenda forward.
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    Gender Equality & United Nations Reform: A Resource Packet

    2007
    How did women's organisations and networks respond to the new gender equality architecture proposed by the United Nations (UN) High-Level Panel on UN System-Wide Coherence? What actions are women's groups taking? This resource pack outlines the UN's recommendations, gives information on the UN processes and provides statements of response from women's groups in South Asia, Africa and elsewhere.
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    Show us the money: is violence againts women on the HIV&AIDS donor agenda?

    Women Won't Wait, 2007
    Two pandemics threaten the health, lives and rights of women throughout the world: one is HIV and AIDS and the other is gender-based violence. Research confirms that intimate partner violence is a leading factor in the increasing ?feminization? of the global AIDS pandemic, resulting in disproportionately higher rates of HIV infection among women and girls.
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    Gender, Participation, Health and Positive Thinking: A Personal Perspective

    2004
    As an HIV positive activist herself, and from personal experience of donors and development organisations, Welbourn highlights the importance of understanding the widespread impact of HIV/AIDS on positive people, women in particular, and of involving them, in finding solutions to HIV-related problems.
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    A guide to civil society organisations working on democratic governance

    UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2005
    The Guide is provided primarily as a resource for UNDP offices working on democratic governance and seeking to strengthen engagement and further collaboration with civil society. The Guide is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of civil society organisations (CSOs) working on democratic governance. It is meant to indicate the growing breadth and complexity of CSO activity in this area.
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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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