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  The Provision of Childcare Services in the Czech Republic

  2008

  This paper draws attention to the problems faced by parents in the Czech Republic in finding a place for their child in pre-school facilities. This is due both to the decline of childcare services since 1989, coupled with the slightly increasing trend in the fertility rates in recent years.
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  Frozen in Success - Gay Activists Fear Czechs are Becoming Too Content with Past Achievements

  Transitions Online, 2008

  The 1st July 2008 marked the Czech Republic's two year anniversary of the passing of the same-sex partnerships law, a landmark achievement arising after years of political struggle and one that set the country apart from its Central European neighbours. By the end of 2007, 487 same-sex couples had entered a legal union.
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  Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and the Outcome of Twenty-Third Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly (2000) Questionnaire for the Czech Republic

  2004

  Following the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, the government of the Czech Republic adopted an action plan to support the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Mechanisms were also put in place to monitor progress towards the goals set out in the action plan.
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  Child Prostitution: the Commercial Exploitation of Children

  2008

  It is clear that child prostitution is a problem in the Czech Republic, with reports of internal trafficking of Czech children from areas of low employment near border regions with Germany and Austria, and of girls from the former Soviet Union, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East being trafficked to the Czech Republic for sexual purposes.
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  Because I am a girl: the state of the world's girls 2008

  Plan International, 2008

  How are girls affected by conflict and its aftermath? This report draws on the perspectives of girls and young women, particularly from Haiti, Liberia and Timor-Leste (East Timor), to explain why they experience war and conflict in the way that they do.
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  Building Positive Attitudes Towards Gender Equality: A Baseline Survey of Gender Quality Action Learning Programme

  2005

  A total of 1200 women and men received BRAC's Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) training in order to conduct local 'courtyard meetings' on gender equality issues with the 'ultra poor'. This baseline survey was conducted before these meetings - it assesses the pre-intervention (i) knowledge, (ii) perceptions and (iii) attitudes of 803 rural people towards gender relations in two districts.
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  Senegal Gender Profile

  2002

  Although the Constitution of Senegal prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, sex, class, or language, discrimination against women is pervasive, especially in rural areas where Islamic and traditional customs of polygyny and rules of inheritance are strictly observed. Senegalese women are in general confined to traditional roles.
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  Metaphors We Love By: Conceptualizations of Sex among Young People in Malawi

  Bioline International, 2007

  How do young people in Malawi conceptualise sexuality and sexual relations, and on what basis do they understand risks involved in sexual activities and make behavioural decisions?
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  Promotion of Human Rights and Gender Equality Related to Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Among Youth in Low-Income Areas of Buenos Aires Suburbs, Argentina

  BRIDGE, 2007

  In contexts of poverty, the sole fact of being young can be a cause of exclusion.
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  So Amul Boko (If You Haven't Got Money, You're Nobody)

  Genre en Action, 2005

  To what extent is the Senegalese women's entry into the waged labour market enabling them to consider roles for themselves beyond those of wives and mothers - Financial independence is a major condition for women's personal autonomy. However, are these social shifts enough for challenging the fundamentally patriarchal Senegalese culture, which is rooted in traditional roles and expectations.

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