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    My rights, my voice: annual progress report 2013

    Oxfam, 2014
    My Rights, My Voice (MRMV) engages marginalized children and youth in their rights to health and education services in eight countries. The 2013 Annual Progress Report provides an overview of the second year of this innovative three year programme and of the MRMV Global Programme Framework.
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    The Millennium Development Goals Report 2014

    UN, 2014
    Fourteen years ago, the Millennium Declaration articulated a bold vision and established concrete targets for improving the existence of many and for saving the lives of those threatened by disease and hunger. There has been important progress across all goals, with some targets already having been met well ahead of the 2015 deadline.
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    Implementing the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: Analysing the Compliance of Kenya's Legal Framework

    Oxfam, 2014
    This report analyses the implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol in Kenya. The Maputo Protocol guarantees comprehensive rights to women. The report analyses the steps that have been taken in Kenya on a legal, policy, and practical level to implement the Maputo Protocol.
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    No way out: child marriage and human rights abuses in Tanzania

    Human Rights Watch, 2014
    In Tanzania, 4 out of 10 girls are married before their 18th birthday. A study by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimated that 37 percent of Tanzanian women aged 20−24 years were first married or in union before the age of 18, between 2000−2011. Human Rights Watch documented cases where girls as young as seven were married.
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    "Those terrible weeks in their camp" Boko Haram violence against women and girls in northeast Nigeria

    Human Rights Watch, 2014
    Boko Haram, Nigeria’s home-grown Islamist insurgency, whose name in Hausa roughly translates as “Western education is forbidden,” has abducted at least 500 women and girls from northern Nigeria since 2009 and has perpetrated numerous human rights abuses against them in captivity.
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    A sectoral and process oriented approach to the human rights agenda in Pakistan

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1994
    The human rights agenda in Pakistan is presently based on the assumption that all sectors of the society requiring human rights protection, vis-a-vis their vulnerability to human rights violation, have been pre-determined and the necessary processes for their defence established. Pre-dominant in these groups and communities are women, children and religious and ethnic minorities.
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    Social accountability of women in Pakistan: a case study of Sialkot

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Social Accountability as a mean of holding the state accountable to its citizens is not usually practiced in Pakistan. One of the prerequisites of Social Accountability is the right to information. The second major hindrance in the way of social accountability is the capacity and capability of citizens as how much they have empowered themselves to fight for their rights.
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    The criminal justice system and rape: an attitudinal study of the public sector response to rape in Karachi

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2012
    In the year 2011, the Capital City Police reported that 103 cases of rape and sexual assault were reported across Karachi. However, in community meetings held across Karachi in all 18 towns of the city, participants knew of over 50 cases that had never been reported to the police. The exact frequency of cases is impossible to establish.
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    Accelerating progress in Family Planning: options for strengthening civil society-led monitoring and accountability

    Results for Development Institute, 2014
    In recent years, accountability initiatives led by citizens and civil society organizations (CSOs) have proliferated, particularly in the health and education sectors.
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    Transforming the development agenda requires more, not less, attention to human rights.

    OpenDemocracy, 2014
    This essay/blog by Radhika Balakrishnan (Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership, and a Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, at Rutgers University), and Ignacio Saiz, (Executive Director of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR), provides an overview of the current debate around the inclusion of human rights in the draft sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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