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    The Safe Schools Program: a Qualitative Study To Examine School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Malawi

    2008
    This resource summarises the results of a participatory learning and action (PLA) research activity conducted in Malawi's Machinga District to help raise awareness, involvement, and accountability around school-related gender-based violence at national, institutional, community and individual levels. The study was conducted in October and November 2005 by DevTech Systems, Inc.
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    Safe Schools Every Girl's Right

    Amnesty International, 2008
    Every day, girls face being assaulted on their way to school or abducted for trafficking, pushed and hit in school grounds, teased, humiliated and insulted by their classmates, sexually harassed or abused because they are lesbians, disabled, migrants or refugees. In conflict areas, girls can be seized by armed groups, and some are injured or killed on their journey to school.
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    And Hens Began to Crow: Young African Women Engage the Public Sphere

    Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2006
    The political and social economic changes of today create 'new' obstacles for young women to advance in the public sphere: changes in gender relations leading to gender justice and social equity have been de-prioritised by more 'pressing' issues like the negative impact of economic liberalisation on health and education, the rise of religious fundamentalisms, human security and protection.
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    International Youth Perspectives on Youth Abortion: a Collection of Essays, Poems and Drawings

    Youth Coalition, 2007
    Many adolescent girls and young women throughout the world find themselves faced with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, often as a result of a lack of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services, and/or forced sexual relations. In February 2007, the Youth Coalition began the first of five National Abortion Advocacy Workshops in Paraguay.
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    The Girl Child and Armed Conflict: Recognizing and Addressing Grave Violations of Girls? Human Rights

    2006
    During armed conflict, girls are subject to widespread and sometimes systematic human rights violations that have mental, physical and material repercussions. These violations can include: illegal detention, abduction and forced removal from families and homes, forced recruitment into fighting forces, slavery, sexual exploitation and increased exposure to HIV/AIDS.
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    Widows, AIDS, Health and Human Rights in Africa

    2004
    This paper argues that widows and female children in Tanzania have traditionally been denied the right to inherit property from their husbands, even when the property was acquired during the marriage. This is further complicated by a three-part legal system consisting of customary law (law grounded in customs or traditions), Islamic law, and statutory law (law set down by a legislature).
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    Hidden: a profile of married adolescents in Northern Nigeria

    Action Health Incorporated, 2006
    Research and programmes aimed at improving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents in Nigeria have largely focused on unmarried girls and boys. But early marriage is prevalent in Nigeria, particularly in the North. In the North-West of the country, for example, an estimated 73 percent of teenage girls are married, usually to older men chosen for them by their parents.
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    Gender: Kosova's Other Challenge

    Bridgewater State College, 2005
    In addition to resolving ongoing ethnic tensions and independence issues, this paper argues that there is another major challenge Kosova must address to realise social justice and prosperity: gender equality. It examines the extent of differences in roles between the genders in Kosova, using data from several thousand household surveys conducted in the first half of 2004.
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    The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Marriage Market for Women: Results from Tajikistan

    Poverty Frontiers, 2006
    What are the links between violent conflict, marriage markets and female reproductive behaviour? This short paper explores the impact of civil wars on household and individual behaviour, using the 1992 to 1998 conflict in Tajikistan as a case study.
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    Tunaweza (kiswahili: we can do it!): Measuring the Impact of Sport on Girls? Life Skills

    BRIDGE, 2008
    How can we be sure that sport-in-development is a useful tool for improving life skills among girls and young women? This paper presents a method for measuring changes in life skills developed by Moving the Goalposts (MTG), a sport-in-development program in Kilifi, Kenya which uses football to improve the life skills of participants.

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