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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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  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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  The gender guide: for health communication programs

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  How do gender roles prevent people accessing healthcare and information? How can a gender perspective make the communication of health messages more effective? This guide aimed at health professionals, programme managers and implementing staff shows how health messages must be suited to specific contexts. Such messages have the potential to reinforce or challenge social norms and behaviours.
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  Gender and Armed Conflict: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This collection of resources on gender and armed conflict sheds light on how gender inequality intersects with armed conflict and its aftermath, resulting in gender-specific disadvantage that is often overlooked.
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  Gender and Armed Conflict: Overview Report

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  In this report, which forms part of the Cutting Edge Pack on gender and armed conflict, the impact of armed conflict on gender relations, and the distinct ways that both women and men are affected, is explored. It highlights the gender-specific disadvantages experienced by women and men that are denied by conventional interpretations of armed conflict and post-conflict reconstruction processes.
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  Sexuality - a Super Force: Young People, Sexuality and Rights in the era of HIV/AIDS

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002

  "Sex is Good - Sex is Joy - Sex is Fun - Sex is Love - Sex is Power - Protected Sex is Life!" This is the message of this booklet, which argues that sexuality is natural and needed for procreation, and sexual drive is important for intimacy and pleasure. Many young people have sex during their teens, whether their parents know this or not.
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  The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  How do social relations change as a result of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction? This collection of essays links the experiences of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H), with that of the Netherlands, a country that deployed a large peacekeeping force in the war-stricken area.
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  Development Myths Around Sex and Sexualities in the South

  BRIDGE, 2003

  In development representations of the South, sexuality is either ignored, or discussed only in relation to disease and violence, or reproductive decision making based on material interests.
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  With the People, For the People: Gonoshasthaya Kendra Bangladesh (The People's Health Centre)

  One World Action, 2003

  At a time when the benefits of development policies often only reach small, urban elites, how can development organisations better help with the problems faced by excluded and vulnerable populations such as women and children? This report outlines the work of Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), or The People's Health Centre, in Bangladesh.
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  Conflict, Post-conflict, and HIV/AIDS - the Gender Connections: Women, War and HIV/AIDS: West Africa and the Great Lakes

  World Bank, 2001

  What are the connections between conflict, HIV/AIDS and gender? This project conducted in Rwanda and Sierra Leone shows how gender inequalities among refugees and internally displaced populations significantly increase vulnerability to HIV infection. The project used a community-based approach which incorportate an outreach programme by AIDS educators taken from the refugee population.

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