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    Making Abortion Safe, Legal And Accessible: A Toolkit For Action

    Center for Reproductive Rights, 2008
    Despite wide international legal support for a woman's right to access safe and legal abortion, the procedure still remains unsafe and out of reach for many women around the globe.
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    Gender inequality and maternal and child nutrition in Northern Nigeria

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    This summary provides an overview of how gender inequality impacts maternal and child nutrition in Northern Nigeria.
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    Report on Nigeria’s compliance with its human rights obligations in the area of women’s reproductive and sexual health

    Center for Reproductive Rights, 2013
    This stakeholder report to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group of the UN Human Rights Council was submitted for its 17th session (2013) by two non-governmental organisations (NGOs): the US-based Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), based in Nigeria.
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    Prevalence and correlates of violence against female sex workers in Abuja, Nigeria

    African Journals Online - AJOL, 2014
    Few studies provide detailed descriptions of the vulnerabilities of African female sex workers (FSWs) to violence. This study documents the prevalence and types of violence experiences by FSWs in brothels in Abuja, Nigeria, as well as identifying the risk factors of different types of violence against women (VAW) and perpetrators.
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    Prevention of sexual assault in Nigeria

    University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 2013
    This medical journal article is by Dr. Uwom O. Eze, Consultant in Pathology and Forensic Medicine at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria. Dr. Eze calls for an urgent paradigm shift: an all-inclusive fight against sexual assault that is devoid of sexist bias, and also recognise differences based on culture, sexuality, ability, age and gender. Dr.
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    Generational Perspectives of Unprotected Sex and Sustainable Behavior Change in Nigeria

    2013
    Despite the deadly HIV/AIDS pandemic being widely well known, and over two decades of safe-sex communication and condom social marketing in Nigeria, unmarried people continue to engage in unprotected sex. Understanding their perspectives of unprotected sex is imperative for sustainable policy and intervention design.
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    Impact of the global economic crisis on women, girls and gender equality

    Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2012
    The global economic crisis that began in 2008 has been the most significant economic slowdown since the Great Depression, with consequences that have ricocheted throughout the world. The crisis has impacted men and women differently, yet the policy responses and effects of austerity measures on women and girls are rarely considered.
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    Strengthening Community and Health Systems for Quality PMTCT: Applications in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Ethiopia

    Pathfinder International, 2013
    Globally, there are an estimated 34 million people living with HIV, the vast majority of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. There are increasing efforts to reverse the trend, with emphasis placed on creating a generation in which no children are born infected with the disease.
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    Property and inheritance rights key to empowering women living with HIV, say grass-roots groups

    UN Women, 2013
    It can no longer be disputed that women and girls are the most affected by the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, nor that they are often unable to protect themselves from HIV due to a range of social and economic inequalities. Tackling discrimination and HIV-related human rights violations against women is central to an effective HIV response.
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    Female genital mutilation in the Sultanate of Oman

    Stop FGM Middle East, 2014
    While the Sultanate of Oman has seen great improvement concerning gender equality in the past few decades, the tradition of female circumcision persists. The government has recognised the existence of the problem, and the need to eliminate it, however the only measure taken in this regard was banning the practice in state hospitals.

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