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    Bringing Rights to Bear: An Advocate’s Guide to the Work of the UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive and Sexual Rights

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2003
    Six key human rights treaties provide the legal foundation for the international community's commitment to human rights: the Convention on Torture; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); the Convention against Racial Discrimination; the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Covenant; the Children's Rights Convention; and the Civil and Political Right
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    Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina

    Human Rights Watch, 2010
    Does it seem odd that seven years after Argentina’s first national reproductive health programme was implemented, the indicators on maternal health, unwanted pregnancies and abortion have hardly budged?
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    Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Nicaragua

    Tierra Viva, 2004
    In Nicaragua women are excluded from exercising their rights and citizenship due to a worsening situation of violence and sexual exploitation, which includes forced maternity, unsafe abortion, adolescent pregnancies, maternal mortality, an increase in sexually transmitted diseases including HIV-AIDS, and discrimination and violence against lesbians.
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    Terminating Pregnancy: Deciding between Life and Life

    Envío, 2008
    In Latin America abortion and sexuality are controversial topics and the official position of the Catholic Church is very conservative. The dissemination of Christian feminist thinking is strategic, because it questions the precepts of the Catholic Church as an institution and contributes to the creation of alternatives.
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    Guide for Programmes and Projects on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Africa

    VITA Programme, Programme of Cooperation for Health care Development in Africa, Spanish International Cooperation Agency, 2005
    Despite the fact that women outlive men in almost every country, their health is generally poorer. Why? Gender inequality is largely to blame, which is clearly the case with regard to reproduction and sexuality.
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    What Women Want: Meeting the Global Demand for Medical Abortion

    Marie Stopes International, 2010
    Globally, an estimated 19 to 20 million unsafe abortions take place every year. Women around the world urgently need better access to safer methods for ending unplanned pregnancies. This short publication seeks to address the lack of documentation in relation to demand for and access to medical abortion, by highlighting best practice and lessons learnt.
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    An Exploratory Study of Complications from Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC): Improvement of the Quality of CAC Services in Nepal

    Population Health and Development Group, Nepal, 2008
    How safe are abortion care services in Nepal? How can abortion-related complications be reduced and monitored successfully? Nepal began providing comprehensive abortion care (CAC) services in 2004 after abortion became legal in 2002. Between 2004 and 2007, 176 CAC service sites - government, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and private service centres - were established in the country.
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    Men Matter: Scaling up Approaches to Promote Constructive Men's Engagement in Reproductive Health and Gender Equity

    Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2008
    In many countries, men are the primary decision makers regarding sexual activity, childbearing, and contraceptive use.
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    Resource Pack on Gender and HIV/AIDS

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2006
    This Resource Pack aims to strengthen the impact of national HIV and AIDS programmes by tackling a key factor fuelling the epidemic: gender inequality. It contains an operational guide which provides checklists to help development practitioners to integrate gender and rights into their HIV and AIDS policies and programmes.
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    Men, Health and Gender Equality: A Report on the National Men's Imbizo

    BRIDGE, 2007
    Gender inequalities that privilege men damage women's health, at the same time as the norms associated with masculinity harm men's health. Often being a man is associated with a sense of invulnerability and self-reliance, leading to a reluctance to seek health advice and health care.

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