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    Combined Initial, Second and Third CEDAW Periodic Reports: Cambodia

    2004
    What steps has Cambodia's government taken to achieve gender equality since ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in October 2002? In this first report to the CEDAW Committee, the government outlines progress in a range of areas.
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    Gender Analysis and Assessment: Volume 1 Gender Analysis

    2006
    Cambodia is slowly recovering from decades of violence and unrest. One positive outcome of this social upheaval is that oppressive gender roles and responsibilities are being challenged. Alongside this process are efforts to improve the status of women and promote their human rights.
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    The United Nations: A Framework for Support of Gender in Cambodia

    2006
    The United Nations (UN) is committed to addressing gender concerns in Cambodia as a priority in its implementation of the UN Development Assistance Framework 2006-2010. The UN recognises that women are underrepresented politically in Cambodia and have a lower economic, social and cultural status to men.
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    The Progress Report on Implementation of Beijing Platform for Action on Women's Issues 1995-2005

    Royal Government of Cambodia, 2004
    Since 1995, when it signed up to the Beijing Platform for Action, the Royal Government of Cambodia has incorporated gender strategies into national plans and policies.
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    Status report 2006: progress towards the goals for growth, social well-being and governance in Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2006
    This report is a key output of Tanzania's National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA) for the period 2005-2010. It provides a consolidated national view of the strategy's progress based on MKUKUTA's three major clusters of desired outcomes for poverty reduction: growth, social well-being, and governance.
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    From Microfinance to Macro Change: Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty

    Microcredit Summit Campaign, 2006
    This advocacy booklet calls for integration of reproductive health education with microfinance initiatives (MFIs) in developing countries. It presents individual stories, case studies and findings to show the impact that this combination can have on reducing poverty and improving individual lives, particularly of women who would otherwise not have income-generating opportunities.
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    BRIDGE Occasional paper: Gender and Sex - a sample of definitions

    BRIDGE, 2006
    There has been much debate regarding the meanings of 'gender' and 'sex'. Gender is most commonly used as a contrasting term to sex, as that which is socially or culturally constructed as opposed to that which is biologically given.
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    Quantitative research instrument to measure school-related gender-based violence

    DevTech Systems, 2006
    The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - funded Safe Schools Programme (Safe Schools) is working in Malawi and Ghana to create safe environments for all girls and boys. By promoting gender-equitable relationships and reducing School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV), Safe Schools also aims to improve educational outcomes and reduce negative health outcomes.
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    Palestinian women: is there a unitary conception of rights?

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006
    How are women's rights understood by ?ordinary? Palestinian women? This paper, based on fieldwork conducted in two villages in the Ramallah district, reports on ?ordinary? Palestinian women's views on what women's rights are and how they perceive their own rights situation. The term ?ordinary? in this respect refers to rural women outside of political organisations, whether secular or religious.
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    Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of Gender-Based Violence at Schools

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
    To what extent do adolescent girls in South Africa experience gender-based violence in their heterosexual relationships at school? What is being done to support victims and change attitudes towards violence?

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