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    Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis

    United Nations Population Fund, 2004
    Rising rates of HIV infection among women are a major cause for concern. Not only are girls and women highly susceptible to HIV infection - both biologically and as a result of gender inequality and discrimination - they are also less able to access treatment than men.
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    Visibility, Voices and Visions: a Call for Action from HIV Positive Women to Policy-makers

    2004
    Drawing on evidence from ICW research, training and workshops, this document highlights the challenges that HIV positive women face on receiving a positive HIV diagnosis. These include fear about the consequences of disclosure; coping with discrimination at work; constraints on access to health services; and having to decide whether or not to have children.
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    HIV Positive Young Women, ICW Vision Paper 1

    2004
    A group of young HIV positive women from Eastern and Southern Africa met in 2004 to develop a common advocacy agenda. One of their major concerns was that young women living with HIV and AIDS are unable to access their sexual and reproductive rights, such as the right to have children, the right to safe abortion, and the right not to be forced into termination of pregnancy or sterilisation.
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    Gender and climate change research workshop: what do we know? what do we need to find out?

    Genanet, 2005
    In 2005, 23 participants gathered to discuss gender and climate change related research, and its role and use in women's / gender related advocacy in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. Three questions were addressed: What do we need to know about gender and climate change to influence UNFCCC negotiations?
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    Improving women's lives: World Bank actions since Beijing

    World Bank, 2006
    The World Bank is committed to helping member countries fulfil the Beijing Platform for Action and recognises that gender equality is critical to development and poverty reduction. The World Bank's emphasis on gender increased after the 1995 Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women.
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    Delivering as one: report of the Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel

    United Nations General Assembly, 2006
    In February 2006, the former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, established a High-Level Panel consisting of fifteen members to examine how to strengthen the UN system in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment.
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    Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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    Sex Work Toolkit

    World Health Organization, 2004
    In many parts of the world, sex workers have been among the groups most vulnerable to and most affected by HIV since the beginning of the AIDS pandemic. This online toolkit is aimed at helping sex workers to protect themselves and their clients from infection by HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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    How to Guide: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Programme in Liberia

    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2001
    How can sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) be tackled in a refugee setting? This guide advocates for a multisectoral approach which brings together a range of organisations working in the medical, legal, and security sectors, with the refugee community, to tackle SGBV in participatory 'survivor' centred ways.
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    Improving Access to Safe Abortion: Guidance on Making High Quality Services Available

    IPAS, 2005
    This CD-ROM aims to enhance public discussion of the issues around unsafe abortion and encourage the provision of safe abortion services to the extent allowed by national law. The package includes advocacy tools in English, Spanish, and Portuguese which can be used with a range of audiences - policy-makers, health care providers, the media, and individuals.

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