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    Marriage and childbirth as factors in school exit: an analysis of DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa

    Population Council, USA, 2006
    How significant are marriage and childbirth as determinants of school-leaving in sub-Saharan Africa? What other common underlying factors contribute to premature school-leaving and early marriage and childbearing? This research shows that the risk of leaving school during adolescence for reasons other than childbirth or marriage far exceed the risks associated with these two events.
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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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    Information Leaflets for People with Sexual Problems

    Outsiders, 2006
    This series of 15 short leaflets provides clear information and practical advice for people with disabilities in the UK.
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    Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism and Sexual Diversity

    Pluto Press, 2005
    Is it possible to move beyond the male-female gender binary system?' This book begins with this question.
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    The girls' stipend program in Bangladesh

    Journal of Education for International Development, 2006
    The Female Stipend Programme (FSP) created in 1982 in Bangladesh has dramatically raised the enrolment and retention of girls in secondary schools to parity with boys (at 47%). However, it has achieved less success in its other objectives: of delaying marriage, increasing contraceptive use and in reducing fertility rates.
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    Working with the media on gender and education: a guide for training and planning

    Oxfam, 2006
    How can education and gender campaigners, and organisations and coalitions, work more effectively with the media to promote gender-equitable education? This guide was developed following two workshops which were held in Nairobi, Kenya and Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2005 and 2006. Gender equality issues in education are explored and practical advice on working with the media is given.
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    Health rights of women assessment instrument

    Humanist Committee on Human Rights, 2006
    The Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (HeRWAI) is a practical tool for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that want to turn human rights into reality. It helps them to hold governments to account for the implementation of women's health rights. The instrument consists of a rights-based analysis of the influence of a policy on women's health rights using six steps:
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    Chilean Women. Trends in the Last Decade (1992-2002 Census)

    Servicio Nacional de la Mujer, 2004
    This study uses the information and data from the 2002 National Census to analyse how women and men interact in Chile in different domains. The aim is to unpack some aspects of social reality to identify the structural gender inequalities that affect all people, but especially women, and to use the findings to inform public policy in order to enable real change in gender relations.
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    Educating girls in Bangladesh: watering a neighbour's tree?

    Oxfam, 2005
    An old Bengali saying observes: 'caring for a daughter is like watering a neighbour's tree'. It reflects a view that it is a waste of resources to invest in a daughter who will be 'lost' to another family through marriage. This argument has previously been used to justify girls' exclusion from school in Bangladesh.
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    Pregnancy-related school dropout and prior school performance in South Africa

    Population Council, USA, 2006
    Using data collected in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in 2001, this paper examines the factors associated with schoolgirl pregnancy, as well as the likelihood of school dropout and subsequent re-enrolment among pregnant schoolgirls.

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