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    Strategic Impact Inquiry on Women's Empowerment: Report of Year 1

    CARE International, 2005
    This report presents the findings from the first year of CARE's Strategic Impact Inquiry into Women's Empowerment. One striking result of the inquiry was the general lack of attention within CARE to defining what is meant by women's empowerment.
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    A Menu of Options for Intra-Household Poverty Assessment

    2006
    Most measures of household poverty, based on income and consumption, assume that all resources that enter the household are shared equally by household members. Yet, in reality, some members may be relatively more privileged than others, commanding more income and accessing greater consumption opportunities. Often it is women, children and the elderly who are most disproportionately affected.
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    Press Conference on the Preliminary Results: Domestic Violence Survey - 2005

    Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Gaza and West Bank, 2006
    How vulnerable are women in the Palestinian Territories to violence in the home? In this press release and set of statistical tables, preliminary findings of a 2005 domestic violence survey show that 23.3 percent of ever married women are exposed to physical violence from their husbands. 61.7 percent report psychological abuse, while 10.5 percent report sexual violence.
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    UN CEDAW Issues Concluding Observations on Israel, Emphasising 14 Areas of Concern Regarding Israeli Violations of Rights of Palestinian Women

    Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, 2005
    In July 2005, members of the Working Group on the Status of Palestinian Citizens of Israel and delegates of Non-Governmental Organisations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), submitted data and reports on the situation of Palestinian women living in Israel to the United Nations Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
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    Public Policy and Social Reproduction: Gendering Social Capital

    Status of Women Canada, 2006
    According to this report, the concept of "social capital" being used in Canada at present is gender-blind. Social capital tends to be understood primarily as networks that are used for 'getting ahead' in life such as political parties, private clubs or organisations for groups of professionals. These formal networks, however, favour men because men tend to have more money and time.
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    Girls in Canada 2005

    2005
    What is the situation of girls in Canada? This study focuses on girls from the time of birth up to the age of 18. It identifies their state of well/ill-being compared to boys, the major challenges girls in Canada face, and makes recommendations for programming. In early childhood, girls start off better than boys.
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    Gender Equality and Child Labour: A Participatory Tool for Facilitators

    International Labour Organization, 2004
    Conventional gender roles place various constraints and opportunities on what women and men are expected to be and do, and this is reflected in the types of child labour that boys and girls take part in.
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    Effect of a Participatory Intervention with Women's Groups on Birth Outcomes in Nepal: Cluster-Randomised Trial

    The Lancet, 2004
    How can high rates of infant mortality in developing countries be more effectively tackled? In Kathmandu, Nepal, a team from Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA) undertook a low-cost, community-based participatory intervention with women's groups to test the impact of peer education on birth outcomes in an economically poor rural population.
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    The Vanishing Victim: Criminal Law and Gender in Jordan

    Blackwell Synergy, 2007
    Criminal codes in Jordan are markedly gendered. This article analyses how the penalties for rape, domestic violence and honour killings reflect local norms of appropriate gender roles and society's desire to rectify the social standing and ?honour? of a raped woman and her family, rather than to punish the crime.
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    The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Violence Against the Girl Child - Report of the UN Secretary-General

    2006
    Discrimination and violence against the girl child persist in all parts of the world. This report has been prepared in accordance with the programme of work of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for 2007-2009, which identified ?The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child? as the priority theme for the Commission's fifty-first session.

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