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    Child Marriage in South Asia

    Center for Food Safety, 2013
    Child marriage is a human rights crisis occurring on an alarming scale in South Asia. South Asia accounts for almost half of all child marriages that occur globally. Child marriage does not constitute a single rights violation; rather, every instance of it triggers a continuum of violations that continues throughout a girl’s life.
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    Climate change, food security and trade linkages in South Asia

    2013
    This briefing paper examines the linkages between climate change, food security and trade in South Asia.
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    Armed conflicts in South Asia 2012 sixth annual conference

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    This paper summarizes the IPCS Sixth Annual Armed Conflicts in South Asia Conference held in New Delhi. The main conference agenda is a discussion of how to quell the expanding violence in South Asia as has been mapped by the IPCS extensively since 2008.
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    Sri Lanka and the peace makers: a story of Norway and India

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2011
    More than two years after Sri Lanka militarily overcame the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Norwegian government-led investigation into the collapse of the 2002 peace process has resulted in a comprehensive and revealing report.
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    China and its peripheries: Beijing and India-Sri Lanka relations

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    China has emerged as one of the important factors in India-Sri Lanka relations. The current essay highlights that China is one of the major players in Sri Lanka in many fields, yet the intensity of relations between Beijing and Colombo has picked up tremendously in the recent years.
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    Reserve Management in Asia: changing contours and challenges

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012
    Reserve management assumed centre stage in policymaking in Asia after the massive collateral damage caused during the 1997-98 East Asian financial crisis spreading all over the region.
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    Biofuels for Sustainable Rural Development and Empowerment of Women, Case Studies from Africa and Asia

    International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy, 2009
    Poor communities in developing countries mainly depend on traditional biomass such as charcoal, wood and dung as other energy systems are often not accessible to them. Energy scarcity affects mainly women as they are the ones responsible for biomass collection.
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    Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

    ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007
    In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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    The “We Can” Campaign in South Asia, 2004-2011. External evaluation report

    Oxfam, 2011
    This evaluation was commissioned by Oxfam GB to measure the impact of the We Can campaign, which ran from 2004-2010 in six countries across south Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). The overall goal of the We Can programme was to reduce the social acceptance of violence against women across the six countries. There were four objectives:
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    The “We Can” Campaign in South Asia, 2004-2011. External evaluation report

    Oxfam, 2011
    This evaluation was commissioned by Oxfam GB to measure the impact of the We Can campaign, which ran from 2004-2010 in six countries across south Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). The overall goal of the We Can programme was to reduce the social acceptance of violence against women across the six countries. There were four objectives:

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