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  CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

  United Nations, 2002

  Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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  How to Make the Law Work? Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence Policies in Latin America

  2003

  How can domestic violence be reduced in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? This synthesis research paper demonstrates that to make domestic violence policy work there needs to be sufficient budgetary allocations to enable the laws enacted in these countries to translate into action.
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  Alternative Report of Cladem Peru on the Implementation in Peru of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  2002

  This shadow report, led by The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights -Peru (CLADEM-Peru), contributes to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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  CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of State Parties: Peru

  United Nations, 2001

  Peru's fifth submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) outlines the status of women in Peru. The government has faced difficulties changing attitudes that discriminate against women.
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  Cause for Great Concern: The Status of Reproductive Health in Peru

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2003

  Despite important advances in the last 40 years, are women's sexual and reproductive health rights being threatened? This newsletter, written by the Director of the San Mart¡n de Porres University Medical Clinic in Lima, Peru, highlights the ways women's sexual and reproductive rights are being undermined by the Peruvian government of Alejandro Toledo, who came to power in 2001.
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  Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health: a Subject as much for Men as for Women

  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  How are men involved in the sexual and reproductive health of women? This working paper of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) is an overview of research on the extent of men's participation in women's health.
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  Kidnapping Brides in Kyrgyzstan: Prescriptive Human Rights Measures

  Human Rights Tribune, 2000

  Bride kidnapping has been revived as an authentic Kyrgyz tradition, resulting in the large-scale violation of women's rights in the name of preserving Kyrgyz 'culture'. This practice was outlawed during Soviet rule and is technically still illegal under the Kyrgyz's Criminal Code.
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  Briefing Notes on: Gender Perspectives on Disarmament

  Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, 2001

  This collection of briefing notes was launched by the United Nations (UN) Department for Disarmament Affairs (DDA), in collaboration with the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women (OSAGI). The notes are part of a broader project designed to make disarmament more effective.
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  Gender and the Peacekeeping Military: A View from Bosnian Women's Organisations

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  What are the consequences for the work of women's NGOs in regions that host armed international peacekeepers? This chapter draws out observations and potential policy lessons from a study conducted with eight women's organisations located in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Sprska.
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  BRIDGE Report 33: Gender, Emergencies and Humanitarian Assistance

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 1995

  How can emergency relief and humanitarian assistance be more gender-sensitive? This report argues that emergency and humanitarian assistance tends to be gender-blind, responding to women's needs solely as victims and mothers, without accounting for changes in gender relations that arise out of crises.

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