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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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    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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    Women, Sexuality and Social Change in the Middle East and the Maghreb

    2002
    What makes women experience sexuality in particular ways, and how can this be challenged when it contributes to inequality and abuse of human rights?
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    Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies

    Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 2000
    Controlling the sexuality of women continues to be one of the most powerful tools of patriarchy in most societies. The essays in this volume show that the sexual oppression of Muslim women is not the result of an Islamic vision of sexuality, but a combination of political, social and economic inequalities practiced through the ages.
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    Circumcision with Words: Fighting FGM in Kenya

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2001
    In 1993, due to concern about her own daughter, Annicetta Kiriga, from the village of Tharaka, just outside of Nairobi became involved in Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO), an organisation which researched and took action on FGM in Kenya.

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