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  Female genital cutting

  Tostan, 2014

  Female genital cutting (FGC) is a deeply-rooted social norm enforced by community expectations around marriageability. Girls who are not cut are often ostracised by their communities. Tostan is an African-based organisation empowering rural communities to achieve sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights.
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  For her it's the big issue: putting women at the centre of water supply, sanitation and hygiene.

  Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, 2006

  Lack of basic sanitation and safe water is a major issue for women and girls who live in poor and overcrowded areas.
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  ENERGIA e-learning in gender and energy

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2014

  Development projects, programmes and policies that explicitly address gender and energy issues result in better outcomes in terms of the sustainability of energy services as well as human development. The International Network on Gender and Sustainable Energy (ENERGIA) has created this online course to introduce these concepts.
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  A Quick Guide to Gender Mainstreaming in Education: A Reference Manual for Governments and Other Stakeholders

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999

  Guidelines for the mainstreaming of gender in education are provided in this manual, intended primarily for use by governments in policy formulation, planning and implementation. It defines the role of gender mainstreaming as the 'consistent use of a gender perspective at all stages of the development and implementation of policy, plans, programmes and projects'.
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  Guidelines for a Gender Analysis: Human Rights with a Gender Perspective, Implementing the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  United Nations [UN] Commission on the Status of Women ., 2000

  Despite the failure of the Unite States (US) to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the City and County of San Francisco introduced a regulation to implement CEDAW at the local level. As part of the implementation, the City department must undertake a gender analysis of its budget allocations, service delivery, and employment practices.
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  Reducing Poverty and Social Exclusion: Czech Republic

  United Nations Development Programme, 2004

  To what extent has the Czech Republic achieved the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) particularly those that relate to gender issues? At first glance, the Czech Republic appears to have fulfilled the majority of the goals.
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  Tunaweza (kiswahili: we can do it!): Measuring the Impact of Sport on Girls? Life Skills

  BRIDGE, 2008

  How can we be sure that sport-in-development is a useful tool for improving life skills among girls and young women? This paper presents a method for measuring changes in life skills developed by Moving the Goalposts (MTG), a sport-in-development program in Kilifi, Kenya which uses football to improve the life skills of participants.
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  Iraq: The Status of Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq's De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International Legal Standards

  Iraq Legal Development Project, 2005

  Although women in Iraq have a 25 percent quota in political representation, they still face considerable obstacles in their quest to secure their human rights. This paper assesses the degree to which Iraqi women in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto) enjoy the protection of their rights as guaranteed under international agreements.
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  Any Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?

  2005

  Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.
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  Proposed Indicators to measure the targets set by the international Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

  United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002

  This document is part of a proposal being developed to generate a system of indicators to measure progress towards meeting the objectives of the Action Plan of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Latin America and the Caribbean. A regional system of indicators is proposed to measure progress and identify inequalities among the various population groups.

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