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    Gender issues in basic education and national development in Nigeria

    2013
    This paper examines factors inhibiting gender equality in the Nigerian education sector, focusing on access to education as well as the learning process. Over the years, education in Nigeria has been primarily oriented toward closing the enrolment gap between girls and boys, while insufficient attention has been paid to retention and achievement.
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    Safe spaces prototyping: a human-centered design approach

    2014
    Emerging from a human-centered project involving 32 girl co-designers in Nigeria, this guidebook for prototyping the establishment of safe spaces for women and girls began by listening to the girls and some of the people in their lives.
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    Maimuna’s story, Nigeria

    2013
    In this article, Girl Child Concerns, an arm of the organisation, Girls Not Brides, shares this heart-warming testimonial of a young Nigerian girl, Maimuna.
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    Meaning-making of female genital cutting: children's perception and acquired knowledge of the ritual

    Dove Medical Press, 2013
    How do girls who have undergone female genital cutting understand the ritual? This study provides an analysis of the learning process and knowledge acquired in their meaning-making process. Eighteen participants were interviewed in qualitative indepth interviews. Women in Norway, mostly with Somali or Gambian backgrounds, were asked about their experiences of circumcision.
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    True story - female genital mutilation in Afar, Ethiopia

    2012
    The Afar region of North-east Ethiopia has one of the country’s highest rates of female genital mutilation (FGM) with around 74 percent of women and girls undergoing the practice. Since 2000, a joint programme to abandon FGM in the Afar region carried out by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has made significant progress.
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    The Guardian's EndFGM global media campaign

    The Guardian, UK, 2014
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    Handbook for cultural and religious leaders to end FGM

    African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2014
    What action can you take to address FGM? This handbook, produced by the African Women’s Development and Communications Network (FEMNET) is a behaviour change communication tool intended to expand the engagement of men in religious and cultural institutions to reach out to their communities to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) in Meru and Tharaka, Kenya.
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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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    Folleto informativo sobre los DESC de las mujeres (Español)

    International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2013
    A nivel mundial, las mujeres representan el 70% de los 1.200 millones de personas que viven en la pobreza.
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    Factsheet: The Philippines

    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, 2011
    This fact sheet by UN Women presents an overview of the situation women currently face in the Philippines, as well as the various ways in which UN Women has been supporting governments and civil society.

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