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    Social accountability of women in Pakistan: a case study of Sialkot

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2014
    Social Accountability as a mean of holding the state accountable to its citizens is not usually practiced in Pakistan. One of the prerequisites of Social Accountability is the right to information. The second major hindrance in the way of social accountability is the capacity and capability of citizens as how much they have empowered themselves to fight for their rights.
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    Causes and implications of induced abortion in Pakistan: a social and economic analysis

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2012
    Nearly 88% of pregnancies that were ended using an induced abortion were terminated due to unmet need for family planning or contraceptive failure. A majority of abortions were induced in hospitals, private as well as government, and folk methods accounted for a small fraction (1.5%) of all induced abortions. The rate of post‐abortion complications (PAC) is high at over 30 per cent.
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    Reproductive health knowledge and perceptions: a rapid assessment in four villages in Sindh

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2014
    Indus Resource Center (IRC) is scaling up its project “Reproductive Health through Girls’ Education”, now revised as “Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes for Girls through Life Skills Based Education”.
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    The criminal justice system and rape: an attitudinal study of the public sector response to rape in Karachi

    Collective for Social Science Research, Karachi, Pakistan, 2012
    In the year 2011, the Capital City Police reported that 103 cases of rape and sexual assault were reported across Karachi. However, in community meetings held across Karachi in all 18 towns of the city, participants knew of over 50 cases that had never been reported to the police. The exact frequency of cases is impossible to establish.
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    Violence and sexual abuse in schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2012
    This Helpdesk report includes statistics and reports on sexual abuse and violence in schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The first section of the report covers UN Security Council Reports including statistics on attacks. The next two sections cover incidents.
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    Rapid literature review: Gender in Fragile and Conflict-affected Situations

    Governance and Social Development Resource Centre, 2014
    This rapid review collates a large amount of literature published in 2013 and 2014 (up to April 2014) on the topic of gender in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS). It is not a systematic or exhaustive review, but does provide a comprehensive overview of the literature available.
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    Stoning in Iran, Somalia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan & Sudan

    2012
    The practice of stoning is closely associated with religious laws and observances. In ancient times, many communities used the practice to punish those who were deemed to have gone against God, challenged existing norms or threatened established social order.
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    Using Information and Communication Technology to spport women's entrepreneurship in Central and West Asia

    Asian Development Bank, 2014
    For micro and small enterprises, the use of ICT has led not only to better business performance but also better living conditions. It can also be particularly effective in loosening constraints on women in enterprise development. However, women lag behind men in access to technology and use ICT differently. Understanding why can help leverage ICT to help women’s businesses.
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    Invisible helpers - women's views on the contributions of working donkeys, horses and mules to their lives

    2014
    In 2011 there were an estimated 112 million working equine animals in the world, with 43 million donkeys, 11 million mules, and 58 million horses. The large majority of these animals live in developing countries and provide daily support to hundreds of millions of poor households by doing a wide range of work in both urban and rural areas.
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    Agriculture and nutrition in Pakistan: pathways and disconnects

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2013
    This paper analyses the pathways and disconnects between agriculture and nutrition in the context of Pakistan, using a framework developed by theTackling the Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India (TANDI) research programme.

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