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  Leaving Two Thirds Out of Development: Female Headed Households and Common Property Resources in the Highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia

  2006

  Periodic drought, unsustainable livestock populations, land tenure insecurities, land degradation, a prolonged and intense civil war and fragmentation of farms have had severe impacts on the population of the Ethiopian highlands. Increasingly young men have found it harder to obtain land to establish their own farms and homesteads.
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  Children's Property and Inheritance Rights and Their Livelihoods: The Context of HIV and AIDS in Southern and East Africa

  2006

  There are 34 million orphans in Africa, of which 11 million are AIDS orphans (nearly 80 per cent of the world's total). Extended family support systems, which once absorbed and assumed care for orphans, have become weaker in recent years, as families have become increasingly urbanised, industrialised and nuclear.
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  Child labour in the Latin America and Caribbean Region: a gender based analysis

  Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) Programme, 2006

  What are the gender differences in labour performed by children in Latin America and the Caribbean? This study analyses how gender stereotypes and cultural norms affect household decisions concerning children's time-use, and the implications this has for policy. It covers girls and boys both at work in paid economic activity and performing household chores in their own homes.
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  Expanding Abused Women's Access to Housing

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006

  What housing is available to South African women who flee their homes to escape domestic violence and have to find their own accommodation? This report provides an overview of the different government-provided shelter options available to women who have to leave their homes.
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  HIV Positive Women, Poverty and Gender Inequality, ICW vision paper 3

  2004

  Gender inequality and poverty not only increase the risk of HIV but also leave women more vulnerable than men to its impact. An HIV positive diagnosis compounds the problems women face in finding and keeping work. Many women, including HIV positive women, work in the informal sector.
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  Domestic Violence in South Africa: Reflections on Strategy and Practice

  2005

  One study surveying 1306 women in three South African provinces found that 27 percent of women in the Eastern Cape, 28 percent of women in Mpumalanga and 19 percent of women in the Northern Province had been physically abused in their lifetimes by a current or ex-partner. The same study also found high prevalence of emotional and economic abuse.
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  "Man Hunt Intimacy: Man Clean Bathroom": Women, Sexual Pleasure, Gender Violence and HIV

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006

  Men's contribution - or lack of it - to household tasks and expenditure and the daily burden of running a home is closely linked to sexual dissatisfaction, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. Men seek comfort by having sex with other women, and their wives also turn to other men for sex in order to buy school clothes for their children or food for the daily meal.
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  "Oh! This One is Infected!" Women, HIV and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region, Expert meeting on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Asia-Pacific, Bankok, 23-24 March 2004

  2004

  Women under 20 years old are up to ten times more vulnerable to HIV infection than men. They are also significantly more likely to experience AIDS-related discrimination after a positive diagnosis. Women are often blamed for bringing HIV into the family and may be subjected to violence by their spouse or in-laws.
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  Marriage and childbirth as factors in school exit: an analysis of DHS data from sub-Saharan Africa

  Population Council, USA, 2006

  How significant are marriage and childbirth as determinants of school-leaving in sub-Saharan Africa? What other common underlying factors contribute to premature school-leaving and early marriage and childbearing? This research shows that the risk of leaving school during adolescence for reasons other than childbirth or marriage far exceed the risks associated with these two events.
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  State of the World's children 2007: women and children: the double dividend of gender equality

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2006

  'The State of the World's Children 2007' examines the discrimination and disempowerment that women face throughout their lives - and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls.

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