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  Beyond access: transforming policy and practice for gender equality in education

  Oxfam, 2005

  This book focuses on transforming policy and practice to promote equitable processes in education, in response to the need for equality, quality, and justice for all.
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  A better future for rural girls: manager's briefing kit

  Family Care International, 2005

  This briefing kit presents the results and recommendations of participatory research conducted with rural girls, boys, their families and local leaders in three rural communities: Soula, Burkina Faso, M’Biénina, Mali, and Méouane, Senegal, to identify the challenges that rural girls face and come up with strategies to address their many needs.
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  Exploring and understanding gender in education: a qualitative research manual for education practitioners and gender focal points

  UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2005

  This manual discusses ways to conduct qualitative research in order to promote gender equality in the classroom, the school, and, by extension, in the wider educational system. It provides the reader with the knowledge and tools to understand gender disparities in education, their causes, and the ways they can be overcome.
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  60 million girls

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  Universal right to education? Perhaps in theory, but not in reality. This booklet shows that school fees are the single largest global barrier to girl's education, preventing 60 million from participating in education.
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  Roars and whispers: gender and poverty: promises vs. action

  Social Watch, 2005

  This annual Social Watch report monitors the progress of the MDGs and poverty reduction using a gendered approach. Divided into three areas it covers: themed discussions, monitoring progress, and national reports from over 50 countries.The study shows that the international community has largely failed to live up to the commitments it adopted in 2000.
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  "Don’t forget us": the education and gender-based violence protection needs of adolescent girls from Darfur in Chad

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2005

  This document examines the conditions in a number of refugee camps for people from Darfur in Chad, focusing on education needs and protection from gender-based violence for adolescent girls.The findings include: all refugee camps had education programmes.
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  Exploring the linkages between children’s independent migration and education: evidence from Ghana

  Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2005

  This paper explores the linkages between children’s independent migration and education, both formal and non-formal, who have moved from rural, farming households in northern Ghana to rural and urban households in central and southern Ghana.
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  Progress for children: a report card on gender parity and primary education

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This report card, which is part of a series in which UNICEF monitors progress for children in the lead-up to 2015, measures the world’s advances towards Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3, which pursue universal primary education and gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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  Human rights for women and children in Pakistan

  Centre of Strategic Planning for Development, 2005

  This first international publication of the "NGO Net for women and children rights" in Pakistan highlights the human rights situation of women and children in Pakistan. The report examines women's subjection to domestic and communal violence, low literacy and education rates for women, abuse and oversight of women in the workforce, and women's political participation.
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  Gender differences in academic performance in a large public university in Turkey

  Economic Research Center, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2004

  The paper attempts to determine whether there are significant gender differences in academic performance among undergraduate students at the Middle East Technical University (METU), which is a large public university in Turkey, and if so the factors that give rise to these differences.

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