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  Decision of the Prime Minister of the Government on the Approval of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam by 2010

  Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 2002

  This is the official approval by the Prime Minister of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women. This document reiterates the overall and specific objectives of the strategy and lays out the main measure for implementation.
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  Plan of Action for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women by 2005

  National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam, 2002

  The National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam (NCFAW) developed this Plan of Action to guide implementation of the first five years of the ?National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam by 2010?. It follows the format of the strategy - with coverage of the overall objective and its five specific objectives, including implementation arrangements.
• Document

  Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers

  Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003

  For some years, awareness about the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women in situations of war and armed conflict has been growing. As a result, humanitarian aid programmes are paying more and more attention to the provision of SRH services in the field, but a more holistic and integrated approach to SRH is often still lacking.
• Document

  Dreams & desires: sexual and reproductive health experiences of HIV positive women

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004

  HIV positive women want sex, love and children just as much as anyone else. This is one clear message from these personal accounts by 13 positive women from Bolivia, Nepal, Kenya, Ukraine, Nigeria, Thailand, Swaziland, England, Honduras, South Africa, Belarus, Iran, and Sudan.
• Document

  Women and HIV/AIDS: Select Facts

  2004

  Women are increasingly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Nearly 50 percent of the 38 million people living with HIV/AIDS are female, up from 41 percent in 1997. Young women are disproportionately at risk. In the United States girls account for 57 percent of new HIV infections among teenagers.
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  NGOs as Partners on the Way to Accelerate the Implementation of the Platform for Action: Report of the NGO Forum

  2004

  In December 2004 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) held a ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). In preparation for this meeting the NGO Working Group on Women for the UNECE region organised an NGO Forum.
• Document

  Integrating a Gender Perspective into the Delivery of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

  2004

  The Programa de Coordinaci¢n en Salud Integral (PROCOSI), a network of NGOs working for health and development in Bolivia, launched a Gender Programme in 2000 with funding from the USAID Mission in Bolivia. The aim was to integrate a gender perspective into NGOs delivering reproductive and sexual health services.
• Document

  Social and Cultural Factors which Facilitate the Transmission of HIV in Bolivia

  BRIDGE, 2002

  If we are going to attack the causes and not just the effects of HIV/AIDS we need to look at the cultural and social aspects, as well as the medical. Cultural values and social norms which facilitate transmission in Bolivia include taboos around talking about sexuality, which is reinforced by religious associations of sex with sin and of women as virginal.
• Document

  Women's Reproductive Rights in Bolivia: A Shadow Report

  2001

  This is a shadow report written and compiled by the "Oficina Juridica para la Mujer" or Women's Law Office of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The purpose of this report is to provide a complement or alternative to the official government report of Bolivia to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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  Implementing adolescent reproductive rights through the Convention on the Rights of the Child

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 1999

  One in five people in the world is an adolescent. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) encompasses the human rights of people aged 0-18, hence by definition includes adolescents. Yet there remains a significant gap between provisions prescribed in the CRC and the reality of adolescents' reproductive health and lives.

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