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    Food and nutrition security, health and gender equality: partnerships for climate-resilient sustainable development

    Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization, 2012
    This policy brief provides key recommendations with a view to RIO+20 and the post 2015 MDG agenda. It argues that food and nutrition security, climate change, health, gender equality and environmental degradation are closely interlinked, requiring integrated strategies. Increasing women's engagement, empowerment and leadership can help counter these challenges.
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    Powerful synergies: gender equality, economic development and environmental sustainability

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    This collection of contributions by gender and sustainable development experts explores the interconnections between gender equality and sustainable development across a range of sectors and issues such as energy, health, education, food security, climate change, human rights, consumption and production patterns, and urbanisation.
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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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    UNFPA Philippines

    United Nations Population Fund, 2012
    Every day, around eleven women in the Philippines die during pregnancy and childbirth, and for every maternal death at least 20 other women suffer serious complications, some of which are life-long.
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    Forsaken lives: the harmful impact of the Philippine criminal abortion ban

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2010
    What is the situation with unsafe abortion and women’s reproductive health and rights in the Philippines? This report by the Center for Reproductive Rights addresses the human rights violations resulting from the imposition of the Philippines’ criminal prohibition of abortion, particularly focusing on the experiences of women who have undergone unsafe abortions.
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    Website: Women for Positive Action

    Women for Positive Action, 2012
    Are you looking for a global initiative that responds to the specific concerns of women living and working with HIV?
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    Evidence on sexual rights in relation to reproductive and maternal health: input into DFID’s Reproductive and Maternal Health Strategy

    BRIDGE, 2010
    The denial of sexual rights can negatively impact reproductive and maternal health (RMH). This paper provides input into DFID’s Reproductive and Maternal Health Strategy, focusing on areas and groups it under-emphasises. Issues for men and women in general are considered, along with groups – namely lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are stigmatised due to their sexuality.
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    Poverty and sexuality: what are the connections?

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2010
    Although the interconnections between sexuality and poverty are under-studied, there is an emerging literature by researchers, activists and organisations, which has been drawn together in this Sida publication. It examines the relationship between these two themes – providing an overview of each separately, and discussing their linkages.
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    EROTICS: Sex, rights and the internet - an exploratory research study

    Association for Progressive Communications, 2011
    How may emerging debates and the growing practice of online content regulation either impede or facilitate the different ways women use the internet and the impact on their sexual expression, sexualities and sexual health practices, and the assertion of their sexual rights? This is the primary research question of this Exploratory Research on Sexuality and the Internet (EROTICS) study.
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    Community video for social change: a toolkit

    American Refugee Committee International, 2012
    Are you seeking in-depth information on participatory communication and community-based social change? This is comprehensive toolkit for planning and implementing participatory video activities in conflict-affected settings – focusing on gender-based violence prevention and response, harmful practices, as well as HIV/AIDS and related health issues.

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