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Gender influences in child survival, health and nutrition: a narrative review
United Nations Children's Fund, 2011There is increasing recognition in the field of international health and nutrition that gender inequities and dynamics are a major social determinant of health and nutrition outcomes. However, reviews of evidence to date have tended to concentrate on comparisons of health and nutrition outcomes, healthcare utilisation or coverage of services/programmes between boys and girls or women and men.DocumentBriefing Paper: The Right to Contraceptive Information and Services for Women and Adolescents
Center for Reproductive Rights, 2010This briefing paper examines the right to access contraceptive information and services for women and adolescents.DocumentThe Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities in Africa: Does the protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa offer any hope?
Center for Women Policy Studies, 2011This paper is part of the Barbara Faye Waxman Fiduccia Papers on women and girls with disabilities. It considers how the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (or the African Women’s Protocol) addresses and protects the rights of disabled women.DocumentRwanda:"Marked for Death", rape survivors living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda (in English, French and Spanish)
Amnesty International, 2004In April 1994, Rwanda suffered one hundred days of violence, targeted at the Tutsi and moderate Hutu population. Sexual violence against women and girls constituted a central part of the genocidal strategy.DocumentUniversal Periodic Review (UPR) Report on Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Uzbekistan
Labrys, 2008The legal, political and social climate in Uzbekistan does not allow for efficient work of non-governmental organisations in the area of sexual and reproductive rights. Fear of repression prevents activists from working on issues ranging from the rights of people living with HIV to gender education.DocumentSiyanda Update: Sharing Care Responsibilities Equitably, including in the context of HIV/AIDS - Issue No. 74, March 2009
BRIDGE, 2009DocumentGender Trends in Transitional Economies in Central, Eastern Europe and Newly Independent States
International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2008Men and women in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States have high life expectancy and high literacy rates. But when it comes to economic wellbeing, the situation is more troubling, especially for women. Unemployment rates among women are especially high in the Republic of Moldova and in Armenia.Pages