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    A Global Outrage: Global and UK Statistics

    Amnesty International, 2005
    At least one out of every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime according to a study based on 50 surveys from around the world. Usually, the abuser is a member of her own family or someone known to her. In fact, the World Health Organization reports that up to 70 percent of female murder victims are killed by their male partners.
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    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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    Beijing Betrayed: Women Worldwide Report that Governments Have Failed to Turn the Platform into Action

    2005
    Despite policy gains at Beijing, and despite a decade-worth of efforts to use the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) to achieve legal and policy changes to protect and advance women's rights at the national level, many women in all regions of the world are actually worse off than they were 10 years ago.
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    Beijing + 10 Review: A Feminist Strategy for 2004-05, A Working Paper for NGOS on How to Move Forward

    2004
    The world has changed since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) was agreed in 1995. Informed by consultations on the future of women's human rights, the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) proposes that NGOs use a 'matrix of interlocking forces' as a critical framework for analysis of progress and obstacles to implementing the BPfA.
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    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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    Why Should we Care about Unpaid Care Work?

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004
    The failure of macroeconomic policies to acknowledge unpaid care work - such as housework, cooking, and caring for children, older people, and sick or disabled people - has a significant impact on women's lives. How can we ensure that unpaid care work is visible and accounted for in macro- and micro-level policy-making?
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    GENIA Toolkit For Promoting Gender Equality in Education

    2004
    How can education in Asia become more gender sensitive? The GENIA toolkit provides a collection of practical resources for gender focal points in Asian Ministries of Education (MoE). It aims to build the technical capacity of gender focal points to mainstream gender at national and regional levels.
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    Gender, Citizenship and Nationality Training Pack

    2003
    This training pack is based on learning from various field training initiatives as well as case studies drawn from CRTD's empirical research. The objectives of the pack are to develop a greater understanding of the concepts and applications of gender, citizenship and nationality; and to generate discussion about how individuals, particularly women, are excluded from citizen rights.
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    Gender, Citizenship and Governance: A Global Sourcebook

    Oxfam, 2004
    This resource book explores some of the experiences of Southern practitioners and experts working in the field of gender, citizenship and governance which have emerged in the context of KIT's 'Gender, Citizenship and Governance' programme. The book begins by giving an overview of the debates within development on citizenship and governance and how they relate to gender equality.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 15: Gender and ICTs

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    Dramatic changes brought about by information and communication technologies (ICTs) have created new economic and social opportunities the world over. Their use, however, continues to be governed by existing power relations. This issue of In Brief looks at the relationship between ICTs and gender equality.

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