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    Policy approaches to engaging men and boys in achieving gender equality and health equity

    World Health Organization, 2010
    To reduce gender inequalities, efforts to transform men’s behaviours need to increase. Policy processes and mechanisms are key elements in engaging men and boys to bring about this change.
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    Farmers in a changing climate: does gender matter?

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
    Is there a strong gender dimension to experiences with climate variability and coping strategies? This publication on the topic of food security in Andrha Pradesh, India finds that there is. It is a report on a study carried out by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), with financing from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
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    Bringing Rights to Bear: An Advocate’s Guide to the Work of the UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive and Sexual Rights

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2003
    Six key human rights treaties provide the legal foundation for the international community's commitment to human rights: the Convention on Torture; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); the Convention against Racial Discrimination; the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Covenant; the Children's Rights Convention; and the Civil and Political Right
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    Gender climate change and health

    2009
    This paper by the World Health Organisation (WHO) focuses on the ways in which gender factors into both the vulnerability and the adaptive capacity of people effected by the health impacts of climate change. This information is organised into the two following perspectives:
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    Traditional leaders wield the power, and they are almost all men: the importance of involving traditional leaders in gender transformation

    Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2010
    How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tackle social issues such as HIV, gender equality and violence in rural African communities? A number of them, including Sonke Gender Justice network, the Ubuntu Institute, CARE International and Zambian Women for Change (WFC) are working with traditional leaders as a gateway to reach the people in communities they are targeting.
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    Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina

    Human Rights Watch, 2010
    Does it seem odd that seven years after Argentina’s first national reproductive health programme was implemented, the indicators on maternal health, unwanted pregnancies and abortion have hardly budged?
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    Situación de las Mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe

    Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, 1998
    Gender profiles for all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are available on the ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) website managed by its gender unit. Each profile is relevant to a specific country and is composed of quantitative data concerning population and health, education, household and the family, employment, income and political participation.
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    Mujeres Latinoamericanas en Cifras - Nicaragua

    Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 1993
    This publication is part of a research project carried out by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in 19 Latin American countries. Each report analyses the position of women in various sectors, namely demography, employment, health, legislation, social and political participation and organisations promoting the rights of women.
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    Mujeres Latinoamericanas en Cifras - Ecuador

    Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 1992
    This publication is part of a research project carried out by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in 19 Latin American countries. Each report analyses the position of women in various sectors, namely demography, employment, health, legislation, social and political participation and organisations promoting the rights of women.
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    Mujeres Latinoamericanas en Cifras - Cuba

    Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 1992
    This publication is part of a research project carried out by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in 19 Latin American countries. Each report analyses the position of women in various sectors, namely demography, employment, health, legislation, social and political participation and organisations promoting the rights of women.

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