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  Risk, Morality and Blame: A Critical Analysis of Government and US Donor Responses to HIV infections Among Sex Workers in India

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2004

  This paper is one of a series on gender and HIV in India, which since 1995 has received 67 million US dollars for its AIDS control program. It examines the effectiveness of strategies by the Government of India, with this assistance from the US, to address the vulnerabilities of adult female sex workers.
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  Report of the Gender and Credit Study in Niger: Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme West Africa

  2004

  This study is one of three studies on gender and fisheries supply chains in Benin, Gambia and Niger. The Niger study was carried out in Tafouka village, 400 kilometres east of the capital city, and included discussions with the fishermen's cooperatives and with women's groups. Fisheries are an important industry in Niger providing a livelihood to about 50 thousand people.
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  Dying to Learn: Young People HIV/Aids and the Churches

  Christian Aid, 2003

  Churches have been concerned that sexual health and HIV education may lead to promiscuity amongst young people. This report examines the evidence from rigorous academic studies. It concludes that sexual health and HIV education, including related life-skills education does not hasten sexual debut and does not increase the number of sexual partners.
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  Sexuality, Religion, Human Rights

  International Lesbian and Gay Association, 2006

  How do the different religions in Europe interact with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) movement? This newsletter of the International Lesbian and Gay Association explores new thinking on sexuality and gender by European Muslims, Catholics and Jews.
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  Thinking outside the Islamic Box: Linking Context and Credit in Muslim West Africa

  2004

  In West Africa, where several countries have large Muslim populations, the majority of women live at the economic margins and experience high levels of poverty. Generalisations are often made about women in Muslim countries, which assume that religion limits women's access to the resources that could help them move beyond poverty and exclusion.
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  Towards Gender Equality in the Arab/Middle East Region: Islam, Culture, and Feminist Activism

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  Gender statistics reveal that women in the Arab region are on average more disadvantaged economically, politically, and socially than women in other regions, and certainly more so than women in regions at similar stages of economic development (e.g. Latin America, Southeast Asia, and East Asia).
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  Culture Matters. Working with Communities and Faith-Based Organisations: Case Studies from Country Programmes

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Empowering women and meeting women's needs for education and health, including reproductive health, were identified as core development objectives at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
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  The Terms of Women's Empowerment: Islamic Women Activists in Egypt

  American University in Cairo, 2003

  How do Egyptian women find empowerment in Islamism when Islamists are traditionally perceived as the opposers of women's liberation? This study contends that rather than being dominated and oppressed, Islamic women are empowered as a result of their willing submission to higher levels of religious attainment.
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  Gender and Climate Change: Giving the ?Latecomer? a Head Start

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  Gender issues have made a slow entry into the climate change debate. This is partly due to the fact that climate change has generally been perceived as a global phenomenon, with little attention being paid to differentiating the potential impacts that women and men might face.
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  Trade impact review: Mexico case study: NAFTA and the FTAA: a gender analysis of employment and poverty impacts in agriculture

  Women's Edge Coalition, 2003

  Mexicans working in agriculture were hit hard by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There is now concern over the potential impact of increased trade liberalisation through the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). This case study seeks to quantify the differential impact on Mexican women and men of trade agreements so that lessons learned can inform new trade agreements.

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