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  Sudan

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  This gender profile of Sudan provides an overview of the situation of women in light of over 40 years of conflict. It begins with an overview of the history of conflict in Sudan, highlighting in particular those historical events, including instances of increased rape and violence against women as new fighting broke out between groups, which increased violations of women's human rights.
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  Assessing the Gender Impact of the Community based Animal Health Programme in Southern Sudan

  Veterinaires sans Frontieres, Belgium, 2002

  How does the position of women in the Nuer Community affect the division of labour in livestock activities? In southern Sudan many communities are chronically food insecure with little access to livestock and its products (e.g. milk and blood meat).
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  State of the world's mothers 2005: the power and promise of girls’ education

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  Although total primary school enrolment rates have recently risen in every region of the developing world, there is still a significant gender education gap. Of 650 million children of primary school age in the world, 103 million do not attend school, and the majority of them are girls. This progress report focuses on girls' education.
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  UNHCR’s age and gender mainstreaming pilot project 2004: synthesis report

  Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, UNHCR, 2005

  Following three independent evaluations on refugee women and children and the role of community services, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched an age and gender mainstreaming pilot project in early 2004. To date, country assessments followed by capacity building and planning workshops have been conducted in fourteen countries.
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  The Tsunami's Impact on Women

  Oxfam, 2005

  Up to four times as many females as males may have been killed in the tsunami. This review of the evidence available in Aceh (Indonesia), India and Sri Lanka reveals that more women appear to have been killed by the tsunami for a variety of reasons. These include women staying behind to look for their children and women being less likely to know how to swim or climb palm trees.
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  Coping with Disrupted Lives: A Study of Afghan Girls

  2002

  This study explores the practical and emotional ways in which a generation coped with the war in Afghanistan and exile in Peshawar, Pakistan. It describes the daily lives of a number of young girls and their families during the various phases of war in Kabul, and in exile across the border.
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  I Have A Story To Tell

  2004

  This book documents the life-stories of a group of 32 young Zimbabwean women who were the first to be supported through their education by CAMFED International. They now hold positions of authority in their poverty-stricken rural communities, working to address the problems that are associated with rural poverty, HIV/AIDS and educational exclusion.
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  Women's Indicators and Statistics: Wistat Database CD-ROM, Version 4

  United Nations, 2005

  The Women's Indicators and Statistics Database, Version 4 (Wistat 4), is a global database of statistics and indicators on gender, population and social development. It contains detailed statistics and indicators on a wide range of topics for 206 countries or areas of the world.
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  Special Report of the World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics - Focusing on Sex-disaggregated Statistics on Population, Births and Deaths

  United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2005

  The Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, requested producers of statistics to generate and disseminate sex-disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation. In response to these demands, the United Nations Statistics Division is preparing a publication The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics, to be released in September 2005.
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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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