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  Vietnam gender assessment 2006

  World Bank Publications, 2006

  Vietnam has one of the highest rates of economic participation of women in the world as well as the highest participation of women in parliament in the Asia Pacific Region; however, while progress has been made, almost half of the targets in the second Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women (2001-2005) were not met.
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  Women’s [HIV/AIDS] Treatment Literacy Toolkit

  Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service, 2005

  Southern Africa remains by far the most affected region by the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
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  Regional strategies for empowering women

  Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2007

  There has been an increase in the participation of women in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region governments. The shift from three percent to seven percent across the board is partly due to the case of Iraq’s enforced twenty-five percent quota for women in parliament.
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  Gender perspective: working together for disaster risk reduction: good practices and lessons learned

  United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2007

  The Hyogo Framework for Action requires the full, active and balanced participation of both sexes, yet gender issues are often overlooked in the implementation of disaster risk reduction. This report from the UN/ISDR seeks to increase understanding of the gender vulnerabilities and risks, and to highlight women’s valuable contribution to disaster risk reduction.
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  ‘She sweet up the boopsy and him nuh get nuh wine’ Young Women and Sexual Relationships in Kingston, Jamaica

  Options Consultancy Services, 2008

  This report presents findings from a qualitative study into young women’s sexual relationships in inner-city Kingston, Jamaica. The study explores the social and economic environment in which young women’s relationships take place. It identifies opportunities and barriers to behaviour change and insight into condom use, HIV risk perceptions, and types of sexual relationships.
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  Woman or child? voices of teenage girls in the Middle East

  Save the Children [Sweden], 2006

  This Save the Children publication investigates the situation of girls aged 12-18 years old in the Middle East with particular emphasis on the issues of participation and non-discrimination; the latter from the perspective of gender-based discrimination. It is based on interviews with teenage girls in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Yemen.
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  The participation gap: systemic and individual influences on gender differences in political participation

  Latinobarómetro Corporation, 2005

  This paper examines the relationship between gender and participation and public opinion in seventeen Latin American countries. In particular, it explores the way historical and institutional frameworks of each country shape gender's role in politics.
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  The social and gendered nature of ginger production and commercialization: a case study of the Rai, Lepcha and Brahmin-Chhetri in Sikkim and Kalimpong, West Bengal, India

  International Development Research Centre, 2006

  This paper explores strategies for involving women in the management and control of ginger production in India. The focus is on the social and gendered nature of ginger production, commercialisation and disease management.
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  Mirror on the media: gender and advertising in Southern Africa

  Gender Links, Johannesburg, 2007

  Covering 1,650 radio, television, print and billboard advertisements in Mauritius, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, this study establishes how women and men are represented and portrayed in advertising. Key findings of the study include:
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  Gendered citizenship in Sudan: competing perceptions of women's civil rights within the family laws among northern and southern elites in Khartoum

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007

  Are religiously anchored family laws which set limits to women’s civil rights (such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, maintenance and financial custody of children, and alimony) legitimate?

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