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    Advancing Reproductive Health as a Human Right: Progress toward Safe Abortion Care in Selected Asian Countries since ICPD

    IPAS, 2004
    Nearly 70,000 women die every year as a result of unsafe abortions, 50 percent of these in Asia. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 1994, addressed abortion related maternal death as an international public health concern. Outcomes of the ICPD included agreement that post abortion care (PAC) should be available where abortion was legal.
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    The untapped potential of school directors to strengthen school-based responses to HIV/AIDS

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2005
    This brief argues for the increased role of school directors and teachers in reducing fear and ignorance surrounding HIV/AIDS, in general, and stigma and discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS, in particular.The brief highlights the following reasons to focus on school directors:school directors are often influential people in the community, and can be role models for good practi
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    Politics, science and shrimp farming – whose ‘objectivity’ counts?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Shrimp farming is a major industry in many developing countries, providing important foreign exchange and offering potential for economic development, particularly in rural areas. However, since the early 1990s, researchers, activists and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have been protesting about its environmental and social impacts.
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    HIV/AIDS in Asia: human rights and the education sector

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2005
    This paper examines the impact of HIV/AIDS on education from a human rights perspective. It offers a conceptual framework to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS on human rights and the education sector, and discusses directions for future response.
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    Environmental goods and services: a synthesis of country studies

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2005
    This study presents a synthesis of 17 country studies on environmental goods and services (EG&S). The countries examined are Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Thailand and Vietnam.
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    The impact of HIV/AIDS on children and young people: reviewing research conducted and distilling implications for the education sector in Asia

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2005
    This paper examines the impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic on children (0-18 years old) in Asia, and also looks at the implications of HIV and AIDS for the education sector.The main impact of HIV and AIDS on children are summarised into three main areas: loss of social and/or family support: children will also lose their economic, social and emotional safety net.
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    Gender matters

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Are remittance flows gender-neutral? Does it matter if the people involved in these transactions are male or female? Do remittances reshape gender relations? Most studies examine how much money is sent home, how to lower transfer costs or what percentage of a country’s Gross Domestic Product remittances represent.
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    Sending money home to Asia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Half the world’s international migrants and most international labour migrants come from Asia. It is the main destination region for remittance flows from north to south, as well as within Asia from countries such as South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand. The scale of remittances in Asia is unknown, however, and few policies exist to maximise their developmental impact.
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    The good life: family, health and money in Thailand

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
    Improving the quality of life of poor people is one of the key aims of international development. Such improvements are often assumed to follow economic prosperity. But the question of what quality of life might actually mean for those living in the developing world is rarely asked.
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    UNICEF tsunami relief study: the views of affected children on their lives and the tsunami relief effort

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2005
    This study was conducted to find out what children are thinking, one year on from the tsunami in Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia.

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