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  Gender Recognition Bill - Special Feature

  Press for Change, 2005

  A new law has been passed in the UK in 2004 which offers transsexual people full legal recognition of change of gender. The bill was introduced in part due to European Court rulings that the UK government was violating transsexual people's human rights.
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  Understanding Prejudice: Attitudes Towards Minorities

  Stonewall, 2004

  A nationwide opinion poll carried out in the UK in 2003 finds that 36 per cent of respondents express no prejudice against minority groups, while 64 per cent describe themselves as prejudiced against one or more groups.
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  Changing World, Changing Lives

  2003

  How have women progressed towards equality in the UK? This document, produced by the Women and Equality Unit of the Department of Trade and Industry, is a summary of the UK's fifth periodic report on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), covering the period 1999 to 2003.
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  Diversity and Difference: Minority Ethnic Mothers and Childcare

  Women and Equality Unit, 2004

  How important is childcare for a good work-family balance? How does ethnic diversity influence the type of childcare needed? This research was commissioned by the Women and Equality Unit in the Department of Trade and Industry to find out the main childcare needs of ethnic minority children and their parents in the UK in order to help better plan childcare for those communities.
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  Programme planning materials and training resources: a compendium

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This compendium of materials is intended as a tool for programme planners and health workers interested in improving their youth-focused HIV prevention programmes. Documents summarised in the compendium are drawn from a variety of organisations and institutions, and address global issues, rather than region-specific topics.
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  Our Common Interest, Report of the Commission for Africa

  Commission for Africa, 2005

  This year promises to be a decisive one for Africa. In 2005, the United Nations (UN) will conduct a five-year review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to halve world poverty (most of which is in Africa) by 2015.
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  Women, Income-generating Activities and the Conservation of Natural Resources: Medicinal, Culinary and Aromatic Plants in the Sudan

  United Nations, 2002

  This paper presents information on the role of Sudanese medicinal, culinary and aromatic plants in the conservation of natural resources and in the generation of income for rural women. In most parts of the Sudan women constitute the principal labor force for both cash crops and food production.
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  Sudan Gender Profile

  United Nations Joint Assessment Mission, 2004

  This factsheet provides an overview of gender concerns and the status of women in Sudan.
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  Gender Assessment Sudan ISP: 2003-2005

  2003

  As Sudan emerges from decades of internal conflict, this report outlines the status of women in Sudan, with a particular emphasis on the differing challenges faced by women in Northern and Southern Sudan. Gender relations in Sudan must be examined through the lens of a range of ecological, ethnic, cultural and socio-economic differences.
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  Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to the Year 2010

  Asian Development Bank, 2003

  The renovation process in Vietnam in the past decade has enabled significant economic growth as well as and greater rights and more important economic roles of farming households. However, much of this reform has focussed on men as head of households, meaning men have benefited more from economic reform, both economically and in terms of their power within the household.

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