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  Working with young men to promote gender equality: an experience in Brazil and Latin America

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  This paper describes the Program H Initiative which was developed in 1999 by Instituto Promundo in Brazil and other collaborating Latin American organisations. The initiative targets young men with the aim of promoting more gender-equitable attitudes and behaviours at the individual and community level.
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  Country profiles for population and reproductive health: policy developments and indicators, 2005

  United Nations Population Fund, 2005

  These profiles present information on the population policy and reproductive health programme situation in each country in five regions.
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  Breaking the silence and saving lives: young people’s sexual and reproductive health in the Arab States and Iran

  Harvard School of Public Health, 2005

  This research reviews young people’s sexual and reproductive health (YPSRH) and gender issues affecting young people ages 10–24 in 19 Arab States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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  Exchange on HIV/AIDS, sexuality and gender: internal HIV/AIDS mainstreaming

  Royal Tropical Institute, 2005

  This is the first issue of Exchange, previously Sexual Health Exchange, produced by the Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands in collaboration with Novib (Oxfam Netherlands). The main focus of this edition is mainstreaming HIV and AIDS in civil society organisations (CSOs).
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  Men's reproductive health curriculum

  Engender Health, 2003

  This training package is designed to provide a broad range of health care workers with the skills and sensitivity needed to work with male clients and provide men's reproductive health services.The "Counseling and Communicating with Men" section focuses on strengthening service providers' ability to interact with, communicate with, and counsel men—with or without their partners—on reproductive
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  Bringing gender to bureaucracies: experiences from African ministries of health

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  The integration of a gender focus into sector- wide approaches for development (SWAps) presents a number of challenges and opportunities. Case studies of health SWAps in four sub-Saharan African countries suggest that the approach has raised the profile of gender in ministries, but has not yet received the support or capacity to fully integrate gender equity into policy.
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  Changing a harmful social convention: female genital mutilation/cutting

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2005

  This paper examines the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and its social dynamics. It provides an explanation as to why the practice persists and of the elements necessary for its abandonment.
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  Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: Fourth World Conference on Women

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 1995

  This document, published by UNESCO, contains the declaration made by governments at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, and the related “Platform for Action” – an agenda for women’s empowerment. The declaration affirms a commitment to gender equality and the realisation of women and girls’ rights.
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  Sexuality, human rights and demographic thinking: connections and disjunctions in a changing world

  Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, 2004

  This article from the journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy examines the changing debate on ethics and demography (the study of human population), in particular its shift in emphasis from the public good to individual rights, including those relating to sexuality.
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  WHO global study on domestic violence against women

  World Health Organization, 2005

  This report by the World Health Organization presents a global perspective on domestic violence against women. Covering ten countries including Bangladesh, Peru and Tanzania, the document finds that violence against women is still widespread with far reaching health consequences.The report covers violence against women in both partner and non-partner experiences.

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