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    International Youth Perspectives on Youth Abortion: a Collection of Essays, Poems and Drawings

    Youth Coalition, 2007
    Many adolescent girls and young women throughout the world find themselves faced with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, often as a result of a lack of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services, and/or forced sexual relations. In February 2007, the Youth Coalition began the first of five National Abortion Advocacy Workshops in Paraguay.
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    Freedom of Choice: A Youth Activist's Guide to Safe Abortion Advocacy

    Youth Coalition, 2007
    This guide aims to build young people's capacity to advocate for safe abortion care services. It is aimed at young people, people working with young people, and sexual and reproductive health and rights advocates.
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    Progress Report on Women and Gender Development

    Tanzania Ministry of Community Development Gender and Children, 2003
    This report maps progress on Tanzania's commitment to tackling gender inequality in light of the government's signing and ratification of international and regional agreements including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Gender and Development Declaration by Heads of State and Government of Southern African Development Corporation (SADC).
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    Widows, AIDS, Health and Human Rights in Africa

    2004
    This paper argues that widows and female children in Tanzania have traditionally been denied the right to inherit property from their husbands, even when the property was acquired during the marriage. This is further complicated by a three-part legal system consisting of customary law (law grounded in customs or traditions), Islamic law, and statutory law (law set down by a legislature).
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    Walking the Talk: Putting Women's Rights at the Heart of the HIV and AIDS Response

    Voluntary Services Overseas, 2008
    ?It is time to walk the talk on women, human rights and universal access to HIV and AIDS services?. This is the main message of this comprehensive report, which incorporates the voices and perspectives of women and girls from 13 different countries. Chapter 5 focuses on the challenges faced by women and girls who provide care for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS.
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    Gender, Social Support and Post-traumatic Stress in Postwar Kosovo

    Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004
    Men and women may feel the impact on their mental health of traumatic experiences in conflict situations in different ways, and may also respond differently to social support. This Kosovo Emergency Department Study was conducted in July-August 2001 to assess mental health two years after the end of the war.
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    SexPolitics: reports from the front lines

    Sexuality Policy Watch, 2008
    How and why are gender and sexuality being used in political power struggles within and across countries and institutions? This question was at the heart of a project launched by Sexuality Policy Watch in 2004 - a transnational, cross-cultural research initiative seeking to capture the dynamics of contemporary sexual politics.
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    Hidden: a profile of married adolescents in Northern Nigeria

    Action Health Incorporated, 2006
    Research and programmes aimed at improving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents in Nigeria have largely focused on unmarried girls and boys. But early marriage is prevalent in Nigeria, particularly in the North. In the North-West of the country, for example, an estimated 73 percent of teenage girls are married, usually to older men chosen for them by their parents.
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    Equal Opportunities for Women and Men in Kosovo

    Kosovar Centre for Gender Studies, 2005
    What principles does the Kosovar Constitutional Framework establish around equal pay, equal treatment for women and men at the workplace, and pregnancy and motherhood, and how effective are they in practice?
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    Conflict, State Fragility and Women's Reproductive Health: The Case of Basilan, Philippines

    Poverty Frontiers, 2006
    This research documents women's experiences during and since the armed conflict in the Basilan region of the Southern Philippines that took place between 2000 and 2003, and focuses particularly on the availability and adequacy of women's reproductive health services.

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