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    Class of Dialogues on Vagina Monologues: A Sum-up on the Pedagogy of Women and Gender Studies

    2004
    In the evening of December 20, 2002, teachers from more than 20 universities in China came to the classroom to watch graduate students' perform a multimedia presentation of dialogues from 'The Vagina Monologues'. The response to this taboo shaking class was both applause and censure.
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    Gender Equality in Australia's Aid Program - Why and How

    Australian Agency for International Development, 2007
    The employment of women has done more to encourage global growth than increases in capital investment and productivity improvements. Advancing gender equality is essential to reducing poverty and increasing the effectiveness of aid and is a critical development goal in its own right. This policy describes what AusAID plans to do to advance gender equality in its aid programme.
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    All in Diary

    2007
    The 'All In Diary' is a practical tool for field-based humanitarian workers. It aims to improve the quality and appropriateness of relief work through: increasing awareness of good humanitarian practice; providing easy and timely access to relevant information and resources; and facilitating organisational learning and programme continuity.
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    Gender Mainstreaming In Practice: A Toolkit, 3rd Edition 2007

    United Nations Development Programme, 2007
    How is gender mainstreaming relevant to the work that I am doing? And, even if I understand its relevance, how am I supposed to implement it? This toolkit addresses these and other questions that are commonly raised by practitioners engaged in public policy and development.
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    The Second Fundher Report: Financial Sustainability for Women's Movements Worldwide

    2007
    Where is the money for women's rights and how can we tap it? How could new resources be mobilised to build stronger feminist movements in order to advance women's rights worldwide? This report analyses the funding landscape for women's rights work, building on an earlier report published by the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) in 2006.
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    Afghanistan Gender Profile

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006
    Afghan women suffer from one of the highest levels of maternal mortality in the world with 45 women dying each day during childbirth. In December 2003, only 12 percent of women were reported to have access to basic health care. Forced marriage, especially of girls, is still widespread in Afghanistan.
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    Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

    Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007
    Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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    Breaking the Silence: the Global Gag Rule's Impact on Unsafe Abortion

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2003
    To what extent is the Bush Administration's gag rule contributing to the global crisis of unsafe abortion? The global gag rule (also known as the Mexico City Policy) is an executive order, issued by President Bush in 2001, which restricts foreign Non Government Organisations (NGOs) who receive USAID family planning assistance from using their own, non-U.S.
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    Gender Database for Agriculture and Resource Management Policies in Pacific Island Countries

    1999
    In order to be effective, Women in Development initiatives need to be based on reliable data and area- specific information on gender roles in agricultural production and other contexts. This report calls for better gender-disaggregated information on the Pacific Region, with an emphasis on Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa.
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    Gender in the Pacific Island States: Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography

    BRIDGE, 2007
    Drawing on 124 diverse resources, this literature review and annotated bibliography provides insights into the culture, geography and history of the Pacific Region and considers how they shape gender relations, roles and norms.

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