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  Poverty and gender inequality in asset ownership among households in Southern Nigeria

  2014

  This study concerns gender inequality in the ownership of certain assets among households in Southern Nigeria. With the aid of a structured questionnaire, data were obtained from 60 households using the multistage sampling technique. Results of the analysis are presented using histograms.
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  Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights: Unfinished Business

  UN Women, 2014

  UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka delivered this opening speech at the first in a series of events to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, outcomes of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women (1995).
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  Protecting the girl child: using the law to end child, early and forced marriage and related human rights violations

  Equality Now, 2014

  “What if instead of being treated as someone’s property to be betrothed, raped, abused, sold, with no power over her destiny, a girl is healthy, safe, educated, and empowered?”
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  Hope Chigudu’s thoughts on ‘Riding the Waves of Activist Leadership'

  African Women's Development Fund, 2014

  What’s the point of having a good ‘leader’ if there’s nobody left in the army to fight the struggle?
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  Gender politics makes a difference: experiences of the Heinrich Böll Foundation across the world

  Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2011

  All over the world, gender relations are changing. Economic and cultural upheavals are giving rise to ever-new ways of life and work. When those changes benefit women, it is usually due to the efforts made by of feminist networks and courageous individuals who resist their social and political exclusion, as well as the poverty, oppression and violence they suffer.
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  Democracy and gender equality: the role of the UN

  International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance / International IDEA, 2013

  Women’s participation is a central element of democracy, and the nature and degree of women’s participation is a key indicator of the quality of democratic culture.
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  Transnational responses to violence against women in the name of 'culture': evaluation of the Violence Is Not Our Culture Campaign (2008-2011)

  Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2011

  In 2007, members of the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign in Iran and the Women Living under Muslim Laws (WLUML) network initiated the ‘Violence is not our Culture’ (VNC) campaign. The VNC is aimed at bringing an end to the misuse of culture and religion to justify violence against women (VAW).
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  Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls

  TED, 2012

  All across the globe there are policies, conventions and laws, championed by great people, all with the aim of ensuring the safety and advancement of young people, especially girls. By and large, these have all failed.
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  Survey on Women Livelihoods in the Niger-Delta: an overview of women's economic activities in oil producing communities in Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa and Rivers states

  2010

  The economic crisis in the Niger Delta has been exacerbated by increased exploitation of oil and gas resources. In addition to suffering the effects of the economic crisis, women in the Niger Delta are victims of gender-based discrimination. They are underrepresented in politics, education and economics, including employed labour in the oil industry.
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  Joint submission by LGBTI organisations in Nigeria to the second Universal Periodic Review of Nigeria

  UN Human Rights Council, 2013

  Homosexual behaviour, expression and activities, is still a criminal offence in Nigeria. Law enforcers systematically arrest persons for same-sex sexual activities deemed an ‘unnatural offense’ under Nigerian penal and criminal codes.

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