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  Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water – 2015 update and MDG assessment

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2015

  Looking back on 25 years of water, sanitation and hygiene monitoring, the report provides a comprehensive assessment of progress since 1990. The MDG target for drinking water was achieved in 2010 but the world has missed the sanitation target by almost 700 million people.
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  Breastfeeding policy: a globally comparative analysis

  World Health Organization, 2013

  The objective of this paper is to explore the extent to which national policies guaranteeing breastfeeding breaks to working women may facilitate breastfeeding.
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  Impact of a Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace on an Employed Mother's Intention to Continue Breastfeeding After Returning to Work

  2013

  Ever-increasing populations of women in their childbearing years are choosing to become employed. Breastfeeding provides unique health advantages to both the infant and mother. A breastfeeding-friendly workplace might be an important factor for predicting breastfeeding rates among working women.
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  Program on the Global Demography of Aging at Harvard University (PGDA)

  The Program on the Global Demography of Aging (PGDA) carries out research on important themes related to global aging and health, with an emphasis on issues in the developing world.
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  Challenging disadvantage in Zambia: People with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in the criminal justice system

  Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2015

  People with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities who engage in, or who are alleged to have engaged in, offending behaviour are likely to come to the attention of the police in much the same way as anyone else.
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  American Institutes for Research (AIR)

  Not-for-profit behavioral and social science research and evaluation organisation. Within the United States and internationally, AIR:
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  Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

  The Lancet, 2015

  This Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change maps out the impacts of climate change, and suggests necessary policy responses.
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  Age International

  In 2012 Age UK created Age International as a subsidiary charity to lead and manage its international work. It also works as part of the HelpAge International network.
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  International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)

  The IUSSP aims to promote the scientific study of population, encourage exchange between researchers around the globe, and stimulate interest in population issues.
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  Progress for children: beyond averages - learning from the MDGs

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2015

  This eleventh edition of Progress for Children is UNICEF’s final report on the child-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It presents latest data that show while the MDGs helped drive tremendous advances in the lives of the world’s children, development efforts in the past 15 years failed to reach millions of the most disadvantaged.

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