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    The Gender Dimensions of Poverty in Egypt

    2001
    Does poverty in Egypt have a woman's face? Is female poverty linked to their conditions in the labour market or levels of education? Are women particularly at risk in poor households? This report addresses the gender dimensions of poverty using the recent Household Expenditure, Income and Consumption Survey of 1999/2000 for Egypt.
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    Outsiders 1978-2000: a Personal History

    Leydig Trust, 2000
    People with disabilities have a right to love and sex as much as anyone else. This is the message of "Outsiders", a UK based organisation for people who feel isolated because of physical disabilities or social disabilities such as shyness, phobias or mental illness. Outsiders helps them gain confidence, make new friends and find partners. People of all sexual orientations are welcome.
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    Beyond Victims and Villains: Addressing Sexual Violence in the Education Sector

    Panos Institute, London, 2003
    Gender-based violence has physical, sexual, and psychological consequences, and is frequently the cause of ill health and even death among women aged 15 to 44. Younger women appear to be particularly at risk. Gender violence worldwide often remains unaddressed. It is rarely talked about within schools and universities, which are often perceived to be the safest places.
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    The Integration of Women's Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership/L'integration des Droits des Femmes dans le Partenariat Euro-Mediterraneen

    Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2003
    The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, launched in 1995, provides a framework for political, economic and social relations between the 12 partners of the southern Mediterranean and 15 European Union member states. This report explores the dynamics that hinder and promote women's rights within this partnership and in the Middle East and North Africa.
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    Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies

    Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 2000
    Controlling the sexuality of women continues to be one of the most powerful tools of patriarchy in most societies. The essays in this volume show that the sexual oppression of Muslim women is not the result of an Islamic vision of sexuality, but a combination of political, social and economic inequalities practiced through the ages.
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    BRIDGE Report 33: Gender, Emergencies and Humanitarian Assistance

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1995
    How can emergency relief and humanitarian assistance be more gender-sensitive? This report argues that emergency and humanitarian assistance tends to be gender-blind, responding to women's needs solely as victims and mothers, without accounting for changes in gender relations that arise out of crises.
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    Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

    Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003
    The goal of this project was to assist illiterate and out-of-school adolescent girls in making informed decisions regarding their reproductive health and rights. The Aamaa Milan Kendra (AMK or Mothers' Club), an NGO set up in 1999 in Nepal, has been supporting activities that help adolescent girls challenge gender inequity and expand their life options.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 13: Gender and Armed Conflict

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    Conventional understandings of war and its aftermath overlook the impact on gender relations. Gender inequality pre-dates and is often exacerbated by conflict. But this does not mean that women are always victims and men only perpetrators. Men also suffer from torture and violence.
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    Gender and Armed Conflict: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    This collection of resources on gender and armed conflict sheds light on how gender inequality intersects with armed conflict and its aftermath, resulting in gender-specific disadvantage that is often overlooked.
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    Gender and Armed Conflict: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    In this report, which forms part of the Cutting Edge Pack on gender and armed conflict, the impact of armed conflict on gender relations, and the distinct ways that both women and men are affected, is explored. It highlights the gender-specific disadvantages experienced by women and men that are denied by conventional interpretations of armed conflict and post-conflict reconstruction processes.

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