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    Monitoring Implementation of UNSCR1325 in Kosovo. Executive Summary

    Kosova Women's Network, 2007
    The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR1325) defines the actions that need to be taken in order to protect women and to ensure that they participate at all levels of peacemaking, peace building and peacekeeping.
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    The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Marriage Market for Women: Results from Tajikistan

    Poverty Frontiers, 2006
    What are the links between violent conflict, marriage markets and female reproductive behaviour? This short paper explores the impact of civil wars on household and individual behaviour, using the 1992 to 1998 conflict in Tajikistan as a case study.
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    Gender assessment for Malawi

    Statistics Norway, 2007
    This report highlights gender disparities in Malawi and makes suggestions on how to improve the situation for women. It focuses on six key areas: education, work and employment, agriculture, female-headed households, violence and HIV/AIDS. The main findings of are:
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    Over their dead bodies: denial of access to emergency obstetric care and therapeutic abortion in Nicaragua

    Human Rights Watch, 2007
    Nicaragua is one of only three countries in the world to maintain a blanket ban on abortion, even in cases of rape, incest, or life- or health-threatening pregnancies. Such blanket abortion bans are incompatible with international human rights obligations, including obligations on the rights to life and health.
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    UNIFEM Afganistan Fact Sheet 2007

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    What is women's situation in Afghanistan in 2007? This factsheet presents key statistics in a number of key areas, including political participation, labour force participation, health, education, marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world, and a low female life expectancy of just 44 years.
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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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    3rd Pacific Ministers Meeting on Women, June 2007 & Final Decisions of The 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women, May 2007

    Secretariat of the Pacific Community,, 2007
    The 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women was attended by Ministers and officials from Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs) holding responsibilities for women's ministries and departments, and development partners.
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    To Stop Violence Against Women Respect for Women's Human Rights is Essential

    Amnesty International, 2007
    Violence against women and girls is a global pandemic, which often manifests itself as sexual violence in one form or another. This collection of stories, testimonies and recollections of girls and women - from Mexico, Colombia, China and Sudan - shows how women's freedoms are dependent on their sexual and reproductive rights, particularly those to safe and legal abortion.
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    BRIDGE Report 38: Challenges to women's reproductive health: maternal mortality

    BRIDGE, 1996
    Why, despite continual technological and medical advance, do one out of every fifty women in developing countries still die in pregnancy and childbirth' This paper explains how socio-economic, cultural and political factors make women vulnerable to maternal death. It also explores their capacity to access maternal health services and gender biases within these services.
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    Iraqi Women Under Siege

    Women for Peace and Global Exchange, 2007
    Are Iraqi women less politically, economically and socially active in post-war Iraq than they were under Saddam Hussain? This paper argues that Saddam Hussein's dictatorial government and 12 years of severe sanctions reduced the relatively extensive rights and freedoms Iraqi women had gained under previous governments.

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