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    Gender Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa

    2007
    This paper presents an overview of key issues in the literature on gender justice in the sub-Saharan Africa region. Issues discussed include the exclusion of women from full citizenship status; gender inequalities in property relations, family relations and access to justice; and disregard for women's and men's sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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    Sexual and reproductive health services and HIV testing: perspectives and experiences of women and men living with HIV and AIDS

    2007
    All over the world HIV has been stigmatised, making it difficult for people living with HIV to access testing, treatment, care and counseling or even to act on a diagnosis or get advice and treatment, for fear of being judged. Prejudice in society has also often been reflected and reproduced by health care providers.
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    Called to Speak: Six Strategies that Encourage Women's Political Activism

    2006
    In recent years interfaith communities have been reinvented to provide a space for women's political activism and leadership.
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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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    Women's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2007
    Women's Contribution to Equality in Latin America and the Caribbean brings to the fore two key drivers in the structural pattern of inequality between women and men: first, political participation and gender parity in decision-making processes at all levels, and, second, women's contribution to the economy and social protection, especially in relation to unpaid work.
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    Between Hope and Fear Intimidation and Attacks against Women in Public Life in Afghanistan

    2004
    Regional military factions and religious conservative leaders, as well as the Taliban and other insurgent forces, have limited Afghan women's participation in society through death threats, harassment, and physical attacks. Women's rights activists have also been inadequately protected by the central government and international peacekeeping forces.
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    From Rhetoric to Reality: Afghan Women on the Agenda for Peace

    Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2005
    To what extent have Afghan women made significant gains between 2001 and 2005? This report provides an overview of mechanisms introduced by the international community to promote women's participation, including the new Ministry for Women's Affairs, political quotas, and donor aid and assistance programmes, and also examines the contributions of Afghan women themselves.
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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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    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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    Gender and Ageing Briefs

    HelpAge International, 2002
    Aimed at practitioners and policy makers, these briefs cover six key issues in ageing, gender and development:?gender in an ageing world;?age, gender and HIV/AIDS;?participation for older men and women;?humanitarian crises: hearing and understanding older people's gender needs;?violence and older people: the gendered dimension; and

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