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  Accelerating action against AIDS in Africa

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2003

  This report, presented at ICASA 2003 in Nairobi, assesses current global commitments to addressing HIV/AIDS. It states that, despite the fact that the pandemic has recently reached the top of the African and international agenda, resources are still nowhere near sufficient.
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  The impact of fisheries development and globalization processes on women of fishing communities in the Asian Region

  Asia Pacific Research Network, 2003

  This paper looks at the impact of fisheries development and globalisation processes on women of fishing communities in the Asian region.
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  The life and struggle of women workers under contractualization

  Asia Pacific Research Network, 2003

  This paper addresses the issue of women in labour contractualisation in the Philippines. Labour contractualisation refers to the replacement of regular workers by temporary workers who are not given benefits, do not accumulate seniority and could be easily terminated.
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  Chronic poverty in India: lessons from recent research

  Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2003

  This paper is based on a synthesis of recent literature on poverty in India. It argues that within the context of urban poverty in India, spatial analysis does not feature prominently enough within the recent livelihoods work.
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  Millennium indicators database

  United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2002

  This statistical resource presents the 8 Millennium Development Goals, 18 targets and 48 indicators to measure progress towards the MDG.
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  Just die quietly: domestic violence and women’s vulnerability to HIV in Uganda

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This paper argues that women are becoming infected with HIV because the state is failing to protect them from domestic violence. It bases the report on 120 interviews with Ugandan women.The paper argues that many women are victims of marital rape.
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  An information guide - preventing discrimination, exploitation and abuse of women migrant workers

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This Information Guide is intended:To enhance knowledge and understanding of the vulnerability of women migrant workers to discrimination, exploitation and abuse throughout all stages of the international migration process, including being trafficked;To promote and improve legislation, policies and action to prevent such discrimination, exploitation and abuse and to better protect thos
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  Preventing discrimination, exploitation and abuse of women migrant workers: trafficking of women and girls

  International Labour Organization, 2003

  This booklet is the sixth in a series on 'Preventing Discrimination, Exploitation and Abuse of Women Migrant Workers: An Information Guide', produced by the ILO.
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  It takes 2: partnering with men in reproductive and sexual health

  United Nations Population Fund, 2003

  This publication offers guidance on effective and gender-sensitive ways to engage men in the reproductive and sexual health of themselves and their partners. It includes examples of successful strategies and programming as well as lessons learned.A checklist summarising key points aims at creating a useful tool for designing and evaluating projects.
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  Applying an equity lens to child health and mortality: more of the same is not enough

  The Lancet, 2003

  Gaps in child mortality between rich and poor countries are unacceptably wide and in some areas are becoming wider, as are the gaps between wealthy and poor children within most countries.

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