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  Health & sexuality: microbicides

  Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, 2003

  This special edition of Health and Sexuality magazine, published by the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, focuses on microbicides and the female condom.
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  Gender Issues in ICT Policy in Developing Countries: An Overview

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2002

  Without explicit attention to integrating a gender perspective into Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policies, the needs of women and girls risk being overlooked.
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  Telecenters and the gender dimension: an examination of how engendered telecenters are diffused in Africa

  Georgetown University, 2003

  Despite the proliferation of telecenters throughout Africa, women continue to be cut off from essential info-communication resources that could improve their lives. This thesis examines the relationship between gender differences, telecenter design and women’s accessibility to information and communication technologies (ICTs).
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  Programme consultation meeting on the protection of domestic workers against the threat of forced labour and trafficking

  Anti-Slavery International, 2003

  This paper examines the specific vulnerability of domestic workers to forced labour and trafficking and assesses the applicability of the trafficking/forced labour framework in addressing domestic work.The author highlights a clear need for specific regulation on domestic work.
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  Dynamics of people's participation in development: a study with special reference to women's participation in the local level planning in Kerala

  Eldis Participation Resource Guide, 2003

  This abstract summarises the issue and demographics of participation in local level planning in Kerala (as addressed in the main report (not online)) with particular emphasis on women.Findings include:one of the main motivations behind participation is that of solving local problems.
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  Reaching the poor: the ‘costs’ of sending children to school: a six country comparative study

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This comparative research study focuses on the main barriers to education for the poorest households in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. Although the study set out primarily to look at the burden of education costs on the poorest households, other barriers to education (e.g. physical access, quality of education, vulnerability/poverty, and health,) are also discussed.
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  Working with young men to promote sexual and reproductive health

  Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002

  Gender is increasingly acknowledged as central to understanding young people's experiences of sexual relationships and health.
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  Pastoral women as peacemakers

  Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 2003

  This report examines the traditional roles of pastoral women in peace and conflict and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches to working with these women on conflict issues.
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  Healthy decisions? Reproductive healthcare for Muslim women in India

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What influences a woman’s reproductive healthcare decisions? Men? Cultural beliefs? Money? When this vital area of public health services remains largely unused, it is time to examine attitudes to reproductive health and improve access to available resources.
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  Involving grandmothers in mother and child health projects

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  What do grandmothers know about health issues? Does acknowledging grandmothers’ influence on family health matters lead to better programmes? And how can grandmothers get involved?

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