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    Violence and Abuse against Women with Disabilities in Malawi

    Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research, 2006
    Through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, this study examines the experiences of abuse, violence and neglect of 23 women with disabilities in the urban Blantyre district of Malawi. The disabilities of the interviewees include visual, mental, hearing and physical impairments.
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    Gendering the Draft Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities

    2006
    There are an estimated 300 million women with disabilities world-wide. These women face discrimination based both on their disability and their gender. Three quarters of women with disabilities are excluded from the workforce and women and girls with disabilities are at high risk from physical and sexual violence. Meanwhile only one percent of disabled women and girls are literate.
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    Burma: The Current State of Women in Conflict Areas. A Shadow Report To The 22nd Session of CEDAW

    Women of Burma, 2000
    Produced by indigenous women's organisations from Burma, this report highlights issues in education, health, violence and poverty as they affect women in Burma, particularly in rural conflict areas. The ruling military regime - the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) - has used force to maintain its control.
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    GenderStats on Myanmar

    World Bank, 2004
    Myanmar has a population of over 50,000, of which over 50.3 percent are women. Life expectancy is 64 years of age for women compared to 58 for men. Yet only 86.4 percent of women are literate compared to 93.9 percent of men. These are some of the statistics available from GenderStats, an electronic database of gender statistics hosted by the World Bank.
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    Any Progress for The Lives of Women in Burma since Beijing?

    2005
    Contrary to reports from Burma's ruling military regime on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) (the plan to come out of the 1995 United Nations World Conference on Women), women in Myanmar do not enjoy equal rights with men.
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    Proposed Indicators to measure the targets set by the international Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002
    This document is part of a proposal being developed to generate a system of indicators to measure progress towards meeting the objectives of the Action Plan of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Latin America and the Caribbean. A regional system of indicators is proposed to measure progress and identify inequalities among the various population groups.
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    Guide to Gender Sensitive Indicators

    Canadian International Development Agency, 1997
    Designed to help CIDA staff understand how to use gender-sensitive indicators, this guide reviews techniques for choosing appropriate indicators and discusses specific methodological approaches to using them at the project level. It outlines what gender-sensitive indicators are and discusses why they are useful.
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    Focus. Empowering Women

    United Nations Development Programme, 2005
    The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) supports Palestinian women through a wide range of initiatives - reviewed in this magazine. Training on gender and women's rights and assistance in gender mainstreaming is provided by UNDP to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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    NGO Alternative Report in Response to List of Issues and Questions with Regard to The Consideration of Periodic Reports on Israel's Implementation of The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

    Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, 2005
    Israeli authorities do not apply the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). According to this non-governmental organisation (NGO) report, this is one of the reasons for the widespread abuse of Palestinian women's rights.
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    Gender, HIV/AIDS and Stigma: Understanding Prejudice Against Women Living with HIV/AIDS

    BRIDGE, 2006
    62 men and women between the ages of 18 and 55 from the Khayelitsha Township in the Western Cape participated in six focus groups in this study about the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS. They reported that HIV/AIDS is seen as a woman's disease. This is not simply because most women die from it but also because positive women experience stigma more than men. Norms of ?township masculinity?

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