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    Briefing cards: Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and the post-2015 development agenda

    Family Care International, 2014
    This set of five briefing cards, produced by the Universal Access Project, sets out the links between sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) and five areas key to the post-2015 development agenda. The areas are education, economic benefits, the broader health agenda, gender equality and the environment.
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    Strategies of resistance: challenging the cultural disempowerment of women, a global project of the WRRC

    Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2011
    Led by the organisation Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), the Women Reclaiming and Redefining Cultures (WRRC) project seeks to address the nexus of control over women's sexuality, imposed through violence and exclusion from public arenas, to strategize around the assertion of women's rights over body, self and public spaces as interconnected sites of contestation; and to challenge
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    Motherhood in childhood: facing the challenge of adolescent pregnancy

    United Nations Population Fund, 2013
    Every day in developing countries, 20,000 girls below age 18 give birth. Nine in 10 of these births occur within marriage or a union. This has consequences on the health, education, employment and rights of an untold millions of girls. What are the challenges of adolescent pregnancy, and what can we do to ensure girls have a healthy and safe transition into adulthood?
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    Community engagement in health service delivery

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2011
    What evidence is there to show that community participation and accountability in health service delivery leads to improved access to quality health services, improved health outcomes, increased government ownership/responsibility, and more stable peace-building efforts? This Health and Education Advice and Resource Team report examines these questions.
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    Empowerment of communities and individuals for greater health self-reliance

    Health and Education Advice and Resource Team, 2014
    Current levels of human resources are not enough to meet the health Millennium Development Goals and Universal Health Coverage. There is growing recognition that human resources beyond a trained health workforce can be considered as ‘assets’ and be utilised to achieve these goals.
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    Gender inequality and maternal and child nutrition in Northern Nigeria

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    This summary provides an overview of how gender inequality impacts maternal and child nutrition in Northern Nigeria.
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    Property and inheritance rights key to empowering women living with HIV, say grass-roots groups

    UN Women, 2013
    It can no longer be disputed that women and girls are the most affected by the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, nor that they are often unable to protect themselves from HIV due to a range of social and economic inequalities. Tackling discrimination and HIV-related human rights violations against women is central to an effective HIV response.
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    UK Home Office resource collection: female genital mutilation

    Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, 2014
    This UK Home Office online resource series brings together all documents relating to FGM. The documents found here include statements opposing FGM, guidance notes, impact assessments, policy papers, correspondence, forms and promotional material.
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    Accelerating the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting

    United Nations Population Fund, 2014
    The Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), co-sponsored by UNFPA and UNICEF, aims to see communities that practice it abandon FGM/C within a generation. Key to their success is using a human rights-based approach to encourage communities to act collectively, so that girls or their families who opt out do not jeopardise marriage prospects or become social outcasts.
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    Aligning with local cultures to end female genital mutilation/cutting

    United Nations Population Fund, 2013
    Decades of efforts to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) have demonstrated that direct assaults on practices laden with cultural significance are doomed to fail. This publication highlights lessons learnt, in order to formulate new strategies that take a more 'culturally sensitive' approach.

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