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  Beyond Victims and Villains: Addressing Sexual Violence in the Education Sector

  Panos Institute, London, 2003

  Gender-based violence has physical, sexual, and psychological consequences, and is frequently the cause of ill health and even death among women aged 15 to 44. Younger women appear to be particularly at risk. Gender violence worldwide often remains unaddressed. It is rarely talked about within schools and universities, which are often perceived to be the safest places.
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  The Integration of Women's Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership/L'integration des Droits des Femmes dans le Partenariat Euro-Mediterraneen

  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2003

  The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, launched in 1995, provides a framework for political, economic and social relations between the 12 partners of the southern Mediterranean and 15 European Union member states. This report explores the dynamics that hinder and promote women's rights within this partnership and in the Middle East and North Africa.
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  Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  The goal of this project was to assist illiterate and out-of-school adolescent girls in making informed decisions regarding their reproductive health and rights. The Aamaa Milan Kendra (AMK or Mothers' Club), an NGO set up in 1999 in Nepal, has been supporting activities that help adolescent girls challenge gender inequity and expand their life options.
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  Socialization to gender roles and marriage among Egyptian adolescents

  World Conservation Union, 2000

  How does Egyptian society influence the development of set gender roles amongst adolescents in preparation for marriage' Using national survey data, this paper explores gender socialisation and attitudes towards marriage among unmarried Egyptian adolescents aged 16-19 years. Great gender differences were found.
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  Educating girls: transforming the future

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2000

  Education is fundamental for individual lifelong development and brings multiple social and economic benefits. Yet over 130 million children - mostly girls - are denied this right.
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  The effect of early childhood development programs on women's labor force participation and older children's schooling in Kenya

  Gendernet, World Bank, 2000

  Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres have grown rapidly in number since Kenya's independence in 1963. The effectiveness of ECD investment is usually based on the school achievement and cognitive ability of ECD graduates. Little is known about the indirect benefits of ECD on the welfare of households.
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  Children: Facts and Figures

  BRIDGE, 1999

  Tables of key statistics on gender and children covering: the annual death rate of 2-5 year olds by sex; gender gaps in the classroom; school achievement; and the risks to physical, social and emotional well-being of early marriage.
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  Better Rich or Better There? Grandparent Wealth, Coresidence, and Intrahousehold Allocation

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 1997

  In much of the developing world, extended family household structures are more common than nuclear families. This paper examines the effect of family background over two generations on investments in children (education and land) in the rural Philippines.
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  Educating Indigenous Girls in Latin America: Closing the Gap

  1997

  Despite the fact that gender parity in education has been achieved for children in most Latin American countries, the education of indigenous girls lags behind the rate for indigenous boys, and further behind the rate for non-indigenous children. As a group, indigenous females have the lowest literacy rate.
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  The Girls Report: What We Know and Need to Know About Growing Up Female

  National Council for Research on Women, 1998

  How do girls in the United States (U.S.) meet adolescent challenges' Large- scale national studies suggest that they are as likely as boys to smoke, have inadequate access to sports, are twice as likely as boys to suffer depression and are often subjected to violence.

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