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    Education under Occupation: Listening to Girls? Stories

    2008
    What are Palestinian children's reflections on the impact of the Israeli Occupation on their lives and education? What are the differences between boys' and girls' experiences?
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    Gender, Governance and the Feminisation of Poverty, chapter 4 in Women's Political Participation and Good Governance: 21st Century Challenges

    United Nations Development Programme, 2000
    What is the 'feminisation of poverty', and will 'good governance' serve to reduce it? Similarly, will poverty reduction necessarily help to advance gender equality? Principles around promoting choice and participation for women and for men are increasingly visible in governance agendas. But there is a tendency to promote participation for women in the same way as for men.
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    Video / DVD: 'Once Upon a Boy' and 'Once Upon a Girl'

    Promundo, 2006
    To accompany the training manuals produced by Instituto Promundo, two no-words cartoon video/DVDs have been developed. ?Once Upon a Boy? is a story about the challenges faced by a boy in the process of ?learning to be a man?, including issues related to fatherhood. The scenes do not contain any spoken dialogue - just sound effects - so the video can be used in a variety of contexts.
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    Boys Lower Schooling in Lesotho

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    Why is it that in Lesotho, girls are more likely to enrol at school, particularly at secondary level, and have higher literacy rates than boys? Traditionally, boys in Lesotho are involved in herding livestock from a young age, particularly among poor communities and those living in the highlands. In addition, as villages in the highlands tend to be isolated, pupils find schools harder to get to.
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    Violence against Children in Swaziland - Findings from a National Survey

    2007
    High numbers of female children in Swaziland experience sexual, physical and emotional abuse and violence. This national survey found that one in three females experienced some kind of violence as a child. Female relatives were most likely to perpetrate emotional abuse, boyfriends and husbands sexual violence and male relatives (other than the victims' father) physical violence.
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    Change and Continuity in Social Protection in Latin America: Mothers at the Service of the State?

    2007
    Far from 'empowering' women, social protection programmes in Latin America often increase women's unpaid responsibilities and reinforce the gender division of labour. This is the central argument put forward in this paper, which critically analyses two social protection programmes in Latin America. The first is the well-known Mexican-based Oportunidades programme (formerly Progresa).
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    Gender Sensitive Educational Policy and Practice: the Case of Malawi

    Zomba University, 2003
    What progress has been made towards ensuring that education in Malawi is gender sensitive? This paper provides an update on the Malawian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology's Policy and Investment Framework (PIF) and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), which emphasise the need to address gender imbalances and inequity in the education system at all levels.
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    The Provision of Childcare Services in the Czech Republic

    2008
    This paper draws attention to the problems faced by parents in the Czech Republic in finding a place for their child in pre-school facilities. This is due both to the decline of childcare services since 1989, coupled with the slightly increasing trend in the fertility rates in recent years.
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    Child Prostitution: the Commercial Exploitation of Children

    2008
    It is clear that child prostitution is a problem in the Czech Republic, with reports of internal trafficking of Czech children from areas of low employment near border regions with Germany and Austria, and of girls from the former Soviet Union, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East being trafficked to the Czech Republic for sexual purposes.
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    Because I am a girl: the state of the world's girls 2008

    Plan International, 2008
    How are girls affected by conflict and its aftermath? This report draws on the perspectives of girls and young women, particularly from Haiti, Liberia and Timor-Leste (East Timor), to explain why they experience war and conflict in the way that they do.

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