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    Cambodia: Women and Work in the Garment Industry

    2006
    Women make up over 90 percent of approximately 290,000 garment workers in Cambodia. Based on a survey of 981 female garment workers and 80 human resource and administrative personnel, this study explores attitudes and practices around health and nutrition, breast feeding and childcare, personal security, harassment, workplace relations, and conflict resolution.
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    SEWA Social Security: Organizing Women Workers for Insurance and Health Services

    2006
    In India, inequalities in access to health information, medical facilities and health insurance mean that those on low-incomes are substantially less likely than those on higher incomes to seek medical treatment or go to hospital.
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    World Bank Gender Stats: Iraq

    World Bank, 2007
    GenderStats is the World Bank's database of country gender statistics. Its pages on Iraq present sex disaggregated figures on size of population, life expectancy at birth, labour force participation, education and health. The web site also features an ?empowerment table?, which monitors the number of women representatives in national and local government in Iraq.
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    Access to safe abortion: an essential strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals to improve maternal health, promote gender equality and reduce poverty

    Millennium Project, 2007
    International leaders should support reforms of national laws on abortion in line with the commitments made at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994, and with the fifth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal mortality (the World Health Organization estimates that 13 percent of all maternal deaths globally are caused by unsafe abortion).
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    Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007

    2007
    Girls are getting a raw deal. They face double discrimination on account of their gender and their age, and in many societies they remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. 'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007' is the first in a series of annual reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.
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    Unsafe Abortion

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    What is the cost of unsafe abortion-related ill-health and death? This was the subject of a meeting held at the Institute of Development Studies (UK) in April 2007. The meeting reviewed recent work estimating the cost of unsafe abortion. Participants also discussed the economic costs to health systems, individuals and households, and the links between unsafe abortion and poverty.
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    Failure to Deliver: Violations of Women's Human Rights in Kenyan Health Facilities

    Federation of Women Lawyers - Kenya, 2007
    The Kenyan government has taken many positive steps to advance women's reproductive health and rights.
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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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    New insights on preventing child marriage: a global analysis of factors and programs

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007
    One in every seven girls in developing countries marries before the age of 15 and nearly half are expected to marry by their 20th birthday, according to this report.
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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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