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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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  Unsafe State: State-Sanctioned Sexual Violence Against Chin Women in Burma

  2007

  Women in Chin State, an isolated mountainous region of Western Burma, are systematically sexually abused by troops of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the ruling military regime in the country. This report documents 38 cases of sexual violence and claims that the patterns of abuse are state sanctioned. The ruling regime has expanded its army in the region.
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  PeaceWomen

  2007

  PeaceWomen is a project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), which provides information on women, peace and security issues in areas of armed conflict. A core focus of the project is to monitor and work towards the rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325.
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  Bottom of the ladder: exploitation and abuse of girl domestic workers in Guinea

  Human Rights Watch, 2007

  Worldwide, domestic work is the largest employment category for children - especially girls. While other children in the family attend school, these girls are often denied an education. Many of them work up to 18 hours a day. They may also suffer beatings and sexual harassment or abuse.
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  A Gap Analysis Report on the Status of The Palestinian Women In the Context of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

  Mediterranean Women, 2001

  Initiated by the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), this gap analysis report was the result of over two years of concerted efforts of a number of Palestinian non-governmental organisations and government institutions.
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  Gender and Indicators: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  Gender-sensitive measurements are critical for building the case for taking gender (in)equality seriously, for enabling better planning and actions by gender and non-gender specialists, and for holding institutions accountable to their commitments on gender equality.
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  Framework for gender indicators: Table of Indicators

  2002

  This resource presents a table of indicators to facilitate the implementation and monitoring of the Beijing Platform for Action in the Asia and Pacific region.
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  Critical Areas, Issues and Topics in Sexual and Reproductive Health Indicator Development: An Annotated Bibliography

  Ford Foundation, 2002

  Although numerous indicators have been developed for measuring sexual and reproductive health (SRH) programme performance, there has been no international consensus regarding the most relevant indicators.
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  Chapter 7: Monitoring and Evaluation, in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2003

  This chapter discusses monitoring and evaluation of actions designed to protect against sexual and gender-based violence against refugees and internally displaced persons. It outlines six actions that should guide the development of a monitoring or evaluation system. One step is to establish coordinated and common reporting tools.
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  Uncounted and Discounted: a Secondary Data Research Project on Violence against Women in Afghanistan

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006

  To date there has been little research regarding the nature and extent of violence against women in Afghanistan. To address this gap, The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Afghanistan analysed data collected by service organisations and agencies working throughout the country.

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