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  Trafficking in persons report June 2002

  2002

  This is the second annual Trafficking in Persons Report to Congress, as required by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, on the status of severe forms of trafficking in persons worldwide.
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  Youth, HIV/AIDS and the importance of sexual culture and context

  Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002

  In South Africa, it is estimated that over sixty per cent of HIV infections occur before the age of twenty five.
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  HIV/AIDS: who suffers in Namibia?

  Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit, 2002

  Who suffers when a household member dies from AIDS? This paper attempts to answer this question, as the author maintains that unlike deaths from other causes, deaths from HIV/AIDS have greater effects. The global, regional and national status of HIV/AIDS is outlined briefly, and then demographic projections for HIV/AIDS are run for Namibia.
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  Women connect! The power of communications to improve women’s lives

  Pacific Institute for Women's Health, 2002

  This document reports on the findings of a 3 year program designed to strengthen the ability of women’s NGOs in Africa to communicate more effectively.
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  Cooperation and competition across border markets: changes in the definition of women’s weaving activity in Lao-Thai borderlands

  Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 2000

  This paper examines the effects of globalization on women and gender relations in the border areas in Asia, through a case study of the weaving activities of women along the Thai and Laos border.Weaving has been a traditional women’s activity on both the Thai and Lao border.
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  Nelson Mandela/HSRC study of HIV/AIDS: household survey 2002: South African national HIV prevalence, behavioural risks and mass media

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2002

  HIV prevalence data in South Africa has, in the past, mainly been derived from an annual survey of pregnant women attending ante-natal clinics.
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  Involving, men in sexual & reproductive health: an orientation guide

  Population Reference Bureau, 2002

  The authors of this intercative guide state that its two goals are: promoting gender equity for its own sake, and using gender equitable approaches to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
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  ‘Turning it around?’: debating approaches to gender and North – South learning

  Cambridge Education Consultants, 2001

  This paper is concerned with the gender implications of the emergence of ‘North – South learning’ as a recent trend in international development theory and practice, which is understood as the focus on ‘finding solutions for Northern poverty in the experience of the South’ (Sweetman, 1997: 2).
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  Nepal and Pakistan: case studies of education project approaches to gender mainstreaming.

  Cambridge Education Consultants, 1999

  The paper relates to two DFID supported education projects: one in Punjab (Pakistan), the Punjab Middle Schools Project (PMSP), and one in Nepal, the Secondary Education Project (SEP).
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  AIDS epidemic update December 2002

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2002

  This paper, produced jointly by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), provides information on the current status of HIV/AIDS prevalence and trends worldwide. The report provides details of infection rates by region, for women and children and by mode of transmission.

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