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    Engaging boys and young men in the prevention of sexual violence: A systematic and global review of evaluated interventions

    Promundo, 2011
    The purpose of this review is “to investigate the effectiveness of interventions for preventing boys’ and young men’s use of sexual violence, including: increasing gender-equitable attitudes, bystander intentions, and other attitudes and behaviours”. It considers a total of 65 studies to assess the effectiveness of such interventions.
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    Factsheet: The Philippines

    United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, 2011
    This fact sheet by UN Women presents an overview of the situation women currently face in the Philippines, as well as the various ways in which UN Women has been supporting governments and civil society.
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    Changing their world: concepts and practices of women’s movements, 2nd edition

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011
    This collection of four case studies of marginalised women's attempts to organise and empower themselves and others is the 2011 update to AWID's Changing their World: Concepts and Practices of Women's Movements. Covering sexuality, conflict, disability and sex workers, the case studies highlight the origins, structures and strategies adopted by feminist movements in challenging contexts.
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    Beyond gender parity in education: acheiving gender equality in and through education in the Philippines

    2007
    With a greater percentage of girls receiving primary education than boys, gender parity in the Philippines seems to have been reached; yet what about the quality of the education that they receive? This report by E-Net Philippines, a civil society network of approximately 150 member organisations based in the Philippines, seeks to answer that question.
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    Palestinian women and security: why palestinian women and girls do not feel secure.

    Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2012
    This report presents the perspectives of Palestinian women and girls on issues related to security as well as their assessment of the services provided by local authorities and/ or the international community to address their security needs.
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    Straregizing for change in time of crisis: why not start from women's agency?

    2009
    Written by Bianca Maria Pomeranzi, gender advisor for the Italian Agency for Development, this article is a call for reform in how the issue of gender is addressed in development. The article begins with an introduction of the continuing global economic downturn, suggesting that the risks posed to developmental progress make the case for reform all the more necessary.
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    The security sector and gender in West Africa: A survey of police, defence, justice and penal services in ECOWAS states

    Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2011
    What good practices and gaps in gender and security should be addressed in West Africa? This report is based on a survey carried out by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), to document security sector gender integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
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    Men Who Care: A multi country qualitative study of men in non traditional care giving roles

    International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2012
    What hinders men's involvement in care work? What encourages it? Who are the men who are doing more than the average and are taking on care work as a key part of their lives? How do men understand and describe their participation in activities that traditionally seen as female roles, both in the home and in the work setting?
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    Gabriela Women's Party

    Gabriela Women's Party, 2012
    Named after Gabriela Silang, who led a regional revolt against Spanish colonisers almost 400 years ago, Gabriela is a national women’s coalition formed by diverse groups in response to the Marcos dictatorship. This website is the home of the Gabriela Women’s Party, an off-shoot established in 2000 and now the fourth largest political party in the Philippines.
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    Paradox and promise in the Philippines: a joint country gender assessment

    Asian Development Bank, 2008
    This joint country gender assessment, launched in October 2007, was led by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with cooperation from the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW), the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the European Commission (EC), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations

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