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    Safe Schools Every Girl's Right

    Amnesty International, 2008
    Every day, girls face being assaulted on their way to school or abducted for trafficking, pushed and hit in school grounds, teased, humiliated and insulted by their classmates, sexually harassed or abused because they are lesbians, disabled, migrants or refugees. In conflict areas, girls can be seized by armed groups, and some are injured or killed on their journey to school.
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    Getting disabled children into schools

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    A third of the 72 million children out of school in the world are disabled and only ten percent of disabled children in Africa attend school. Yet the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (FTI) is not yet responsive enough to the challenge of getting disabled children into school.
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    Access of the poor to agricultural services: the role of farmers’ organizations in social inclusion

    Royal Tropical Institute, 2008
    Farmers’ organisations (FOs) in Sub-Saharan Africa play an increasing importance role in allowing farmers to access agricultural services.
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    Disability insurance with pre-funding and private participation: the Chilean model

    Social Protection and Labor, World Bank, 2008
    Social security systems in many countries face problems of high and escalating disability costs. The disability insurance system in Chile is less well-known than the old age pension system, but it is equally innovative.
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    How many struggle to get by in retirement?

    Center for Retirement Research, Boston College, 2007
    The dramatic decline in the official poverty rate of adults age 65 and older over the last four decades in the United States leads many to assume that reducing poverty among older adults need not be a Government priority. This general observation fails to recognise the deficiencies in the official measure of poverty in the United States.
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    Women, ageing and health: a framework for action

    World Health Organization, 2007
    This report summarises the evidence about women, ageing and health from a gender perspective and provides a framework for developing action plans to improve the health and well-being of ageing women.
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    Potential impact and cost-effectiveness of Golden Rice

    Nature Publishing Group, 2007
    Genetic engineering (GE) in agriculture is a controversial topic in science and society at large. While some oppose genetically modified crops the question remains whether GE can benefit the poor.
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    Sustainable leprosy related disability care within integrated general health services: findings from Salem District, India

    Leprosy Review, 2007
    This paper, published in Leprosy Review examines the effectiveness of a self-care programme for people living with leprosy-related disabilities in a district of south India. The programme involves self-care training, guidance and monitoring by general health staff and facilitated by a non-governmental leprosy centre operating in the area.
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    Global leprosy situation, 2007

    The Weekly Epidemiological Record, 2007
    This paper in the Weekly Epidemiological Report, reports on the global burden of leprosy at the beginning of 2007. It finds that the number of new cases detected during the year is stabilising. This is the result of timely detection of new cases and prompt treatment with multidrug therapy which is provided free of charge. Key findings include:
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    Leprosy: too complex a disease for a simple elimination paradigm

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization : the International Journal of Public Health, 2005
    Can leprosy be eliminated? This paper considers the question against the background of the World Health Organization programme to eliminate leprosy. In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target of eliminating leprosy as a public health problem by 2000 where prevalence is less than one case per 10,000 people.

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