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  The Progress Report on Implementation of Beijing Platform for Action on Women's Issues 1995-2005

  Royal Government of Cambodia, 2004

  Since 1995, when it signed up to the Beijing Platform for Action, the Royal Government of Cambodia has incorporated gender strategies into national plans and policies.
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  The Vanishing Victim: Criminal Law and Gender in Jordan

  Blackwell Synergy, 2007

  Criminal codes in Jordan are markedly gendered. This article analyses how the penalties for rape, domestic violence and honour killings reflect local norms of appropriate gender roles and society's desire to rectify the social standing and ?honour? of a raped woman and her family, rather than to punish the crime.
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  Status of Jordanian Women: Demography, Economic Participation, Political Participation and Violence

  2004

  This report is part of UNIFEM's initiative on Gender Equality Measured Through Statistics (GEMS). It presents statistical information on gender equality and the status of Jordanian women in four areas: demography, economic participation, political participation and violence.
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  Honoring the Killers: Justice Denied For ?Honor? Crimes In Jordan

  2007

  In Jordan, a woman's life is at risk if she engages in ?immoral or shameful? acts, such as talking with a man not her husband, even in public, or marrying someone her family does not approve of. ?Honour? killings in Jordan rarely carry a sentence of more than one year of imprisonment.
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  Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS

  2006

  Around the world, women are facing a catastrophic assault on their bodies, their rights and their health as a result of the prevalence of HIV and the unrelenting levels of violence against women on a global level. Each constitutes a crisis on its own. Yet in the lives of millions of women these crises are not separable; they are fundamentally linked.
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  The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Violence Against the Girl Child - Report of the UN Secretary-General

  2006

  Discrimination and violence against the girl child persist in all parts of the world. This report has been prepared in accordance with the programme of work of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for 2007-2009, which identified ?The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child? as the priority theme for the Commission's fifty-first session.
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  Promising democracy, imposing theocracy: gender-based violence and the US war on Iraq

  MADRE, 2007

  What is the relationship between Iraq's mounting civilian death toll and the ongoing increase in violence against women? This report explores the links between gender-based violence and the conflict that has ensued since the United States-led invasion. The paper argues that the Bush administration has traded women's rights for co-operation with the fundamentalists that it has empowered.
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  Quantitative research instrument to measure school-related gender-based violence

  DevTech Systems, 2006

  The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - funded Safe Schools Programme (Safe Schools) is working in Malawi and Ghana to create safe environments for all girls and boys. By promoting gender-equitable relationships and reducing School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV), Safe Schools also aims to improve educational outcomes and reduce negative health outcomes.
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  BRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography

  BRIDGE, 2007

  HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.
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  Reducing HIV/AIDS Stigma, Discrimination and Gender-based Violence Among Health Care Providers in Andhra Pradesh, India

  2006

  Stigma and gender-based violence are widely recognised as two key factors that restrict the effectiveness of HIV prevention programmes. Both inhibit individuals from adopting risk-reducing behaviours and accessing services for HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

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