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  The Malala of Syria

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2015

  This short film (3 mins) tells the story of Muzon a young Syrian woman who is a passionate advocate for the education of girls and young women in Jordan’s refugee camps. Education has always played a big part in Muzon’s life. Both of her parents were teachers back in Syria’s southern Dara’a province, and her aunt and uncle were head teachers at local schools.
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  Freedom from Violence for Refugee Women

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2015

  This short film (1.30 mins) gives an emotive perspective on the hardships faced by refugee women and girls, where violence ag doesn't end when they stop running from the conflict. In displaced settings and refugee camps women and girls experience increased threat of gender-based and sexual violence.
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  Minimum Standards for Prevention and Response to Gender-based Violence in Emergencies

  United Nations Population Fund, 2015

  Gender based violence is a life-threatening, global health and human rights issue that violates international human rights law and principles of gender equality. In emergencies, such as conflict or natural disasters, the risk of violence, exploitation and abuse is heightened, particularly for women and girls.
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  Violence against women in the Gaza strip: After the Isreali Military Operation Protective Edge 2014

  ActionAid International, 2015

  Following the Israeli military Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014, this reports presents the findings of a study initiated by ActionAid and Alianza por la Solidaridad (Alianza) on violence against women (VAW) in the Gaza Strip, defined as ‘any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, includ
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  ‘One hand can’t clap by itself’: engagement of boys and men in Kembatti Mentti Gezzimma’s intervention to eliminate female genital mutilation and circumcision in Kembatta zone, Ethiopia

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  The successful involvement of men and women as part of a community-wide approach to shifting deep-rooted norms is critical for the abandonment of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM-C). However, there is limited research exploring how and why men engage in processes of abandonment and how this relates to shifts in gender relations within private and public spaces.
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  MenCare in Latin America: challenging harmful masculine norms and promoting positive changes in men’s caregiving

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  It is estimated that 80 per cent of men will become fathers during their lifetimes, making clear the importance of, and opportunity for, engaging men and boys in care giving.
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  The ‘One Man Can’ Model: community mobilisation as an approach to promote gender equality and reduce HIV vulnerability in South Africa

  2015

  One of the main contextual factors driving the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is shared social norms reinforcing restrictive masculine and feminine roles and inequitable gender relationships, which limit women’s ability to protect themselves from HIV while simultaneously putting social pressure on men to take on a range of sexual and health risks.
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  Innovations from the field: gender mainstreaming from the ground up for the World Food Programme

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  Food and nutrition security and gender equality are closely linked and mutually constitutive. The fact that women and girls are among the most undernourished in the world and are often hardest hit by food insecurity underlines this. Women’s productive labour and unpaid care work is central to the production, preparation and provision of food.
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  Breaking the silence: elder abuse in the Republic of Moldova executive summary

  HelpAge International, 2015

  Demographic projections for the Republic of Moldova indicate a staggering growth in the number and proportion of older people in the total population, which will have significant effects on the economy and society.
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  Fearless: Standing with Women and Girls to End Violence

  ActionAid International, 2015

  Despite decades of international agreements and commitments to tackle violence against women and girls (VAWG), it remains a daily reality. One-third of women globally are affected by violence. Violence undermines women’s ability to take advantage of economic opportunities; impedes their education; and restricts their choices around sexual and reproductive rights.

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