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    Gender, Participation, Health and Positive Thinking: A Personal Perspective

    2004
    As an HIV positive activist herself, and from personal experience of donors and development organisations, Welbourn highlights the importance of understanding the widespread impact of HIV/AIDS on positive people, women in particular, and of involving them, in finding solutions to HIV-related problems.
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    Gender Analysis and Assessment: Volume 1 Gender Analysis

    2006
    Cambodia is slowly recovering from decades of violence and unrest. One positive outcome of this social upheaval is that oppressive gender roles and responsibilities are being challenged. Alongside this process are efforts to improve the status of women and promote their human rights.
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    The United Nations: A Framework for Support of Gender in Cambodia

    2006
    The United Nations (UN) is committed to addressing gender concerns in Cambodia as a priority in its implementation of the UN Development Assistance Framework 2006-2010. The UN recognises that women are underrepresented politically in Cambodia and have a lower economic, social and cultural status to men.
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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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    My Unconventional Wedding

    BRIDGE, 2006
    In China marriage is the norm. Many people get married, including gay men marrying women (straight or not), for reasons of convenience and under social pressure, but also for reasons of pleasure and through choice. However, gay men who marry women are often blamed by the gay community for not being gay enough, or by health authorities for transmitting HIV and endangering society.
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    Change, choice and power: young women, livelihoods and HIV prevention

    United Nations Population Fund, 2007
    If poor young women and adolescent girls have access to their own incomes, will this empower them to refuse unwanted sex, negotiate condom use and walk away from violent relationships? This paper explores this question.
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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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    From Microfinance to Macro Change: Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty

    Microcredit Summit Campaign, 2006
    This advocacy booklet calls for integration of reproductive health education with microfinance initiatives (MFIs) in developing countries. It presents individual stories, case studies and findings to show the impact that this combination can have on reducing poverty and improving individual lives, particularly of women who would otherwise not have income-generating opportunities.
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    Promoting Gender-Sensitive Entrepreneurship Via Microfinance Institutions

    2005
    How can microfinance institutions (MFIs) become more gender-sensitive? Microfinance is often praised because it is believed to facilitate women's 'empowerment'.

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