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  Violence against women: forms, consequences and costs

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2006

  Violence against women is complex and diverse in its manifestations, with far-reaching and long-lasting consequences and costs.
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  Zero tolerance: stop the violence against women and children, stop HIV/AIDS

  Global AIDS Alliance, 2006

  This document describes a framework for a comprehensive response to violence against women and children, including the resources that would be needed, political and financial, for full implementation.
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  Mairin iwanka raya: indigenous women stand against violence

  Pan African Development Information System, 2006

  Millions of indigenous women suffer violence in the name of tradition or as a consequence of neo-liberal economic reform. The rights framework, intended for their protection, is feeble.
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  Hope betrayed: an analysis of women victims of trafficking and their claims for asylum

  Humantrafficking.org, 2006

  Most victims of sexual trafficking who seek asylum in the UK are initially refused. To avoid both deportation and the dangerous risks associated with it, their last chance is to base their appeal the Refugee Convention or the Human Rights Act. Some succeed, others do not.
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  Violence against girls in Africa: a retrospective survey in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

  African Child Policy Forum, 2006

  This report presents the results of retrospective surveys in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda on young women's experiences of violence before they were 18 years old.
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  The girl child and armed conflict: recognizing and addressing grave violations of girls’ human rights

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2006

  To support efforts to strengthen and develop policy and programmes to prevent and or address the grave rights violations against girls in conflict situations, this paper documents and analyses some of these violations. It discusses existing international initiatives and reviews the most pertinent international legal standards relating to these violations.
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  Waiting opportunities: adolescent girls' experiences of gender-based violence at schools

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006

  Violence against adolescent girls in South Africa takes place against a backdrop of pervasive gender violence in society and stems in part from unequal power relations and strong patriarchal values. This study is based on focus group discussions with adolescent girls in South African schools.
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  Secretary-General's study on violence against women

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2006

  This aims of this study are to:highlight the persistence and unacceptability of all forms of violence against women in all parts of the worldstrengthen the political commitment and joint efforts of all stakeholders to prevent and eliminate violence against womenidentify ways and means to ensure more sustained and effective implementation of State obligations to address all forms of
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  Poverty, gender and human trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa: Rethinking best practices in migration management

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2006

  This report critically analyses the linkages between poverty, gender and human trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The report asserts that poverty is one of the primary factors that cause people, particularly women and children, to become victims of trafficking. And because human trafficking keeps victims in poverty, a vicious circle of poverty-human trafficking-poverty is perpetuated.
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  Securing equality, engendering peace: a guide to policy and planning on women, peace and security (UN SCR 1325)

  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006

  This guide aims to facilitate the creation of policies and concrete action plans on the issue of women, peace and security through the provision of good practices, specific recommendations and a six-step model process.

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