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    Making it count: integrating gender in climate change and Disaster Risk Reduction

    CARE International, 2015
    This guide gives suggestions on how to practically address gender and women’s empowerment in climate change and disaster risk reduction (DRR) projects, or projects which have integrated climate change and DRR considerations. It has a focus on Vietnam.
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    How does reducing years of compulsory schooling affect education and labor market outcomes in a developing country?

    Economic Research Foundation, India, 2015
    At the end of the 1980’s, Egypt introduced a policy change to its pre-university education system where the years of primary education decreased from six to five, reducing the overall years of compulsory education from nine to eight.
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    Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS Youth

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2014
    Besides scaling up and improving the operationalisation of the initiatives designed to offer credit, work opportunities and vocational training to the youth, the BRICS nations, like all the nations of the globe, are faced with the pressing duty of finding means of including the youth productively in the labour market, in ways that genuinely represent the ambitions of this stage in the lifecycle
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    “She goes with me in my boat”: child and adolescent marriage in Brazil

    Promundo, 2015
    In the emerging body of evidence on child and adolescent marriage in Central and Latin America, Brazil stands out due to the sharp contrast between the country’s high ranking in terms of absolute numbers and the lack of research on the subject.
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    Innocence lost: child marriage in a global context, with a focus on Malawi

    KidsRights Foundation, 2014
    Malawi has the eighth highest rate of child marriage in the world, with over half of girls marrying under the age of 18. It is one of the world’s poorest countries, with 61% of the population living below the poverty line.
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    Global AgeWatch Index 2015: insight report

    HelpAge International, 2015
    The Global AgeWatch Index assesses the factors determining the social and economic wellbeing of older people around the world. As well as global analysis, this year the Index is focusing on the regions, hearing from older people themselves and looking at the widely varying geographic trends. It also includes data on ageing in the BRICS countries.
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    KidsRights Foundation

    KidsRights promotes the wellbeing of very vulnerable children across the world and advocates the realisation of their rights.
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    Dalits and the post 2015 develoment agenda: addressing the hidden apartheid of millions will be key to the success of the SDGs

    Asia Dalit Rights Forum, 2015
    The world over it has been clearly demonstrated that economic progress and stages of development have little impact on the continuum of inequalities. Consequently, Dalits, constituting 260 million people worldwide with the majority residing in South Asia, have fallen off the wagon of progress.
  • Organisation

    Asia Dalit Rights Forum (ADRF)

    Asian Dalit Rights Forum as a collective of Dalit rights activists from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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    Trafficking and the Conflation with Sex Work: Implications for HIV Control and Prevention

    United Nations Development Programme, 2012
    The current dominant understanding of prostitution within some governments and within international organisations that provide policy guidance and recommendations to governments is based on the conceptual conflation of ‘human trafficking’ with ‘prostitution’ and ‘sexual exploitation.’ This conflation bears critical thinking, as lawmakers endeavour to use huma

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