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    Metaphors We Love By: Conceptualizations of Sex among Young People in Malawi

    Bioline International, 2007
    How do young people in Malawi conceptualise sexuality and sexual relations, and on what basis do they understand risks involved in sexual activities and make behavioural decisions?
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    The Safe Schools Program: a Qualitative Study To Examine School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Malawi

    2008
    This resource summarises the results of a participatory learning and action (PLA) research activity conducted in Malawi's Machinga District to help raise awareness, involvement, and accountability around school-related gender-based violence at national, institutional, community and individual levels. The study was conducted in October and November 2005 by DevTech Systems, Inc.
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    Safe Schools Every Girl's Right

    Amnesty International, 2008
    Every day, girls face being assaulted on their way to school or abducted for trafficking, pushed and hit in school grounds, teased, humiliated and insulted by their classmates, sexually harassed or abused because they are lesbians, disabled, migrants or refugees. In conflict areas, girls can be seized by armed groups, and some are injured or killed on their journey to school.
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    And Hens Began to Crow: Young African Women Engage the Public Sphere

    Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2006
    The political and social economic changes of today create 'new' obstacles for young women to advance in the public sphere: changes in gender relations leading to gender justice and social equity have been de-prioritised by more 'pressing' issues like the negative impact of economic liberalisation on health and education, the rise of religious fundamentalisms, human security and protection.
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    International Youth Perspectives on Youth Abortion: a Collection of Essays, Poems and Drawings

    Youth Coalition, 2007
    Many adolescent girls and young women throughout the world find themselves faced with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, often as a result of a lack of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services, and/or forced sexual relations. In February 2007, the Youth Coalition began the first of five National Abortion Advocacy Workshops in Paraguay.
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    The Girl Child and Armed Conflict: Recognizing and Addressing Grave Violations of Girls? Human Rights

    2006
    During armed conflict, girls are subject to widespread and sometimes systematic human rights violations that have mental, physical and material repercussions. These violations can include: illegal detention, abduction and forced removal from families and homes, forced recruitment into fighting forces, slavery, sexual exploitation and increased exposure to HIV/AIDS.
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    Tunaweza (kiswahili: we can do it!): Measuring the Impact of Sport on Girls? Life Skills

    BRIDGE, 2008
    How can we be sure that sport-in-development is a useful tool for improving life skills among girls and young women? This paper presents a method for measuring changes in life skills developed by Moving the Goalposts (MTG), a sport-in-development program in Kilifi, Kenya which uses football to improve the life skills of participants.
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    Grandmothers: a Learning Institution

    2005
    To what extent are development programmes overlooking the potential role of older women, or 'grandmothers', as valuable resources in children's education? This paper examines evidence regarding the role of grandmothers in children's development, particularly in terms of education, in Africa, Asia, Latin America,the Pacific, Aboriginal Australia, and Native North America.
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    Abortion and Young People

    International Programme on Sexuality of Rutgers Nisso Groep, 2007
    What is abortion? What are the types of induced abortion and how is it done? What are the risks involved? Are other young people also trying to have an abortion? These are some of the questions addressed in this practical and accessible brochure which seeks to provide correct information to young people, without fear or guilt, and to dispel the myths that exist around abortion.
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    Cambodia: Women and Work in the Garment Industry

    2006
    Women make up over 90 percent of approximately 290,000 garment workers in Cambodia. Based on a survey of 981 female garment workers and 80 human resource and administrative personnel, this study explores attitudes and practices around health and nutrition, breast feeding and childcare, personal security, harassment, workplace relations, and conflict resolution.

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