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    Boom-time Blues: Big Oil's Gender Impacts in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Sakhalin

    Gender Action, 2006
    Why is it that extractive industries often bring massive short-term benefits to 'boom towns' but harm weaker social groups, including women, in the process?
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    HIV/AIDS as a Human Security Issue: a Gender Perspective

    2000
    The United Nations Security Council recently adopted resolution 1308 which specifically links the spread of AIDS to the maintenance of global peace and security. AIDS is a human security issue because it destabilises society by threatening socioeconomic development, and even threatens human survival in areas such as Botswana where 35% of the adult population is HIV positive.
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    In Their Own Words: The Formulation of Sexual and Health-Related Behaviour Among Young Men in Bangladesh. Summary Report

    Catalyst Consortium, 2005
    Adolescence is a time when attitudes and values about 'correct' behaviours are often learned and internalised. For boys, these can include viewing women as sex objects, condoning violence to obtain sex, and equating sexual 'prowess' (or skills) and multiple sexual partners with 'manhood'.
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    Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Men

    2003
    The global debate around sexual and reproductive rights has been heavily women-focused. In Chile, men are still largely invisible when it comes to child rearing: public policies have focused primarily on the relationship between mothers and children, and women are considered to have prime responsibility for child-rearing.
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    Promoting Men's Participation in Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes, Summary of the Final Report - Nicaragua

    Nicaraguan Health Ministry, 2004
    There is now more awareness of the implications of men's attitudes and behaviours on the spread of sexually transmitted infections (including HIV/AIDS), early or unwanted pregnancies, maternal mortality, and children's social and economic neglect.
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    Men as Partners: Promoting Men's Involvement in Care and Support Activities for People Living with HIV/AIDS

    United Nations Development Programme, 2003
    In South Africa, as in many parts of the world, men often act in ways that leave women and girls disproportionately shouldering the burden of providing care and support to people living with HIV/AIDS. Despite this, little has been done to date to develop interventions that explicitly encourage men to play a more active role in caring for their partners and children.
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    Nigeria: Using Gender Mainstreaming Processes to Help Protect Drinking Water Sources of the Obudu Plateau Communities in Northern Cross River State

    United Nations, 2005
    How can gender-sensitive approaches to natural resource management be implemented, particularly in contexts were women do not traditionally participate in such activities? In Nigeria, the construction of a tourist resort on the Obudu plateau led to deforestation and exacerbated pre-existing pressures on water resources and the environment.
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    The war over women's wombs escalates

    2006
    The religious right's drive to smash reproductive freedom, is bad news for all women, yet affects some groups more profoundly. Poor women are taking the hardest hits. Between 1994-2006, unwanted pregnancies in the USA rose by 29 percent for low income women; and declined 20 percent for the better off.
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    Ethiopia: FGM/C Country Profile

    2005
    Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) - which refers to practices which involve cutting away part or all of a girl's external genitalia - is a widespread practice in Ethiopia. According to this FGM/C country profile of Ethiopia, 80% of women in Ethiopia have undergone some form of cutting, and 52% of women report that at least one of their daughters has been circumcised.
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    An Assessment of Reproductive Health Needs in Ethiopia (Chapter on Gender and the Social Context of Reproductive Health)

    World Health Organization, 1999
    In the years since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, Ethiopia has begun to grapple with the need to assess a broader range of reproductive health issues. This is most notable in the creation in 1996 of its national Health Sector Development Programme - a 20-year effort to achieve universal access to essential primary health care services.

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