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  Global Participation Net (GP-NET)

  Discussion list on participatory approaches sponsored by USAID's Participation Initiative.
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  Healthlink Worldwide [formerly Appropriate Health Resources and Technologies Action Group ] (AHRTAG)

  NGO aiming to strengthen primary health care, disability services and community based rehabilitation in the South by maximising the use and impact of information, providing training and resources and
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  Hope for the girl child: a briefing paper to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women at its 51st session

  World Vision, 2007

  This briefing paper was prepared as a contribution to the meeting of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on “The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child”, conducted from 26 February to 9 March 2007.
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  Clean computers campaign: report on labour rights in the computer industry in China

  Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, 2006

  This briefing highlights findings from an investigation of 13 Shenzhen electronics factories producing components for many well-known brand names.
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  Child soldiers in Sierra Leone: experiences, implications and strategies for reintegration

  Child Rights Information Network, 2005

  This document reports on a project that engaged former child soldiers as participant researchers examining the experiences and psychosocial effects of children’s involvement in armed conflict in Sierra Leone.
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  A health handbook for women with disabilities

  Hesperian Foundation, 2007

  Women with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to poverty, exploitation, abuse, and social marginalisation. This handbook is aimed at helping women with disabilities better care for themselves, improve their general health, their capabilities and self-reliance, and their ability to participate more effectively in their communities.
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  Social security and retirement reform: a second discussion paper

  National Treasury, Government of South Africa, 2007

  South Africa’s social security reform challenge is unusual in several respects. A redistributive social assistance programme is in place and there are well-established occupational and individual retirement funding schemes, but South Africa lacks a basic, pooled, mandatory contributory system.
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  Building women into peace

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Peace-building has become a major industry since the 1990s. The international community has shifted its focus from ceasefires to the active creation of democratic societies. But international peace-building efforts regularly ignore the needs of women, despite the use of ‘women’s rights’ as justification for intervention.
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  Neglected tropical diseases demand international attention

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  International public health efforts focus on control of the ‘big three’ infectious diseases: HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. Other tropical diseases receive much less attention. Two papers urge support for rapid impact interventions to control these neglected diseases, integrated into programmes tackling the big three.
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  Feminist Africa 6: subaltern sexualities

  Feminist Africa, 2006

  Current writings on sexuality have begun to challenge dominant understandings of masculinity and femininity in Africa. Yet much of this writing examines only how sexuality underwrites heterosexual masculine and feminine identities. The contributors to this issue of Feminist Africa seek to explore the diversity of sexualities that exist in Africa.

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