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  WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against Women

  World Health Organization, 2005

  Violence against women by their male partners is common, wide-spread and far-reaching in its impact. For too long hidden behind closed doors and not mentioned in public discussions, such violence can no longer be denied as part of everyday life for millions of women.
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  Working with Men on Gender, Sexuality, Violence and Health: Trainer's Manual

  Sahaj, Sahayog India and Tathapi, 2005

  This manual is a resource for trainers working with men and boys around issues of citizenship, rights, gender, sexuality, violence and health in India. The content is guided by a social justice and equity perspective and is 'male-centred' in its approach. There are six distinct modules: Equity and Equality, Gender, Sexuality, Health, Violence, and Facilitation Skills.
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  Female genital mutilation / cutting: a statistical exploration

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2006

  Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a traditional practice with severe health consequences for girls and women. It occurs mainly in countries along a belt stretching from Senegal in West Africa to Somalia in East Africa and to Yemen in the Middle East, but it is also practised in some parts of South-East Asia.
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  Sector wide approaches: opportunities and challenges for gender equity in health

  Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 2002

  This resource book, which is composed of papers presented at the Women's World Conference in 2002, explores the challenges that new Sector Wide Approaches (SWAps) pose to health sector development. The pack is structured around three key questions:. How can a facilitative institutional environment be created for gender mainstreaming in SWAps?
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  Family Planning Policies in Developing Countries: from Malthusianism to Feminism?

  Lien Social et Politique, 2002

  Family planning programmes instituted in the 1950s were intended to reduce fertility rates. Women were the target, sometimes in extreme ways. In response, women's movements, from community based to transnational ones, developed programmes for women's reproductive health and asserted women's right to control over their bodies.
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  Taking gender equality seriously: making progress, meeting new challenges

  United Nations Development Programme, 2006

  UNDP and its partners have had mixed success with gender mainstreaming. For UNDP, as for others, mainstreaming has too often meant that everyone - and thus no one in particular - has responsibility for promoting women's empowerment. Nonetheless, there are many success stories throughout the organisation where mainstreaming has yielded positive results.
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  Gender mainstreaming strategy for the China-UK HIV/AIDS prevention and care project

  Siyanda, 2003

  International experience has demonstrated that gender must be addressed if HIV/ AIDS prevention and care is to be effective. Overall, the China-UK HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Project is moving in the right direction on gender by aiming for participation and empowerment of primary stakeholders.
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  Fifth Periodic Report on Implementation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (Japan)

  Government of Japan, 2002

  Japan's 5th periodic report on the implementation of the ?Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women? (CEDAW) covers the period May 1998 to April 2002. It was put together in consultation with a wide range of civil society groups.
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  New forms of citizenship: democracy, family, and community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Oxfam, 2003

  In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, many families live in illegal land occupations (favelas), housing projects and working-class suburbs. In the daily lives of most of these families, little change has been experienced under democracy as opposed to dictatorship. For some, life is more defined by violence related to drug-trafficking.
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  Adolescent Sexuality Education and Women's Visibility: the Linkages from the Girls? Power Initiative Nigeria Experience

  BRIDGE, 2005

  The Girl Power Initiative (GPI) in Nigeria takes girls through a three year sexuality education programme aimed at promoting their personal empowerment, sexual health and leadership skills. This paper incorporates the voices of GPI girls, GPI graduates, their parents and community members to demonstrate the impact of sex education on girls in Nigeria.

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