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The State of World Population 1997: the Right to Choose: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health
United Nations Population Fund, 1999Gaps and failures in reproductive health care, combined with widespread discrimination and violence against women, amount to a massive violation of human rights. Denial of sexual and reproductive rights–including free choice with regard to pregnancy and childbearing–causes millions of deaths every year, and much more illness and disability.DocumentThe Control of Epidemic Dysentery in Africa: Overview, recommendations, and Checklists
Africa Bureau Information Center, USAID, 1999Provides an overview of cholera and dysentery, followed by a brief history of dysentery epidemics in Africa, the current epidemiology, and a few of the lessons learned in other parts of the world, concluding with recommendations.DocumentHealth education for mothers in developing countries: with special emphasis on the impact of health education interventions on health outcomes during the perinatal period and early infancy.
Centre for International Child Health, London, 1999The working paper had two objectives: (1) To review concisely key issues in the definition, design and evaluation of health education interventions especially with regards to mother and child health (2) To present an annotated bibliography of studies drawn from a literature reviewAlso available in Word format: http://194.82.244.65/acroread/bolam.docDocumentExporting to the Republic of South Africa: an overview
International Trade Centre, 1997The potential for intra-African trade is considerable and exceeds several times the current low levels of trade among African countries.DocumentTrading Opportunitites in Southern Africa: a statistical analysis
International Trade Centre, 1997This paper aims at identifying those sectors and product groups which have the greatest potential for imports into SACU from the other members of SADC: Angola, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.DocumentUNICEF statistical tables on child / social welfare
United Nations Children's Fund, 1999Country level statistical data on major child welfare issues, including life expectancy, crude birth and death rates, infant mortality rates, child growth rates, ORT usage, maternal mortality, fertility rate, GNP, education (enrollment rates, literacy, attendance), access to drinking waterDocumentTrafficking and prostitution: the growing exploitation of migrant women from central and Eastern Europe
International Organization for Migration, 1995The trafficking of women from East to West is increasing rapidly. This form of exploitation and abuse of human rights is no longer confined to women from developing countries. Increasingly women from Central and Eastern European countries are entering Western Europe where they are forced or trapped into prostitution.DocumentIndonesian Family Life Surveys (IFLS)
RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999The Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) is a household and community-facility survey conducted in Indonesia in 1993 by Lembaga Demografi of the University of Indonesia, and RAND. The IFLS was conducted in 13 provinces, encompassing about 83 percent of the Indonesian population and much of its heterogeneity.DocumentMalaysian Family Life Surveys (MFLS)
RAND Center for the Study of Aging, 1999The MFLS comprise a pair of surveys with partially overlapping samples, designed by RAND and administered in Peninsular Malaysia in 1976-77 (MFLS-1) and 1988-89 (MFLS-2). Fieldwork for MFLS-1 was carried out by Survey Research Malaysia, Sdn. Bhd., and for MFLS-2 by the National Population and Family Development Board of Malaysia.Pages