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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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  The pleasure project: global mapping of pleasure

  The Pleasure Project, 2004

  How can a focus on pleasure help promote safer sex? The Pleasure Project mapped initiatives taken around the world which use pleasure as a primary motivation for promoting sexual health.
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  Advance social watch report 2005: unkept promises

  Social Watch, 2005

  How well are governments progressing towards achieving their promises of eradicating poverty and reaching gender equality as stated in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? According to this report these promises are largely unmet and progress is either very slow or non-existent.
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  Our Common Interest, Report of the Commission for Africa

  Commission for Africa, 2005

  This year promises to be a decisive one for Africa. In 2005, the United Nations (UN) will conduct a five-year review of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to halve world poverty (most of which is in Africa) by 2015.
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  Statistics on Women and Men in Viet Nam

  United Nations Development Programme, 2002

  This brochure provides statistics for differences between women and men in areas of: health and population; education and literacy; household composition; political representation; and labour and economic activity. Women in Vietnam suffer from inequalities in many ways.
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  Men Who Have Sex with Men and HIV in Vietnam: A Review

  Guilford Publications, New York, 2004

  Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam's urban centres are increasing in numbers and visibility. Although limited to a few surveys, the available data on MSM in Vietnam show that they are at increased risk of HIV infection due to high numbers of sexual partners, high rates of unsafe sex, and inconsistent condom use.
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  Decision of the Prime Minister of the Government on the Approval of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam by 2010

  Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 2002

  This is the official approval by the Prime Minister of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Women. This document reiterates the overall and specific objectives of the strategy and lays out the main measure for implementation.
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  Plan of Action for the Advancement of Vietnamese Women by 2005

  National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam, 2002

  The National Committee for the Advancement of Women in Viet Nam (NCFAW) developed this Plan of Action to guide implementation of the first five years of the ?National Strategy for the Advancement of Women in Vietnam by 2010?. It follows the format of the strategy - with coverage of the overall objective and its five specific objectives, including implementation arrangements.
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  A Russian Perspective

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2001

  Gender equality is an important element in the successful transition to a market economy and democratic development. Unfortunately, in the economic and political transition in Russia women have paid a higher price than men.
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  Fifth Periodic CEDAW Report of States Parties - Russian Federation

  1999

  This is Russia's fifth periodic report to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It outlines the measures taken by the Russian Federation to combat discrimination against women between 1994 and 1998.

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