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    Reducing Poverty and Social Exclusion: Czech Republic

    United Nations Development Programme, 2004
    To what extent has the Czech Republic achieved the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) particularly those that relate to gender issues? At first glance, the Czech Republic appears to have fulfilled the majority of the goals.
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    Whispers to voices: gender and social transformation in Bangladesh

    World Bank Publications, 2008
    Why has Bangladesh been hailed as 'a shining new example' of a poor country achieving impressive gains in gender equality? According to this World Bank report, Bangladesh has made great progress in achieving gender equality and enhancing the status of women.
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    Progress Report on Women and Gender Development

    Tanzania Ministry of Community Development Gender and Children, 2003
    This report maps progress on Tanzania's commitment to tackling gender inequality in light of the government's signing and ratification of international and regional agreements including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Gender and Development Declaration by Heads of State and Government of Southern African Development Corporation (SADC).
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    Gender: Kosova's Other Challenge

    Bridgewater State College, 2005
    In addition to resolving ongoing ethnic tensions and independence issues, this paper argues that there is another major challenge Kosova must address to realise social justice and prosperity: gender equality. It examines the extent of differences in roles between the genders in Kosova, using data from several thousand household surveys conducted in the first half of 2004.
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    Gender assessment for Malawi

    Statistics Norway, 2007
    This report highlights gender disparities in Malawi and makes suggestions on how to improve the situation for women. It focuses on six key areas: education, work and employment, agriculture, female-headed households, violence and HIV/AIDS. The main findings of are:
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    UNIFEM Afganistan Fact Sheet 2007

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    What is women's situation in Afghanistan in 2007? This factsheet presents key statistics in a number of key areas, including political participation, labour force participation, health, education, marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world, and a low female life expectancy of just 44 years.
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    World Bank Gender Stats: Iraq

    World Bank, 2007
    GenderStats is the World Bank's database of country gender statistics. Its pages on Iraq present sex disaggregated figures on size of population, life expectancy at birth, labour force participation, education and health. The web site also features an ?empowerment table?, which monitors the number of women representatives in national and local government in Iraq.
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    Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007

    2007
    Girls are getting a raw deal. They face double discrimination on account of their gender and their age, and in many societies they remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. 'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007' is the first in a series of annual reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.
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    Providing New Opportunities to Adolescent Girls in Socially Conservative Settings:The Ishraq Program in Rural Upper Egypt

    Population Council, 2007
    Ishraq' is a multidimensional programme launched in 2001 to respond to the unmet needs of out-of-school girls aged 13-15; among the most disadvantaged adolescents in rural Upper Egypt, in one of the country's poorest regions.
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    Proposed Indicators to measure the targets set by the international Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002
    This document is part of a proposal being developed to generate a system of indicators to measure progress towards meeting the objectives of the Action Plan of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Latin America and the Caribbean. A regional system of indicators is proposed to measure progress and identify inequalities among the various population groups.

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