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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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  New insights on preventing child marriage: a global analysis of factors and programs

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007

  One in every seven girls in developing countries marries before the age of 15 and nearly half are expected to marry by their 20th birthday, according to this report.
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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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  Press Conference on the Preliminary Results: Domestic Violence Survey - 2005

  Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Gaza and West Bank, 2006

  How vulnerable are women in the Palestinian Territories to violence in the home? In this press release and set of statistical tables, preliminary findings of a 2005 domestic violence survey show that 23.3 percent of ever married women are exposed to physical violence from their husbands. 61.7 percent report psychological abuse, while 10.5 percent report sexual violence.
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  Girls in Canada 2005

  2005

  What is the situation of girls in Canada? This study focuses on girls from the time of birth up to the age of 18. It identifies their state of well/ill-being compared to boys, the major challenges girls in Canada face, and makes recommendations for programming. In early childhood, girls start off better than boys.
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  Gender Equality and Child Labour: A Participatory Tool for Facilitators

  International Labour Organization, 2004

  Conventional gender roles place various constraints and opportunities on what women and men are expected to be and do, and this is reflected in the types of child labour that boys and girls take part in.
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  Effect of a Participatory Intervention with Women's Groups on Birth Outcomes in Nepal: Cluster-Randomised Trial

  The Lancet, 2004

  How can high rates of infant mortality in developing countries be more effectively tackled? In Kathmandu, Nepal, a team from Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA) undertook a low-cost, community-based participatory intervention with women's groups to test the impact of peer education on birth outcomes in an economically poor rural population.
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  The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Violence Against the Girl Child - Report of the UN Secretary-General

  2006

  Discrimination and violence against the girl child persist in all parts of the world. This report has been prepared in accordance with the programme of work of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for 2007-2009, which identified ?The elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child? as the priority theme for the Commission's fifty-first session.
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  Children's Property and Inheritance Rights and Their Livelihoods: The Context of HIV and AIDS in Southern and East Africa

  2006

  There are 34 million orphans in Africa, of which 11 million are AIDS orphans (nearly 80 per cent of the world's total). Extended family support systems, which once absorbed and assumed care for orphans, have become weaker in recent years, as families have become increasingly urbanised, industrialised and nuclear.
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  State of the World's children 2007: women and children: the double dividend of gender equality

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2006

  'The State of the World's Children 2007' examines the discrimination and disempowerment that women face throughout their lives - and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls.

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