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  Responses to young children in post-emergency situations

  Bernard van Leer Foundation, 2005

  This edition of Early Childhood Matters brings together a compilation of experiences from organisations working in the field and their responses to emergencies, in particular focusing on the tsunami.
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  The media and children's rights

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2005

  This guidebook was written to assist media professionals and others to consider how the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child might impact upon the way children are represented in and by the media.
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  The Department of Social Development (DoSD) as a national structure to addressHIV/AIDS

  Eldis HIV and AIDS Resource Guide, 2005

  This brief note outlines how the South African Department for Social Development (DoSD) plan to address HIV and AIDS.
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  Lancet chronic diseases 4: preventing chronic diseases in China

  The Lancet, 2005

  This article, the fourth in the Lancet series on chronic diseases, focuses on China. It reports that chronic diseases now account for an estimated 80 per cent of deaths and 70 per cent of disability-adjusted life-years lost in China.
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  Getting Ghanaian women to ride bicycles

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Rural women and children in Africa carry heavy loads many times a day and have little money to pay fares on buses or taxis.
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  Social protection of the elderly in Swaziland

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  This study investigates the vulnerability of the elderly in Swaziland and highlights the extent to which selected programmes respond to the needs of the elderly.The findings of the research reveal that:in the absence of adequate pension, most of the elderly rely on farming and in times of drought, they become vulnerable to hunger.
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  Disability, poverty, and schooling in developing countries: results from 11 household surveys

  World Bank, 2005

  This paper analyses the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their household, and their school participation.
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  Bringing the hardest to reach into the classroom

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  Are the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of universal completion of primary education and ending gender inequality in education by 2015 achievable? What do parents, governments, donors and civil society have to do to build effective and equal education systems?
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  Can leprosy be eliminated by a single global campaign?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004

  In 1991 the World Health Assembly set a target to eliminate leprosy by the year 2000. The disease, which still caries a stigma, damages the skin and nerve endings and leads to ulcers and disability. A major World Health Organisation campaign has provided antibiotics to treat the disease in a number of countries. However a number of new cases have appeared in previously low priority countries.
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  Educating children with disabilities: who are the children with disabilities?

  Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2005

  This briefing paper discusses the classification of children with disabilities in educational systems, including how such classifications vary across countries.

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