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  Working from within: culturally sensitive approaches in UNFPA programming

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  Changing attitudes, behaviours and laws - especially around gender relations - has proved to be a complex undertaking which demands a great deal of sensitivity to local social and cultural dynamics.
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  Engendering the Bureaucracy? Challenges and Opportunities for Mainstreaming Gender in Ministries of Health under Sector-wide Approaches

  2005

  The impetus for and process of gender mainstreaming in Sector-wide Approaches (SWAps) in the Ministries of Health in Uganda, Ghana, Malawi and Mozambique are explored in this Health, Policy and Planning Journal article.
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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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  Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers

  Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003

  For some years, awareness about the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women in situations of war and armed conflict has been growing. As a result, humanitarian aid programmes are paying more and more attention to the provision of SRH services in the field, but a more holistic and integrated approach to SRH is often still lacking.
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  Dreams & desires: sexual and reproductive health experiences of HIV positive women

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004

  HIV positive women want sex, love and children just as much as anyone else. This is one clear message from these personal accounts by 13 positive women from Bolivia, Nepal, Kenya, Ukraine, Nigeria, Thailand, Swaziland, England, Honduras, South Africa, Belarus, Iran, and Sudan.
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  Special Report of the World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics - Focusing on Sex-disaggregated Statistics on Population, Births and Deaths

  United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2005

  The Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, requested producers of statistics to generate and disseminate sex-disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation. In response to these demands, the United Nations Statistics Division is preparing a publication The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics, to be released in September 2005.
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  A Global Outrage: Global and UK Statistics

  Amnesty International, 2005

  At least one out of every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime according to a study based on 50 surveys from around the world. Usually, the abuser is a member of her own family or someone known to her. In fact, the World Health Organization reports that up to 70 percent of female murder victims are killed by their male partners.
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  Women and HIV/AIDS: Select Facts

  2004

  Women are increasingly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Nearly 50 percent of the 38 million people living with HIV/AIDS are female, up from 41 percent in 1997. Young women are disproportionately at risk. In the United States girls account for 57 percent of new HIV infections among teenagers.
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  NGOs as Partners on the Way to Accelerate the Implementation of the Platform for Action: Report of the NGO Forum

  2004

  In December 2004 the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) held a ten-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA). In preparation for this meeting the NGO Working Group on Women for the UNECE region organised an NGO Forum.

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