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  Women's Reproductive Rights in Senegal: A Shadow Report

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2001

  This report shadows the periodic report of the government of Senegal to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights during its 26th session. Principal areas of concern are access to reproductive health care, family planning, abortion, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections, violence against women, female genital mutilation (FGM), and inequalities in marriage, work and education.
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  Faites vos Jeux, Messieurs! Or A Case Study on the Impact of GATS in Bulgaria

  BRIDGE, 2004

  This study looks at the long-term impact the recent privatisation of the water supply in Sofia Bulgaria has on women. It shows how human development and gender equality were compromised as part of the required liberalisation under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
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  Gender Profile of the Conflict in Sri Lanka

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  Since 1983, Sri Lanka has experienced a civil ethnic conflict in the Northern and Eastern provinces that has resulted in life-threatening and traumatic experiences for women; loss of life, rape and being searched by armed groups are daily occurrences. Many civilian women are now household heads due to the estimated 60,000 people killed and the 800,000 families displaced.
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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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  The public budget and maternal mortality in Mexico: an overview of the experience

  International Budget Partnership, 2004

  This report comes out of a collaborative project to evaluate the allocation of public resources to the reduction of maternal mortality. The study's findings showed that basic health services were insufficient to face the challenge of reducing maternal mortality among the poor.
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  Shadow Report: Implementation by the Russian Federation of UN Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

  Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations, 2001

  This shadow report from the Consortium of Women's Non-governmental Associations based in Moscow is critical of the Russian Federation's implementation of CEDAW in practice. Despite ratifying the CEDAW and having in place constitutional protection for gender equality, and the existence of a National Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women, practice still lags far behind.
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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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  Integrating a Gender Perspective into the Delivery of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

  2004

  The Programa de Coordinaci¢n en Salud Integral (PROCOSI), a network of NGOs working for health and development in Bolivia, launched a Gender Programme in 2000 with funding from the USAID Mission in Bolivia. The aim was to integrate a gender perspective into NGOs delivering reproductive and sexual health services.
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  Social and Cultural Factors which Facilitate the Transmission of HIV in Bolivia

  BRIDGE, 2002

  If we are going to attack the causes and not just the effects of HIV/AIDS we need to look at the cultural and social aspects, as well as the medical. Cultural values and social norms which facilitate transmission in Bolivia include taboos around talking about sexuality, which is reinforced by religious associations of sex with sin and of women as virginal.
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  Women's Reproductive Rights in Bolivia: A Shadow Report

  2001

  This is a shadow report written and compiled by the "Oficina Juridica para la Mujer" or Women's Law Office of Cochabamba, Bolivia. The purpose of this report is to provide a complement or alternative to the official government report of Bolivia to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

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