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  A Gender Review in Education, Turkey 2003

  2003

  Boys benefit more than girls from educational services in Turkey. Progress was made with the implementation of the Basic Education Program 1997, which saw girls' enrolment at all levels of education increase. However, girls still face problems of access to education due mostly to physical distance, and financial and social barriers.
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  New forms of citizenship: democracy, family, and community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Oxfam, 2003

  In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, many families live in illegal land occupations (favelas), housing projects and working-class suburbs. In the daily lives of most of these families, little change has been experienced under democracy as opposed to dictatorship. For some, life is more defined by violence related to drug-trafficking.
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  Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

  Oxfam, 2003

  One of the greatest barriers to achieving full citizenship rights for women is culture. If development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of ?culture? that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.
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  Women, nationality and citizenship

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  In the majority of cases, nationality is crucial to the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. This has significant implications for those who do not have nationality such as stateless persons and refugees. However, looking at nationality also reveals numerous gender discriminations.
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  Advancing Reproductive Health as a Human Right: Progress toward Safe Abortion Care in Selected Asian Countries since ICPD

  IPAS, 2004

  Nearly 70,000 women die every year as a result of unsafe abortions, 50 percent of these in Asia. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), 1994, addressed abortion related maternal death as an international public health concern. Outcomes of the ICPD included agreement that post abortion care (PAC) should be available where abortion was legal.
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  From Reproductive Health to Sexual Rights: Achievements and Future Challenges

  Research and Analysis Working Group, 1997

  The language of reproductive health, gender and sexuality is included in international programmes of action such as that of the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo 1994). The term ?reproductive rights? initially linked to the struggle for the right to safe, legal abortion and contraception was, in the 1990s, brought within the human rights framework.
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  The Human Rights Education Program for Women (HREP) Utilizing State Resources to Promote Women's Human Rights in Turkey

  New Tactics in Human Rights Project, 2005

  This notebook uses the case of Turkey to show how building collaborative relationships with government institutions can advance human rights education. Women for Women's Human Rights (WWHR)-New Ways, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Turkey gained the support and use of government resources for furthering human rights education of women at the local level.
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  Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues in Development: a Study of Swedish Policy and Administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in International Development Cooperation

  2005

  Homosexual and transgender persons are often excluded from international sexual and reproductive health work. This report is based on a study of Swedish policy and administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) issues in international development cooperation. It is the first report of its kind to be conducted by a governmental donor organisation.
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  A Brief Overview of Women's Movement(s) In Turkey

  Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 1997

  Since the Ottoman Empire a variety of women's groups have sought to improve the rights of women in Turkey. Issues tackled have included the right to divorce and the prohibition of polygamous and arranged marriages. More recent history shows that at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Quran formed the basis of family law and this heavily influenced women's status.
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  We Have Reproductive Rights

  Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 2001

  This booklet underlines the fact that women's rights related to reproductivity and the body are human rights. The text consists of information on methods of birth control, abortion and infertility, and cautions women on the need to be aware of and demand information about the potential effects of these methods on their health.

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