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  Focus. Empowering Women

  United Nations Development Programme, 2005

  The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) supports Palestinian women through a wide range of initiatives - reviewed in this magazine. Training on gender and women's rights and assistance in gender mainstreaming is provided by UNDP to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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  Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of Gender-Based Violence at Schools

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006

  To what extent do adolescent girls in South Africa experience gender-based violence in their heterosexual relationships at school? What is being done to support victims and change attitudes towards violence?
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  Improving women's lives: World Bank actions since Beijing

  World Bank, 2006

  The World Bank is committed to helping member countries fulfil the Beijing Platform for Action and recognises that gender equality is critical to development and poverty reduction. The World Bank's emphasis on gender increased after the 1995 Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women.
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  Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism and Sexual Diversity

  Pluto Press, 2005

  Is it possible to move beyond the male-female gender binary system?' This book begins with this question.
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  Chilean Women. Trends in the Last Decade (1992-2002 Census)

  Servicio Nacional de la Mujer, 2004

  This study uses the information and data from the 2002 National Census to analyse how women and men interact in Chile in different domains. The aim is to unpack some aspects of social reality to identify the structural gender inequalities that affect all people, but especially women, and to use the findings to inform public policy in order to enable real change in gender relations.
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  Millennium Development Goals: Bangladesh Progress Report (Extract on MDG3)

  United Nations Country Team in Bangladesh, 2005

  How far is Bangladesh from achieving the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) on gender equality and women's empowerment? Female enrolment in primary school has increased steadily since 1992. However, a large disparity continues to exist both at the tertiary level of education and in terms of male and female literacy rates.
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  Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Thirty-first session: Consideration of Fifth Periodic Report of Bangladesh. Summary records of the 653rd and 654th meetings

  2004

  Resources allocated to the Ministry of Women and Children's Affairs in Bangladesh have increased fivefold in the last three years. This was one of the achievements flagged up by the delegation from Bangladesh as they presented their Fifth Periodic Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
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  Shadow Report to the Fifth Periodic Report of the Government of Bangladesh

  Steps Towards Development, 2004

  Has the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh delivered on their promises as a signatory of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
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  Girls and science: a training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 2006

  What practical guidance and training is available for educators to help redress the under-representation and under-achievement of girls in science and technology subjects in African countries?
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  Women in Bolivarian Venezuela Part 2: The Bolivarian Response to the Feminization of Poverty in Venezuela

  Venezuela Analysis, 2005

  Innovative social and economic strategies are necessary to combat the growing incidence and severity of poverty among women in Venezuela. Legislative change to fight gender inequality, a root cause of the predominantly female poverty, is only the start.

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