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  Child Soldiers: What About the Girls?

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2001

  From 1990 to 2000 girls were active in armed conflicts in at least 32 countries. Although young girls take on significant duties in conflicts, they have received scant attention.
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  Transforming our Initiatives for Gender Equality by Addressing and Involving Men and Boys: a Framework for Analysis and Action

  2004

  Leaving out boys and men from gender and development work is a recipe for failure. But how can we effectively involve men in practice? This chapter discusses a framework for addressing and involving men in gender equality initiatives, drawing on examples from the White Ribbon Campaign, a campaign that aims to engage men and boys in the struggle to end men's violence against women.
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  Working with Men and Boys to Promote Gender Equality and to End Violence Against Boys and Girls

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Interventions that treat men as the villains and women as the victims have not taken us far. Not all masculinities (or ways of being a man) are harmful to men, women and children.
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  Hitting the Target: Men and Guns

  Revcon Policy Brief, 2006

  Across cultures, most acts of violence are committed by men. Men and boys also account for the overwhelming majority of firearm-related injuries and deaths. Men often feel the need to publicly demonstrate that they are 'real men', and a gun is helpful in making this point. Recognising the link between masculinities, youth, and gun violence is not about demonising men, however.
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  The girls' stipend program in Bangladesh

  Journal of Education for International Development, 2006

  The Female Stipend Programme (FSP) created in 1982 in Bangladesh has dramatically raised the enrolment and retention of girls in secondary schools to parity with boys (at 47%). However, it has achieved less success in its other objectives: of delaying marriage, increasing contraceptive use and in reducing fertility rates.
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  Pregnancy-related school dropout and prior school performance in South Africa

  Population Council, USA, 2006

  Using data collected in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in 2001, this paper examines the factors associated with schoolgirl pregnancy, as well as the likelihood of school dropout and subsequent re-enrolment among pregnant schoolgirls.
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  Little Equals

  Espace Femmes, 2005

  Les p'tits egaux' is a tool book for the promotion of equality between girls and boys aged between 5 and 9. It is an adaptation from a training programme developed by the Canadian Directorate of Public Health Montreal-Centre in 1997. Its activities show that women, just as men, can play a great role in the society.
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  Participatory monitoring: guidelines for practitioners in the fight against human trafficking

  International Labour Organization, 2005

  Participatory Monitoring (PM) tools are used as far as possible in the International Labour Organisation's project to combat trafficking in children and women in the Mekong sub-region. This toolkit, based on materials field-tested by project staff, has been designed to help monitor the project's progress, track trafficking and identify good practice.
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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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  2004 ZIM: Comprehensive Review of Gender Issues in the Education Sector

  2004

  In Zimbabwe, key indicators on enrolment, access to, and completion in education show stagnation in educational development between 1990 and 2001. Within this, serious disparities and inequalities are revealed with gender being a key contributory factor.

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