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  Local Action/Global Change: Learning about the Human Rights of Women and Girls

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1999

  This book aims to develop human rights awareness and provide information on issue-oriented actions. It includes substantive information about the human rights of women in such areas as violence, health, reproduction and sexuality, education, the global economy, the workplace, and family life.
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  Does Sex Make a Difference: An Equalities Pack for Young People on International Women's Day

  2003

  ?Get a Life!? is one message of this pack which looks at why women are underrepresented in politics in the UK. Young people, particularly girls, are encouraged to get involved in politics and representative bodies in school, community and government. Positive stories are presented of women's and young people's participation in politics.
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  Gender Budgets and Beyond: Feminist Fiscal Policy in the Context of Globalisation

  BRIDGE, 2003

  This article is part of a special issue of Oxfam's Gender and Development journal entitled Women Reinventing Globalisation, bringing together insights drawn from the Ninth International Forum of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). It focuses on the gender-blindness of macro-economic and fiscal policies.
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  Alternative Report of Cladem Peru on the Implementation in Peru of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  2002

  This shadow report, led by The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights -Peru (CLADEM-Peru), contributes to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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  CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of State Parties: Peru

  United Nations, 2001

  Peru's fifth submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) outlines the status of women in Peru. The government has faced difficulties changing attitudes that discriminate against women.
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  Cause for Great Concern: The Status of Reproductive Health in Peru

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2003

  Despite important advances in the last 40 years, are women's sexual and reproductive health rights being threatened? This newsletter, written by the Director of the San Mart¡n de Porres University Medical Clinic in Lima, Peru, highlights the ways women's sexual and reproductive rights are being undermined by the Peruvian government of Alejandro Toledo, who came to power in 2001.
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  Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health: a Subject as much for Men as for Women

  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  How are men involved in the sexual and reproductive health of women? This working paper of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) is an overview of research on the extent of men's participation in women's health.
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  Locked doors: the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in China

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  China faces what could be the largest HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. At least 1.5 million men, women and children are affected, and probably many more. During the 1990s local authorities in at least 7 provinces were complicit in transmission of HIV to hundreds of thousands or even millions of villagers through an unsafe but highly profitable blood collection industry.
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  Between men: HIV/STI prevention for men who have sex with men

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003

  Sex between men is one of the primary ways in which HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are passed on. Yet official indifference or hostility means that there are few prevention and care programmes for men who have sex with men in developing countries.
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  Guidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research

  1998

  How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.

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