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  Abstinence-Only Education (in the USA): Fact Sheet

  Planned Parenthood Federation of America Incorporated, 2001

  Since the 1980s Christian right-wing fundamentalist groups in the USA have been lobbying for abstinence-only-before-marriage education instead of sex education in US schools. Their efforts have met with some success.
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  Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sexuality

  Harvard University Press, 2002

  This book is based on interviews with teenage girls in the USA about how they experience sexual desire. All of the girls were highly aware of the dangers surrounding sex including getting a bad reputation, pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, rape and violence. They have received these messages from parents and in school.
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  Gender and the Peacekeeping Military: A View from Bosnian Women's Organisations

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  What are the consequences for the work of women's NGOs in regions that host armed international peacekeepers? This chapter draws out observations and potential policy lessons from a study conducted with eight women's organisations located in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Sprska.
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  How to Guide: [Sexual and Gender-Based Violence] SGV Programme Monitoring and Evaluation

  Health and Community Development Section, 2000

  Programmes that tackle sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) in refugee settings need to take into account a number of issues and problems unique to this context. Some of the main problems arise from the need to bring together many diverse actors who will work on the same case, such as mental and physical health care workers, the police, government workers and legal advisers/officers.
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  Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.
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  Beyond Victims and Villains: Addressing Sexual Violence in the Education Sector

  Panos Institute, London, 2003

  Gender-based violence has physical, sexual, and psychological consequences, and is frequently the cause of ill health and even death among women aged 15 to 44. Younger women appear to be particularly at risk. Gender violence worldwide often remains unaddressed. It is rarely talked about within schools and universities, which are often perceived to be the safest places.
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  The gender guide: for health communication programs

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  How do gender roles prevent people accessing healthcare and information? How can a gender perspective make the communication of health messages more effective? This guide aimed at health professionals, programme managers and implementing staff shows how health messages must be suited to specific contexts. Such messages have the potential to reinforce or challenge social norms and behaviours.
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  Keeping mothers alive - monitoring maternal mortality in Tanzania

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  In the 1990s, Tanzania adopted a strategy to reduce maternal mortality based on raising the status of women, increasing health education, and improving access to family planning. The private health sector also began to play an important role in improving maternity services.
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  Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

  Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003

  The goal of this project was to assist illiterate and out-of-school adolescent girls in making informed decisions regarding their reproductive health and rights. The Aamaa Milan Kendra (AMK or Mothers' Club), an NGO set up in 1999 in Nepal, has been supporting activities that help adolescent girls challenge gender inequity and expand their life options.
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  Gender and Armed Conflict: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This collection of resources on gender and armed conflict sheds light on how gender inequality intersects with armed conflict and its aftermath, resulting in gender-specific disadvantage that is often overlooked.

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