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  Gender and Armed Conflict: Overview Report

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  In this report, which forms part of the Cutting Edge Pack on gender and armed conflict, the impact of armed conflict on gender relations, and the distinct ways that both women and men are affected, is explored. It highlights the gender-specific disadvantages experienced by women and men that are denied by conventional interpretations of armed conflict and post-conflict reconstruction processes.
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  Adolescent and youth reproductive health in Jordan: status, issues, policies, and programs

  US Agency for International Development, 2003

  This assessment of adolescent reproductive health in Jordan looks at the social context and gender socialisation that set girls and boys on separate paths in terms of life expectations, educational attainment, labour force participation, and duties in the household.
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  Sexuality - a Super Force: Young People, Sexuality and Rights in the era of HIV/AIDS

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002

  "Sex is Good - Sex is Joy - Sex is Fun - Sex is Love - Sex is Power - Protected Sex is Life!" This is the message of this booklet, which argues that sexuality is natural and needed for procreation, and sexual drive is important for intimacy and pleasure. Many young people have sex during their teens, whether their parents know this or not.
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  Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management: A Practical Journey to Sustainability

  2003

  This guide serves as a comprehensive and practical tool to help project managers, gender specialists and researchers to mainstream gender into water management. Mainstreaming gender in this area is critical to reaching the Millenium Development Goals.
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  The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  How do social relations change as a result of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction? This collection of essays links the experiences of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H), with that of the Netherlands, a country that deployed a large peacekeeping force in the war-stricken area.
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  Development Myths Around Sex and Sexualities in the South

  BRIDGE, 2003

  In development representations of the South, sexuality is either ignored, or discussed only in relation to disease and violence, or reproductive decision making based on material interests.
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  Bearers, Buyers and Bureaucrats: the Missing Social World in Gender and Water

  BRIDGE, 2003

  Despite several decades of concern for gender in the water sector, progress towards gender equitable practices has been patchy in the extreme.
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  With the People, For the People: Gonoshasthaya Kendra Bangladesh (The People's Health Centre)

  One World Action, 2003

  At a time when the benefits of development policies often only reach small, urban elites, how can development organisations better help with the problems faced by excluded and vulnerable populations such as women and children? This report outlines the work of Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK), or The People's Health Centre, in Bangladesh.
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  Guidelines on ethical participatory research with HIV positive women

  International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS, 2004

  The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) strongly believes that HIV positive women should, where possible, take part themselves in research regarding women and the HIV virus. In this 12-page booklet, ICW presents guidelines for researchers working with HIV positive women to support them to employ inclusive processes. The booklet recommends establishing a ?stakeholder?
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  Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

  Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002

  This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.

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