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    Women, War and Peace: The Independent Experts: Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Women's Role in Peace-Building

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002
    While women are effective agents of peace, they still have little access to power and peace negotiations. Women and girls are increasingly at risk of sexual violence, torture and HIV-infection in contemporary conflict situations, yet the perpetrators almost always go unpunished.
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    Conflict, Post-conflict, and HIV/AIDS - the Gender Connections: Women, War and HIV/AIDS: West Africa and the Great Lakes

    World Bank, 2001
    What are the connections between conflict, HIV/AIDS and gender? This project conducted in Rwanda and Sierra Leone shows how gender inequalities among refugees and internally displaced populations significantly increase vulnerability to HIV infection. The project used a community-based approach which incorportate an outreach programme by AIDS educators taken from the refugee population.
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    March 8th, Women's Day, Eight Goals to Shine a Little Brighter

    Sud Quotidien, 2003
    In 2003 UNIFEM Senegal celebrated International Women's Day on the theme of "Gender and the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs)". The MDGs are eight goals which governments committed themselves to at the millennium summit in September 2000.
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    Progress of the World's Women 2002: Volume 2: Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2003
    At the Millenium Summit in September 2000, the largest ever gathering of world leaders agreed to the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and gender inequality.
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    Gender-based violence: emerging issues in programs serving displaced populations

    Reproductive Health for Refugees Consortium, 2002
    What strategies are available to address gender-based violence (GBV) among displaced populations? This book offers reflections and lessons learned working with GBV programmes in 12 countries: Angola, Bosnia (Serb Republic), Eritrea, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand and Zambia.
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    Female Genital Mutilation, Programmes to Date: What Works and What Doesn?t, A Review

    World Health Organization, 1999
    This document provides an extensive review of programmes to combat FGM. Beliefs around FGM are described as a ?mental map? which incorporates beliefs and practices that cause the whole community to view women's external genitalia as potentially dangerous and harmful to family and community if not eliminated.
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    Gender and HIV/AIDS Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    Why, after 20 years of international responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic are infection rates still on the increase? Why are the numbers of women living with HIV increasing faster than the number of men? HIV/AIDS is not only driven by gender inequality - it makes gender inequality worse, putting women, men and children further at risk.
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    CEDAW and Women's Health in International Relations

    Netherlands Humanist Committee on Human Rights, 2003
    This report describes the initiative of the Humanist Committee on Human Rights to develop a women's human rights impact assessment instrument for international relations, using the CEDAW. Women's right to health is chosen as a pilot theme.
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    Circumcision with Words: Fighting FGM in Kenya

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2001
    In 1993, due to concern about her own daughter, Annicetta Kiriga, from the village of Tharaka, just outside of Nairobi became involved in Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO), an organisation which researched and took action on FGM in Kenya.
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    Key Issues on Gender and HIV/AIDS in China

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Inequality, including gender inequality has fuelled the HIV/AIDS epidemic globally. The UNIFEM publication 'Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic' identifies how gender discrimination and inequality have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS, and how meeting CEDAW commitments to end gender inequality can help turn the HIV/AIDS tide.

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