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  Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries: Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

  International Land Coalition, 2004

  Women's access to land is a fundamental factor in food security. Yet women all over the world suffer under discriminatory property and inheritance laws and customary practices which restrict their rights over the land on which they live and work. Articles 15 and 16 of CEDAW state the rights of women to property and inheritance.
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  Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers

  Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003

  For some years, awareness about the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women in situations of war and armed conflict has been growing. As a result, humanitarian aid programmes are paying more and more attention to the provision of SRH services in the field, but a more holistic and integrated approach to SRH is often still lacking.
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  Taking a Closer Look - Reflections on Methodology of Gender Evaluations with a View to African Realities and Practices of Sida's Development Cooperation

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2003

  This Annex is a basic critique of how the global strategy for mainstreaming gender equality has been adopted by donors and partner countries as universalised goals without the necessary context sensitivity. It contributes to the debate on gender mainstreaming, reflecting on the implications for the evaluation of gender equality.
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  Impacting through Media. A Guide to Using the Media in Technical Cooperation

  2003

  This publication offers practical guidelines for employing the media in development cooperation. It is based on the experience of NGOs in using media in their information, education, communication and advocacy work, as part of The German Agency for Technical Co-operation's (GTZ) Strengthening Women's Rights project.
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  Women's International Human Rights

  BRIDGE, 2003

  At the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in 1993, the international community officially recognised women's human rights as ?an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights?.
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  Statistics and Indicators on Women and Men

  United Nations, 2005

  The United Nations (UN) Statistics Division website provides statistics and indicators on women and men in six specific fields of concern: population; families; health; education; work; and politics and human rights. The data are compiled mainly from official national and international sources, as these are consistently authoritative and comprehensive.
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  A Global Outrage: Global and UK Statistics

  Amnesty International, 2005

  At least one out of every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime according to a study based on 50 surveys from around the world. Usually, the abuser is a member of her own family or someone known to her. In fact, the World Health Organization reports that up to 70 percent of female murder victims are killed by their male partners.
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  Women and HIV/AIDS: Select Facts

  2004

  Women are increasingly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Nearly 50 percent of the 38 million people living with HIV/AIDS are female, up from 41 percent in 1997. Young women are disproportionately at risk. In the United States girls account for 57 percent of new HIV infections among teenagers.
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  Gender and Sustainable Development, USAID/Morocco: Report of Two Gender Training Workshops

  2002

  In 2002 the Women in Development Technical Assistance (WIDTECH) provided a two-step gender training programme to build competence in the USAID/Morocco Mission. The first step was a training of trainers (TOT) workshop on gender analysis and facilitation skills for four USAID/Morocco project officers.
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  NGOs? Report on the Implementation of the CEDAW Convention: A Parallel Report to the Periodic Report

  2003

  This report parallels the government's second periodic report of 1999. It finds that women's struggle to reform their status has not yet yielded results. The mobilisation to reform the Code for Personal Status and to establish a code for the family which is based on more egalitarian conjugal and family relations, has been slow and faced much resistance.

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