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    Albanian Masculinities, Sex work and Migration: Homosexuality, AIDS and other Moral Threats

    University College London Press, 2004
    Extensive interviews with Albanian migrants, including sex workers, in Italy and Greece, provide the groundwork for this piece. Particularly in the early post-communist years, migration to undertake sex work emerged as an important strategy of survival for many Albanian young men, despite the stigma associated with homosexuality.
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    A Review of Gender Issues in the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica

    World Bank, 2002
    This report examines the effect of gender on socio-economic outcomes in three Caribbean countries: the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. Organized in three separate country notes, it covers: demographics, health and reproductive health, violence, education, labor and agriculture. The report is part of a large effort aimed at establishing a strategic social agenda in the region.
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    Measuring empowerment in practice: structuring analysis and framing indicators

    World Bank, 2005
    The definition of empowerment used in this paper is a person's capacity to make choices and transform these choices into desired actions and outcomes. The extent to which a person is empowered is influenced by personal agency (the capacity to make a purposive choice) and opportunity structure (the institutional context in which choice is made).
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    The Status of Women in India, Kenya, Sudan and Tunisia

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2004
    The institutional framework of a country plays a determining role in the well-being of the women who live in it. This paper examines the status of women in four countries: India, Kenya, Sudan and Tunisia.
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    Men Who Have Sex with Men and HIV in Vietnam: A Review

    Guilford Publications, New York, 2004
    Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Vietnam's urban centres are increasing in numbers and visibility. Although limited to a few surveys, the available data on MSM in Vietnam show that they are at increased risk of HIV infection due to high numbers of sexual partners, high rates of unsafe sex, and inconsistent condom use.
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    Analysis of the Commission for Africa Report

    BRIDGE, 2005
    This follow-up to the United Kingdom (UK) Gender and Development Network's (GADN) submission to the Commission for Africa consultation process reviews and critiques the extent to which gender concerns are reflected in the final report of the Commission. Although the Commission's report recognises that women are a key part of the solution to Africa's problems, significant gaps remain.
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    Worldwide Joint Submission to the Commission for Africa

    United Kingdom Gender and Development Network, 2004
    This short report is a submission to the consultation process of the UK's Commission for Africa. In February 2004 British Prime Minister Tony Blair set up the Commission, aimed at providing a new focus and a comprehensive set of policies for a strong and prosperous Africa.
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    Assessing the Gender Impact of the Community based Animal Health Programme in Southern Sudan

    Veterinaires sans Frontieres, Belgium, 2002
    How does the position of women in the Nuer Community affect the division of labour in livestock activities? In southern Sudan many communities are chronically food insecure with little access to livestock and its products (e.g. milk and blood meat).
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    Sudanese women’s priorities and recommendations to the Oslo Donors’ Conference on Sudan

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005
    This statement was issued at the Oslo Donor's Conference on Sudan in April 2005. Its authors comprise Sudanese women delegates from all regions, including representatives from the Government of Sudan, the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), civil society and academic institutions.
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    Review of the Implementation of the BPfA Outcome Documents of the Special Session of the General Assembly: Report of the SG

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2004
    Questionnaire responses from Member States provide the basis for this United Nations ten-year-on review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).

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