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  Integrating a Gender Perspective into the Delivery of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

  2004

  The Programa de Coordinaci¢n en Salud Integral (PROCOSI), a network of NGOs working for health and development in Bolivia, launched a Gender Programme in 2000 with funding from the USAID Mission in Bolivia. The aim was to integrate a gender perspective into NGOs delivering reproductive and sexual health services.
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  Social and Cultural Factors which Facilitate the Transmission of HIV in Bolivia

  BRIDGE, 2002

  If we are going to attack the causes and not just the effects of HIV/AIDS we need to look at the cultural and social aspects, as well as the medical. Cultural values and social norms which facilitate transmission in Bolivia include taboos around talking about sexuality, which is reinforced by religious associations of sex with sin and of women as virginal.
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  Initial Reports of State Parties - Bolivia

  1991

  This is the Bolivian government's first and only report to the United Nations (UN) Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It outlines Bolivia's laws which protect women's rights, arranged sequentially in response to each article of the CEDAW.
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  Interculturality and Community Mobilisation to Eliminate Gender Violence. A developing experience in the municipality of El Alto

  2000

  This report deals with gender-based violence in El Alto, a predominantly urban city in the District of La Paz in Bolivia, with high levels of poverty, infant and maternal mortality and low levels of education and literacy. Gender violence happens disproportionately in the home and despite the existence of a law against domestic violence.
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  ICTs for the Empowerment of Indigenous Women in Bolivia: An Experience in OMAK

  2001

  Concerns persist around the threats to the culture, identity, language and territory of indigenous peoples, and women in this group fare the worst with reduced access to education and services. This report outlines the case of OMAK, an organisation made up of indigenous Aymara women in the District of La Paz and Oruro in Bolivia.
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  Early marriage: child spouses

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2001

  Early marriage is a violation of children's rights as it has profound psychological, physical, intellectual and emotional impacts, cutting off their chances of personal growth. This Digest looks at reasons for the perpetuation of early marriage, and its possible increase in populations under stress, highlighting poverty as a key factor.
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  Implementing adolescent reproductive rights through the Convention on the Rights of the Child

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 1999

  One in five people in the world is an adolescent. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) encompasses the human rights of people aged 0-18, hence by definition includes adolescents. Yet there remains a significant gap between provisions prescribed in the CRC and the reality of adolescents' reproductive health and lives.
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  Are wealth transfers biased against girls?: Gender differences in land inheritance and schooling investment in Ghana's western region

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This study attempts to analyse changing patterns of land transfer and ownership, as well as school investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region. Traditional inheritance rules deny land ownership rights to women.
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  The Principle of Accountability

  Women's Human Right's Net, 2004

  Accountability mechanisms can provide a way of institutionalising responsibility for addressing women's human rights violations, and point to ways forward in terms of process. Accountability has played an important role in the development of human rights law over the past decade.
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  Gender, the Millennium Development Goals, and Human Rights in the Context of the 2005 Review Process

  BRIDGE, 2004

  Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) originate in and complement human rights instruments, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and the Beijing Platform for Action (BPFA).

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