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    Combined Third and Fourth CEDAW Periodic Reports of State Parties on Viet Nam

    United Nations, 2000
    Since 1998, Viet Nam has been implementing numerous effective measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women and girls. Laws on economic, educational, scientific, political and social issues were revised to ensure their compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
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    Gender, Conflict and Development

    World Bank, 2005
    This book highlights the gender dimensions of conflict, organised around major relevant themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, the legal framework, work, the rehabilitation of social services and community-driven development.
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    Coping with Disrupted Lives: A Study of Afghan Girls

    2002
    This study explores the practical and emotional ways in which a generation coped with the war in Afghanistan and exile in Peshawar, Pakistan. It describes the daily lives of a number of young girls and their families during the various phases of war in Kabul, and in exile across the border.
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    Focus on Gender and Peace-building: Empowerment, Gender and Peace Promotion

    2004
    This newsletter examines gender-sensitive empowerment and how it can be applied to resolve conflicts. Empowerment is a much-used expression that is deployed in different contexts. It is understood as a power-building process that aims to release people from relationships that are based on violence and dominance - including relationships between men and women - and widen their scope of action.
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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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    Gender Assessment for USAID/Morocco

    2003
    The new Country Strategy Plan (CSP) 2004-8 for USAID/Morocco has one strategic objective - to increase economic opportunities. This gender assessment provides an overview of the key gender issues in the CSP target sectors and sub-sectors.
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    Second Periodic Report to CEDAW Committee- Morocco

    United Nations, 2002
    Many rights are already guaranteed by law, and government ministries and NGOs are taking initiatives to implement these. The Secretariat of State in charge of Social Protection, Family and Children, working with the World Bank, has prepared a national strategy for integrating women into development, as part of the follow up to the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
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    Why Might Women support Religious ?Fundamentalism??

    Women for Women International, 2004
    Religious fundamentalism is often associated with men, so much so that instances of women's support for religious fundamentalism are perceived as the exception. The tendency to assume that all women stand against fundamentalism unwittingly works hand in hand with the notion of women as 'natural' universal peace-seekers, nurturers and carers.
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    Joint parenting - Lobbying in Senegal

    Famafrique, 1990
    The family code in Senegal, put in place in 1972, contains several items which discriminate against women in relation to family, health, work, the tax system, nationality and other areas. These violate the principles of equality in the national constitution and the international treaties Senegal has signed.

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