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  Gender, education and child labour in Lebanon

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2004

  Studies in Lebanon indicate gender inequalities in schooling and the child labour systems. Among the poor, boys are more likely to have access to quality education, such as private schooling. However, boys are also more likely to leave school earlier than girls to assume the role of family breadwinner.
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  On Combatting Violence Against Women: The Performance of Lebanese Non-Governmental Organizations

  2002

  This paper profiles two non- governmental organizations on opposite sides of a bipolar continuum. One is a religious Muslim organization, and the other is civic and secular. They share the same coordinates of time and place (i.e. Lebanon today) but adopt opposite approaches to violence against women.
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  Follow-up to the Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties-Argentina

  2004

  The economic, social and political crisis that Argentina has suffered since mid-1998 has had a severe negative impact on the situation of women. It caused a sharp increase in the percentage of poor and extremely poor women, in maternal mortality and female HIV/AIDS infection rates, and in sex crimes, such as trafficking for the purposes of prostitution.
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  Fifth Periodic CEDAW Report - Bangladesh

  2003

  Despite numerous positive advancements, patriarchal values and practices still limit Bangladeshi women's opportunities for education and employment. They also place them at a greater risk of violence in the form of rape, acid attacks and trafficking. Bangladesh is one of seven countries in the world where the number of women is less than that of men.
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  Fact Sheet No. 22, Discrimination against Women: The Convention and the Committee

  United Nations, 2004

  In 1979, the General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The Convention sets out, in legally binding form, intemationally accepted principles on the rights of women which are applicable to all women in all fields. These principles cannot be met merely by the enactment of gender-neutral laws.
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  Executive Summary of Second NGO Report on CEDAW - Lebanon

  PeaceWomen: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 2000

  Lebanon is one of the few Arab countries that ratified, with reservations, on July 24th 1996 the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, known as CEDAW. Since then, Lebanon is bound and committed to eliminate all forms of discrimination against Lebanese women.
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  A Guide to Indigenous Women's Rights under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  Forest Peoples Programme, 2004

  Indigenous women are subject to multiple forms of discrimination on the basis of both race/ethnicity and gender. As such, abuse of indigenous women's rights can combine denial of land rights with forced sterilisation, inadequate heath care and violence.
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  Gender and Migration in Arab States: The Case of Domestic Workers

  BRIDGE, 2004

  Domestic work is the single most important category of employment among women migrants to the Gulf States, as well as to Lebanon and Jordan. As much as 81 percent of all women migrant workers from Sri Lanka and 39 percent from the Philippines to Arab League countries are being attracted by this large 'domestic work' market.
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  Gender, Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

  Minority Rights Group, 2004

  Although both minority and indigenous men and women experience discrimination, it is minority and indigenous women who most suffer multiple discriminations and therefore have less access to education, health and other services and resources. They face discrimination because of their identification with the group and from those who view women as inferior.
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  Rethinking Domestic Violence: A Training Process for Community Activists

  Raising Voices, 2012

  The Training Process is a programme tool for strengthening the capacity of a wide range of community actors such as trainers and activists to prevent domestic violence. It is a series of training sessions that will help participants think about, discuss and take action to prevent domestic violence.

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