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    Intersecting Protections, Migrating Women: Using Human Rights Law to Empower Women Migrant Workers

    Center for Human Rights and Global Justice [New York University Law School], 2004
    With the growing feminisation of migration comes an increasing focus on the abuses women migrants face in sending and receiving countries. Much of the effort to combat these violations centres on urging states to ratify the Migrant Workers Convention (MWC), which came into force in 2003.
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    Dreams & desires: sexual and reproductive health experiences of HIV positive women

    International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004
    HIV positive women want sex, love and children just as much as anyone else. This is one clear message from these personal accounts by 13 positive women from Bolivia, Nepal, Kenya, Ukraine, Nigeria, Thailand, Swaziland, England, Honduras, South Africa, Belarus, Iran, and Sudan.
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    Women's Indicators and Statistics: Wistat Database CD-ROM, Version 4

    United Nations, 2005
    The Women's Indicators and Statistics Database, Version 4 (Wistat 4), is a global database of statistics and indicators on gender, population and social development. It contains detailed statistics and indicators on a wide range of topics for 206 countries or areas of the world.
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    Special Report of the World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics - Focusing on Sex-disaggregated Statistics on Population, Births and Deaths

    United Nations [UN] Statistics Division, 2005
    The Beijing Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, requested producers of statistics to generate and disseminate sex-disaggregated data and information for planning and evaluation. In response to these demands, the United Nations Statistics Division is preparing a publication The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics, to be released in September 2005.
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    Human Development Report: Gender and Human Development

    United Nations Development Programme, 1995
    This Human Development Report focuses on gender and development, highlighting the persistent under-valuing of women's work and the limited opportunities available for women's advancement.
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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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    Targets and Indicators: Selections from Progress of the World's Women

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000
    This preview of UNIFEM's "Progress of the World's Women 2000" highlights the importance of targets and indicators for holding governments accountable for the fulfilment of commitments made to women in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA).
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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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    Aid to support gender equality, 1999 - 2003

    Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2005
    This document is a one page summary of the main findings of an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publication presenting statistics on aid flows in support of gender equality for the years 1999-2003. The publication focuses on selected sectors: basic education, basic health including reproductive health, and water supply and sanitation.

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