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    Promotion of Human Rights and Gender Equality Related to Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Among Youth in Low-Income Areas of Buenos Aires Suburbs, Argentina

    BRIDGE, 2007
    In contexts of poverty, the sole fact of being young can be a cause of exclusion.
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    Policy Approaches to Working with Men to Improve Men's Health and Achieve Gender Equality

    BRIDGE, 2007
    What policies are in place to address issues such as men and violence, men and sexual and reproductive health services, male circumcision, and men and substance use? What are the operational barriers to policy implementation? What new policies are needed and which departments should be involved in setting and implementing policy?
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    How can Donors Contribute Towards Increased Male Engagement in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Including HIV

    BRIDGE, 2007
    How can bilateral donors support work with men for gender equality and help move the 'masculinities agenda' forward? An important place for donors to start, argues this paper, is with their own professional and personal lives. Do our workplaces have an open environment in which all voices can be heard? Are men who push gender issues seen as wimps?
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    Whispers to voices: gender and social transformation in Bangladesh

    World Bank Publications, 2008
    Why has Bangladesh been hailed as 'a shining new example' of a poor country achieving impressive gains in gender equality? According to this World Bank report, Bangladesh has made great progress in achieving gender equality and enhancing the status of women.
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    Progress Report on Women and Gender Development

    Tanzania Ministry of Community Development Gender and Children, 2003
    This report maps progress on Tanzania's commitment to tackling gender inequality in light of the government's signing and ratification of international and regional agreements including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the Gender and Development Declaration by Heads of State and Government of Southern African Development Corporation (SADC).
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    Gender and Economic Empowerment in Africa, 8th Meeting of the Africa Partnership Forum, Berlin, Germany, 22-23 May 2007

    Africa Partnership Forum, 2007
    There are multiple obstacles to the economic empowerment of women in Africa. For example, limited access to productive resources such as land, seed and fertiliser means that women may be unable to benefit from the expansion of trade in agricultural products.
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    UNIFEM Afganistan Fact Sheet 2007

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    What is women's situation in Afghanistan in 2007? This factsheet presents key statistics in a number of key areas, including political participation, labour force participation, health, education, marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world, and a low female life expectancy of just 44 years.
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    Men, Ageing and Health: Achieving Health Across the Life Span

    2000
    Gender norms and expectations affect men's health throughout their life course, including in old age. For example, men often avoid seeking care due to the belief in many cultures that health-seeking behaviour is a sign of weakness. Older men may be particularly vulnerable since they may be less tied into social networks than women.
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    Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

    Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007
    Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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    World Bank Gender Stats: Iraq

    World Bank, 2007
    GenderStats is the World Bank's database of country gender statistics. Its pages on Iraq present sex disaggregated figures on size of population, life expectancy at birth, labour force participation, education and health. The web site also features an ?empowerment table?, which monitors the number of women representatives in national and local government in Iraq.

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