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  Where Are The Girls? Girls in fighting forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique: Their lives during and after war

  2004

  This study contributes to what is currently known about the experiences of girls in fighting forces as distinct from those of boys. It is meant to assist policymakers in developing policies and programs to help protect and empower girls in situations of armed conflict and postwar reconstruction.
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  A Fair Chance: Attaining Gender Equality in Basic Education by 2005

  ActionAid International, 2003

  At the United Nations (UN) Millennium Summit in 2000, world leaders agreed to get as many girls as boys into primary and secondary classrooms by 2005. Despite the deadline being less than two years away, no country is so far off track that it could not eliminate gender gaps in rural and urban primary and secondary school intake rates by 2005.
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  Local Action/Global Change: Learning about the Human Rights of Women and Girls

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 1999

  This book aims to develop human rights awareness and provide information on issue-oriented actions. It includes substantive information about the human rights of women in such areas as violence, health, reproduction and sexuality, education, the global economy, the workplace, and family life.
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  Does Sex Make a Difference: An Equalities Pack for Young People on International Women's Day

  2003

  ?Get a Life!? is one message of this pack which looks at why women are underrepresented in politics in the UK. Young people, particularly girls, are encouraged to get involved in politics and representative bodies in school, community and government. Positive stories are presented of women's and young people's participation in politics.
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  Women Hold Up Half the Sky

  2003

  This series of eight training videos which accompanies the above workbook is for learning about the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and its relevance to women's daily lives. These short narrative dramas showing the effects of patriarchy on women and girls are based on real life stories.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government sponsored programme in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  Reliable and affordable childcare is becoming increasingly critical in Latin America in a context of rising female labour force participation and growing numbers of female-headed households. The Hogares Comunitarios Programme (HCP), a government-sponsored programme established in Guatemala City in 1991, was a direct response to the escalating need of poor urban women for childcare.
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  Alternative Report of Cladem Peru on the Implementation in Peru of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  2002

  This shadow report, led by The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights -Peru (CLADEM-Peru), contributes to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
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  CEDAW Fifth Periodic Reports of State Parties: Peru

  United Nations, 2001

  Peru's fifth submission to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) outlines the status of women in Peru. The government has faced difficulties changing attitudes that discriminate against women.
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  Abstinence-Only Education (in the USA): Fact Sheet

  Planned Parenthood Federation of America Incorporated, 2001

  Since the 1980s Christian right-wing fundamentalist groups in the USA have been lobbying for abstinence-only-before-marriage education instead of sex education in US schools. Their efforts have met with some success.
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  Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sexuality

  Harvard University Press, 2002

  This book is based on interviews with teenage girls in the USA about how they experience sexual desire. All of the girls were highly aware of the dangers surrounding sex including getting a bad reputation, pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, rape and violence. They have received these messages from parents and in school.

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