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    Harmful traditional practices: your questions, our answers

    Gender and Development Network, 2014
    What are harmful traditional practices (HTPs), and how can women and girls be protected from them? This report provides an overview of HTPs, explaining their causes and consequences, and bringing together examples of successful approaches to addressing them.
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    Harmful traditional practices and implementation of the law on elimination of violence against women in Afghanistan

    United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, 2010
    In August 2009, the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan enacted the Law on Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW law), which seeks to eliminate customs, traditions and practices that cause violence against women contrary to the religion of Islam.
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    The Vanishing Victim: Criminal Law and Gender in Jordan

    Blackwell Synergy, 2007
    Criminal codes in Jordan are markedly gendered. This article analyses how the penalties for rape, domestic violence and honour killings reflect local norms of appropriate gender roles and society's desire to rectify the social standing and ?honour? of a raped woman and her family, rather than to punish the crime.
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    Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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    Marriage Laws and Violence against the Spouse

    Population Environment Research Network, IUSSP-IHDP, 2005
    Marriage laws are ignored by demographers, who prefer to use socio-economic data. However, marriage laws have considerable influence over family relationships, for example by stipulating whether equality must be respected in marital relations.
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    Constructions of Masculinities and Violence against Women

    2001
    In Bangladesh sexual violence within marriage is often seen as a shameful but tolerated ill. Although anger about violence against women (VAW) is profound among many Bangladeshi women, numerous barriers prevent them from speaking out against gender-based violence.
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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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    Shadow Report, Ethiopia 2003 (Executive Summary)

    Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association, 2003
    This shadow report, produced by NEWA and EWLA, offers a critique of the Ethiopian government's CEDAW report by looking at three broad areas: economic and socio-cultural status of women, equality in marriage and family relations and violence against women.
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    CEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Ethiopia

    United Nations, 2002
    Ethiopia has combined its fourth and fifth reports to the United Nations Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This report outlines the status of women in Ethiopia and initiatives on the part of all government and non-governmental actors to address the goals set out by CEDAW.
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    How to Make the Law Work? Budgetary Implications of Domestic Violence Policies in Latin America

    2003
    How can domestic violence be reduced in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? This synthesis research paper demonstrates that to make domestic violence policy work there needs to be sufficient budgetary allocations to enable the laws enacted in these countries to translate into action.

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