This special edition on gender and housing explores the crisis of women in Latin America who can’t escape homes where they suffer abuse because they are economically dependent on their
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The Gillard Labor Government has released the 2010 National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children, which is intended to bring the efforts of all service systems together
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Improving the health of adolescent girls in the developing world is the key to improving maternal and child health, reducing the impact of HIV, and accelerating social and economic development.
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Having established that massive human rights violations in armed conflict constitute a threat to peace and that women are the most severely affected by the scourge of war, the Security
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Women’s rights to decide when to have children and the number of children to have; when to have sex, with whom, in what ways and how often (not to mention
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To highlight existing efforts and to strengthen the analysis and replication of good practices, UN-INSTRAW hosted a virtual discussion from 28 June to 19 July 2010 to foster the dynamic
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Women are essential partners in rebuilding after war. Often the majority of the post-conflict population, women regularly maintain their communities through years of violence.
They possess critical knowledge of local priorities
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Recognising women’s involvement in commercial crop production and ensuring that they benefit from research, extension, credit, land tenure rights, market access and other elements of production, innovation and participation still
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