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World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development stories

Education and Health “Globally, over a third of women die in their reproductive years”(Page 105 of the report). “Girls now outnumber boys in secondary schools in 45 developing countries” (see World Bank website on WDR 2012). “Despite progress in female education, around 40 percent of men in Amman ages 15–44 think women should not work […]

CLADEM

Type NGO Founded 1987 Location Oficina Regional CLADEM, Jr. Estados Unidos 1295, Dpto. 702, Lima 11, Peru Area served Latin America and the Caribbean Focus Human rights and legal and judicial development Method Education, advocacy, lobbying, monitoring, litigation Website http://www.cladem.org/ The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (Portuguese: Comitê Latino-americano […]

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Moremi Initiative: investing in women and girls’ leadership in Africa

Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Moremi Initiative: Training Young Women to Lead Change 1.1.1 The Moremi Initiative’s Leadership and Empowerment Development (MILEAD) Fellowship 2 See also 3 External links 4 References 5 Feedback Introduction Young women have long been identified as agents of change. As articulated by the World YWCA in their training manual […]

“Auntie Stella”: A Best Practice Sexual & Reproductive Health Education and HIV Prevention Resource for Adolescents

Table of Contents 1 Overview 2 Getting to Know “Auntie Stella” 2.1 Including Adolescents’ Voices in Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2.2 Analysing AS 2.2.1 AS in Zimbabwe and the Southern Africa Region 3 See Also 4 Conclusion 5 References 6 Feedback Overview The importance of investing in adolescent girls’ is well documented, especially in […]

  • August 9, 2012
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Women’s legal empowerment

The ability to and to claim, use, and defend land and other natural resource tenure rights – of individuals and groups – is contingent on processes of empowerment. Women face additional hurdles to empowerment, ranging from their status within the household and community to their status under customary and/or statutory law. While many countries make […]

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