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Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland (born 20 April, 1939) is a politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She served as the first female Prime Minister of Norway, and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization. She now serves as a Special Envoy on Climate Change […]

Gender and Trade Initiative (GATI)

Table of Contents 1 About 2 Objectives 3 Partners 4 References About The Gender and Trade Initiative (GATI)Retrieved from the Gender and Trade website, on 15 September 2010: Gender and Trade Website was started in 1994 by the Society for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (SOFCAR), an advocacy group from New Delhi, . The initiative aims […]

Gender and Sport

This article was written by Group 8 in , as part of the . Table of Contents 1 About: Gender and Sport 1.1 Why is it important to look at gender and sport? 2 Case Studies: 2.1 Women’s sport in Thailand 3 Situation and Women’s policy in Thailand 4 References 5 Group 8 About: Gender […]

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Gender genocide in the Bosnian War

Sexual abuse has always been seen as an offense to men through their families, without taking into account victims’ suffering. But something is changing: the /2008 UN http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/unsc_resolutions08.htm resolution says that, when resolving conflicts, sexual violence crimes need to be excluded from amnesty provisions; and states should prosecute persons responsible for such acts. Not only […]

Gender and Mental Health

Mental health problems are one of the world’s leading causes of disease and disability. While previously cases of mental health problems (ranging from depression to chronic mental disorders) were more prevalent in industrialized countries, trends in developing countries are also showing increased rates of mental health problems. While mental disorders affect both genders, there is […]

Gender and Education Data Visualization

Table of Contents 1 Mind the Gap: an online tool for exploring the latest gender and education data 2 Important 3 References 4 See also 5 External links Mind the Gap: an online tool for exploring the latest gender and education data Imagine a young girl starting school in the North African country of Mauritania. […]

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Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook

Table of Contents 1 About 2 Structure of the Book 3 See Also 4 External Links About The Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook presents a rich compilation of experiences, some of them ongoing, in which agricultural projects have incorporated gender-related components or adapted their operations to allow for gender variables and engage issues that affect men […]

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was born in 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (). She is known as an avant-garde American writer, whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and II. Table of Contents 1 Education 2 Paris: Friendships with painters and writers 3 World War II […]

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Girl Child Soldiers

Table of Contents 1 Who is a Child Soldier? 2 The Issue 3 References 4 See also 5 External links 6 Further reading Who is a Child Soldier? The Cape Town Principles define a child soldier as any person under 18 years who is part of any kind of regular or irregular armed force in […]

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