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Annual Report
The UNFPA Annual Report 2006 highlights UNFPA’s efforts throughout the year assisting 154 developing and transition countries and territories to empower women and men to make the choices necessary to improve their lives, improve reproductive and sexual health, reduce maternal death, promote HIV prevention, address unmet needs for family planning, advance effective population policies and alleviate poverty.
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Annual Report
The UNFPA Annual Report 2005 showcases efforts by Fund to improve reproductive health, ensure safe motherhood, address population issues, prevent HIV and help people in crises. The report highlights examples of UNFPA's work in each of these fields--demonstrating how it is making a difference in the lives of individuals and families in every region of the world. It also presents facts and figures about our work, including details of the contributions that UNFPA received from a record 172 donor countries in 2005, and on the kinds of projects that are supported by this generous funding.
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At the High-Level Roundtable on the 11th and 12th April 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden, Ministers of Finance, Planning, Health and State from developing countries, government representatives from donor countries, leaders of UN agencies, developments banks and foundations, Parliamentarians, as well as civil society and youth leaders endorsed the "Stockholm Call to Action: Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights as a Development Priority".
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This brochure provides a brief introduction to UNFPA and its efforts to ensure that every child is wanted, every pregnancy is safe, every young person is free of HIV and every girl and woman is treated with dignity and respect.
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This publication, launched at the start of the Beijing at 10 review, highlights what UNFPA has done and is doing to support governments and civil society in each of the 12 critical areas of the Beijing Platform for Action.
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Guide to Working from Within
This booklet, a companion to the publication Working from Within, colorfully presents 24 tips, one per page, for culturally sensitive programming, based on research carried out by UNFPA. (Also available in German.)
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This report provides highlights of a September 2003 consultation in Rome with UNFPA and many of its partners. It provides lessons learned from ten pilot projects that used a programme guide created by UNFPA to help health care providers address gender-based violence. It also summarizes presentations from ten experts on gender-based violence and recommendations from the three working groups.
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Enabling Choices... Promoting Empowerment
The ICPD Programme of Action recognized education as a key factor in sustainable development and in the development of well-being through it's links with demographic as well as social factors. This publication provides an overview of how UNFPA integrates education activities in all its programs on population, reproductive health,gender and HIV/AIDS with an emphasis on the needs of
young people. It also highlights successful education programmes in selected countries."
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This brochure was developed in collaboration with UNIFEM, UNAIDS and UNFPA to highlight critical issues impacting on women and girls in the context of HIV/AIDS.
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A Region in Transition
This most recent UNFPA publication gives an overview of the Asia and Pacific Region; provides a detailed analysis of some of the crucial issues facing the region - adolescent reproductive health, population ageing, rising spread of HIV/AIDS, gender discrimination, gender-based violence, situations of crisis; and highlights UNFPA's core interventions and major initiatives in each of these areas.
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Links Throughout the Life Cycle
After describing the international consensus reached in Beijing about empowering women and ending gender inequality, and defining key human rights concepts, the report examines key issues related to reproductive health and rights that affect women throughout their lives. Topics covered include: Early life chances, The mutual relationship between reproductive health and education, Adolescence and the transition to adulthood, Marriage and the family, Labour force participation and employment, Reproductive health and violence and Issues affecting the health of older women
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Youth Supplement: State of World Population 2008
This Youth Supplement to UNFPA's State of the World Population 2008 focuses on the interactions among culture, gender and human rights and the critical importance of culturally sensitive approaches for effective development policies and programmes. The report, which is the third in a series, addresses culture as it shapes and nurtures the lives of young people and shows how young people develop their own subcultures, which are often different from and may conflict with the dominant culture.
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Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights
Culture is and always has been central to development. As a natural and fundamental dimension of people's lives, culture must be integrated into development policy and programming. This report shows how this process works in practice. The starting point of the report is the universal validity of the international human rights framework. The focus is therefore on discussing and showcasing how culturally sensitive approaches are critical for the realization of human rights in general and women's rights in particular.
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A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration
Today, half of all international migrants—95 million—are women and girls. Yet, despite substantial contributions to both their families at home and communities abroad, the needs of migrant women continue to be overlooked and ignored. The State of World Population 2006 report, A Passage to Hope: Women and International Migration, examines the scope and breadth of female migration, the impact of the funds they send home to support families and communities, and their disproportionate vulnerability to trafficking, exploitation and abuse. The report reveals that although migrant women contribute billions of dollars in cash and services, policymakers continue to disregard both their contributions and their vulnerability—even though female migrants tend to send a much higher proportion of their lower earnings back home than their male counterparts.
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The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
How do we improve the lives of the nearly 3 billion individuals living on less than two dollars a day? How can we enable all individuals — male and female, young and old — to protect themselves from HIV? To save the lives of more than 500,000 women who die each year in childbirth? What will it take to show young people living in poverty that they have a stake in development and a hope for the future?
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The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and The Global Effort to End Poverty
This year's report, The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty, examines the progress countries have made and the obstacles they have encountered at the halfway point in implementing the ICPD plan.
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Lives Together, Worlds Apart: Men and Women in a Time of Change
The report examines a broad range of evidence from around the world showing that systematic discrimination against women and girls causes extensive suffering and lost opportunities for both women and men, and holds back efforts to reduce poverty, improve health, stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and slow rapid population growth.
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UNFPA Strategy and Framework for Action
This publication identifies priority areas for intensified action on gender-based violence: policy frameworks, data collection and analysis, sexual and reproductive health, humanitarian responses, adolescents and youth, men and boys, faith-based networks, and vulnerable and marginalized populations. It aims to provide a common platform and technical guidance for UNFPA at country, regional and global levels and effectively guide capacity-development initiatives, resources and partnerships.
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UNFPA Programming at Work
This booklet provides a snapshot of UNFPA's programming efforts to advance gender equality and empower women. It reports on activities undertaken in six priority areas, based on contributions from the global, regional and country levels over the course of two years (2007-2008).
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A Capacity-building Workshop for Iraqi Women Leaders (Istanbul, Turkey, 11-15 June 2007)
This report documents a workshop to train Iraqi women leaders in tools and procedures to enhance their effectiveness and that of their organizations. UNFPA has long recognized the distinct experience of women in conflict and post-conflict settings and has developed a strategy for gender mainstreaming in such situations. The workshop trained leaders of Iraqi NGOs in the skills to participate in rehabilitation and peace processes.
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An interagency statement
This Statement is a call to all States, international and national organizations, civil society and communities to uphold the rights of girls and women. It also calls on those bodies and communities to develop, strengthen, and support specific and concrete actions directed towards ending female
genital mutilation.
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on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
This publication contains extensive knowledge based on findings of research institutions, foundations, lawyers, medical professionals, religious scholars, development partners and non governmental organizations. It includes research on global trends and the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting and its linkages with maternal and newborn health; describes changing patterns and practices; and analyzes the threat FGM/C poses to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals, as well as its economic and health costs. It provides case studies, lessons learned and the theorical basis for accelerating the abandonment process.
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2006 Global Survey
Women's empowerment, HIV/AIDS, and reproductive health and rights are at the top of global parliamentarians list of priorities according to this report, which summarizes the findings of a global survey of parliamentarians undertaken in 2006. In total 322 parliamentarians took part, including respondents from the European Parliament as well as 85 developing and 18 donor countries. UNFPA collaborated with the Harvard School of Public Health and the four regional parliamentary groups on Population and Development to compile the survey. It documents the important progress parliamentarians have made since the ICPD, highlights the obstacles that must be conquered, and provides a clearer picture of the road ahead.
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Security Council Resolution 1325
This report summarizes views on assisting displaced women in conflict and post-conflict situations as presented at the UNFPA Expert Meeting in Tunisia. The first goal of the meeting was to bridge the gap between knowledge and policies regarding women's protection needs -- or gender-specific protection issues. The second goal was to identify specific means for the integration of emergency-related programming into the mainstream of UNFPA work.
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The urgency of addressing the vulnerability of young women and adolescent girls of all backgrounds, but particularly the poor, cannot be over stated. Innovative, far-reaching and rapid responses are needed to impact whole generations so that the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty can be within reach. This paper sets out to explore the relationship between economic independence, vulnerability to HIV infection, the level of sexual and reproductive health among women and adolescent girls, and gender-based violence.
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UNFPA's Strategic Framework for Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Empowerment 2008-2011
UNFPA's Strategic Framework for Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Empowerment 2008-2011 articulates a corporate strategy for working with Governments and partners in promoting gender equality. At a time when the global community is increasingly focused on poverty reduction and broader national development goals, the Framework outlines UNFPA's policy and programme priorities for the empowerment of women and girls and for incorporating a gender perspective across its mandate, in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, and population and development.
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Programming for Prevention, Protection and Care
This handbook, intended primarily for development practitioners, provides practical points to consider when designing and implementing projects addressing violence against women. It is a collection of good practices drawn from ten case studies described in a complementary volume Programming to Address Violence Against Women. The approaches are based on an appreciation of culture and the role it plays in this issue.
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10 Key Advocacy Messages to Prevent HIV in Girls and Young Women
The aim of this guide is to equip its users with key messages, evidence and actions that can be used to advocate effectively to prevent HIV in girls and young women. It focuses on three goals that the global community increasingly recognizes as important components of the response to the epidemic: improving the accessibility of sexual and reproductive health services for girls and young women; expanding socio-economic opportunities; and ending child marriage. In turn, collectively the goals are divided into a total of 10 key messages.
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This report summarizes and evaluates qualitative research about so-called 'honour killings'. It focused the different perceptions of honour and the consequences faced by people engaged in 'dishonourable conduct.' It also analyzes the way the concept of dishonour is related to social structures, lifestyles and mental constructs. The information is derived from interviews and group discussions conducted in four Turkish cities with relatively high numbers of such murders. The report includes proposals for solutions to the problem and suggestions for action.
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Many studies have recognized the importance of improving the status of impoverished women. This workshop report describes a number of approaches used to date to empower women economically, including microcredit. The report includes a review of the literature on women's economic empowerment and a summary of presentations from the workshop.
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Focus on Gender
This Framework for Action addresses the health status and factors that influence women's health at midlife and older ages with a focus on gender. It provides guidance on how policy-makers, practitioners, nongovernmental organizations and civil society can improve the health and wellbeing of ageing women by simultaneously applying both a gender and an ageing lens in their policies, programmes and practices, as well as in research.
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A Training Manual
This easy-to-follow resource manual can help young women prepare and facilitate training sessions on a host of issues that are important to them. A joint publication of the World YWCA and UNFPA, the manual was developed by young women. It contains modules on young women's leadership, economic justice, HIV and AIDS, human rights, peace, self esteem and body image, sexual and reproductive health and violence against women.
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Tackling child marriage is a daunting but possible task, requiring political will and proactive multi-faceted strategies at the international, national and community levels. Ending Child Marriage: A Guide for Global Policy Action is part of a wider advocacy strategy to raise awareness on child marriage and its effects on communities.
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Selected Papers of the UNFPA-IOM Expert Group Meeting, New York, 2-3 May 2006
Women make up nearly half of all migrants, an estimated 95 million of 191 million people living outside their countries of origin in 2005. Migration can be beneficial, both for women and for the countries which send and receive them. However, comparing to men, women have fewer opportunities for legal migration and are more vulnerable to violence and exploitation, and their needs for health care and other services are less likely to be met. This publication is a compilation of technical reports by independent experts and representatives from governments, international agencies and NGOs, addressing the needs, challenges, opportunities and rights of female migrants.
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An Assessment of Gender Integration in UNFPA Materials Produced Between 1997 and Early 2005
This report presents the findings of the evaluative inquiry carried out by the Division of Oversight Services in 2005 with the objectives to assess the quality, packaging and design of gender-related messages being communicated to UNFPA staff as well as the utility and utilization of these materials.
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This resource pack provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks. It focuses primarily on health, particularly reproductive health; on HIV/AIDS; and on violence against women as it relates to health services. The publication was produced under a UNFPA/UNIFEM strategic partnership aimed at developing a coordinated approach for effective technical assistance to gender-responsive budgeting (GRB).
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This training manual was produced under a UNFPA/UNIFEM strategic partnership aimed at developing a coordinated approach for effective technical assistance to gender-responsive budgeting (GRB). It is intended to build capacity in the application of gender budget analysis. The manual seeks to build understanding of GRB as a tool for promoting gender equity, accountability to women's rights, and efficiency and transparency in budget policies and processes.
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Basic Indicators 2005
The brochure profiles gender differences in health and development in the 48 states and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on women's reproductive health, access to key health services, and major causes of death. Its objective is to raise awareness of gender inequities in the region and promote the use of sex-disaggregated health statistics in the development of targeted health and development policies and other initiatives.
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AIDS is affecting women and girls in increasing numbers. Globally, women comprise almost 50% of the people living with HIV. Nearly 25 years into the epidemic, gender inequality and the low status of women remain two of the principal drivers of HIV. Yet, current AIDS responses do not, on the whole, tackle the social, cultural and economic factors that put women at risk of HIV, and that unduly burden them with the epidemic's consequences.
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Developed by the UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Gender and HIV/AIDS, this Resource Pack aims to strengthen the impact of national HIV/AIDS programmes by tackling a key underlying factor that fuels the epidemic: gender inequality.
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Guidelines on care, treatment and support for women living with HIV/AIDS and their children in resource-constrained settings
The sexual and reproductive health of women living with HIV/AIDS is fundamental to their well-being and that of their partners and children. This publication addresses the specific sexual and reproductive health needs of women living with HIV/AIDS and contains recommendations for counselling, antiretroviral therapy, care and other interventions.
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Women form the backbone of families and communities. When emergencies strike, their important contributions become even more vital. But in times of crisis, the particular strengths an vulnerabilities of women are often overlooked in the rush to provide humanitarian assistance. This booklet describes the ways in which UNFPA works with partners to ensure that the specific needs of women are factored into the planning of all humanitarian assistance and addresses urgent reproductive health needs that are sometimes forgotten.
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An expert group meeting on "Female Migrants: Bridging the gaps throughout the life cycle" was organized in May 2006 by UNFPA and IOM in light of the opportunity to highlight the issue of female migrants at the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development organized in September 2006. The brochure gives a summary of the recommendations and conclusions from the meeting.
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This advocacy kit outlines the problem of gender-based violence, elaborates its linkages to poverty, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and conflict, and discusses its impact on a nation's development. The goal is to mobilize leadership at the national, regional and global levels to make violence unacceptable.
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This report is focused on illustrating the interface between culture, gender and reproductive health issues addressed by UNFPA. It draws attention to challenges and opportunities in terms of both issues and strategies that have implications for programming interventions.
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Integrating Health Education and Microfinance to Empower Women and Reduce Poverty
This advocacy booklet calls for integration of reproductive health education with microfinance services in developing countries. It presents individual stories, case studies and dramatic findings to show the impact this combination can have on reducing poverty and improving individual lives. The booklet also offers eight concrete recommendations for action.
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Technical Paper
This publication is about gender-responsive programming for poverty reduction in Africa. It demonstrates how gender inequality contributes to poverty, slows economic growth and reduces human well-being. Eliminating gender gaps and gender inequality means bringing the disadvantaged at par with the favored, something that is yet to be achieved in access to education and health in many African countries.
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Selected Papers of the UNFPA Expert Group Meeting
The growing interest in and visibility of international migration and the 5-year review of progress towards achievement of the Millennium Development Goals provided UNFPA with a good opportunity to convene recently an Expert Group Meeting (EGM) to analyze the interface between International Migration and the MDGs. This report is a compilation of selected papers presented at the meeting.
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Gender equality and women's empowerment are Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in their own right and central to all other development efforts. This resource guide for Gender Theme Groups (GTGs) has been developed to strengthen coordinated action in the UN system to support countries to achieve these goals.
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UNFPA implements Human Rights-Based Approach
This advocacy booklet lays out the underlying principles of UNFPA's human rights work in the key thematic areas, including population and development, reproductive health, gender equality and women's empowerment.
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Case Studies from Country Programmes
This new report—on working within cultures to foster stronger progress towards achieving international development goals and advancing human rights—provides insight into integrating cultural analysis in development programmes, especially in the critical areas of gender equity and equality and reproductive health and rights.
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National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994-2004
This Global Survey includes responses from 169 countries on the steps they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action, including measures related to population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.
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National Progress in Implementing the ICPD Programme of Action 1994 - 2004
A summary of the Global Survey that includes responses from 169 countries on the measures they have taken to implement the Cairo Programme of Action in the fields of population and development, gender equality, women's empowerment, reproductive rights and health and HIV/AIDS.
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Confronting the Crisis
This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse it cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights. Noting that half of all people infected with HIV are women, the report documents the devastating and often invisible impact of AIDS on women and girls and highlights the ways discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence help fuel the epidemic.
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Culturally Sensitive Approaches in UNFPA Programming
The nine case studies presented in this brochure are drawn from a longer UNFPA report entitled, "Culture Matters: Working with Communities and Faith-based Organizations". It highlights the necessity of mainstreaming cultural analysis and sensitivity in development efforts addressing issues such as gender equality and equity, HIV/AIDS, female genital cutting, gender-based violence and reproductive health.
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Taking advantage of the considerable organizational and human resources of military institutions to protect reproductive health and rights is emerging as a powerful
strategy in both peacetime and conflict situations. For decades, UNFPA has worked
with the military sector to reach out to men with information, education and services
on family life and family planning. This experience is now being applied to a
wider spectrum of reproductive and sexual health concerns, including maternal
health, HIV/AIDS prevention and reduction of gender-based violence. This digital document offers lessons learned from reproductive health projects in nine
different military organizations.
Send comments to: cohen@unfpa.org
Request CD ROMs to: conte@unfpa.org
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Partnering with Men in Reproductive and Sexual Health
Partnering with men is emerging as an important strategy for improving reproductive health. This new publication offers guidance on effective and gender-sensitive ways to engage men in the reproductive and sexual health of themselves and their partners. It includes examples of successful strategies and programming as well as lessons learned. A checklist summarizing key points makes this programme advisory note an
especially useful tool for both designing and evaluating projects.
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Key Issues for Population and Development Programmes
Trafficking in persons, their transportation and sale for labour of any kind,
whether within or outside national boundaries, is a modern form of slavery and
a violation of the human rights of the victims. More than 700,000 persons are
trafficked each year from one country to another, but the numbers are greatly
magnified when in-country figures are taken into account. An overwhelming
majority of victims are women, girls and boys. The primary objective is commercial
sexual exploitation. Giving expression to its concern, UNFPA organized a consultative meeting in
Bratislava from 2-4 October 2002 to seek ways of addressing the problem. The
present report is the outcome of this meeting.
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Social, Health and Gender Issues
A special report from the Expert Group Meeting on Population Ageing and Development. Population ageing has become one of the most significant demographic processes of modern times. An inevitable consequence of the demographic transition and the shift to lower fertility and reduced mortality, the ageing of the world?s population has many countries facing unprecedented numbers and proportions of older persons. As part of the preparatory activities leading up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing, UNFPA convened, in collaboration with the United Nations Programme on Ageing, AARP and HelpAge International. This publication provides a summary of the papers presented and the discussions, along with the meeting?s conclusions and recommendations.
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The Independent Experts' Assessment
Commissioned by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), this colorful book examines the progress made in implementing the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. The report - prepared by two independent experts, with support from UNFPA - highlights the prevalence of violence against women before, during and after armed conflicts. The experts based their findings on firsthand data and testimonies collected during visits to East Timor, Cambodia, the Balkans, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Colombia, Africa's Great Lakes region, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. See Executive Summary
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A Programme Guide for Health Care Providers and Managers
This publication contains practical steps needed to integrate measures on gender based violence into reproductive health facilities. It is also meant to help a wider range of readers to understand the connections between reproductive and sexual health and violence. While the Programme Guide is targeting primarily health service providers, it can also be used as a reference guide for advocacy purposes or to undertake other activities in this area.
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United Nations Inter-Agency Consultation on Engagement with Faith-based Organizations
This publication reports on the interagency consultation hosted by UNFPA in July 2008. The meeting brought together representatives from various United Nations agencies that have some experience and insight regarding programmating with faith-based organizations (defined as religious and religion-based groups or congregations, specialized religious institutions, and registered or unregistered non-profit institutions that have a faith-based character or mission, including spiritual organizations).
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Report of a Technical Consultation on UNFPA's Role in Education.
8-10 December 2003 - New York
This meeting report is based on a Fund-wide consultation to review UNFPA's three-decade long experience in population education (PopEd).
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In April 2004, UNFPA conducted a training workshop on leadership, media and conflict management for women in Afghanistan. This workshop was designed to address the challenges noted at the earlier global meeting in Slovakia, of helping women become leaders and find solutions to their societies' problems, and formulating strategies and tools to ensure that UNFPA fully supports this empowerment, specifically by addressing those strategies through a comprehensive gender-sensitive approach.
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For Non-Governmental Organizations in Conflict/Post-Conflict Settings
The "Training Workshop on Capacity-Building for NGOs in Conflict/Post-Conflict Situations" was held in Bratislava, Slovakia, 18-22 November 2002.
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