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For decades, curriculum-based sexuality education has been a cornerstone of school- and community-based efforts to improve young people’s sexual and reproductive health, and more recently to prevent HIV infection. Unfortunately, public discourse about sex education has been mired in polarizing debates that distract attention from determining how sex and HIV education programs might best achieve the shared goals of many different constituencies.This research brief answers some key questions relating to HIV education with young people. 

In early 2009, a number of civil society organizations (CSOs) reported substantial reductions in their funding in the wake of the global financial and economic crisis, and they were concerned that this threatened their ability to deliver the services and activities that are required. The NGO Committee on Social Development has been part of the Steering Committee to guide a UN sponsored project to assess the impact of the Economic Crisis on CSOs and the people they serve. This webpage provides links to the final report, a shorter executive summary, some case studies and a PowerPoint presentation. The final report outlines the main study which examines the current situation of CSOs as indicated by responses from 640 civil society organizations worldwide. The survey finds that although some CSOs have seen increased funding, overall there is a worsening financial situation for CSOs in the period 2008-2010. As main reasons, CSOs explained that owing to the world economic crisis grants from existing sources decreased. Many humanitarian and development CSOs, especially in Europe, are intensifying their fundraising efforts, as several have seen the need to cut back their aid programmes. The revenue decline comes at the same time as demand for services is increasing, requiring more, not less, funding. The web page links to a case study file which contains various examples from the field to back up the final report. These include an AIDS project in Namibia whose funding has been cut by 12%. As yet they have not had to make cutbacks in staff or decrease in services but have had to totally eliminate training and updates this year for staff and volunteers. This is a major problem in a country where apartheid has meant a real lack of human resource capacity. Another AIDS project in Cambodia stressed that they are very concerned about what may happen in 2011 because of some of their regular donors being hit by the financial crisis either in Europe or Australia

The WWG on FfD is an alliance of women's organizations and networks that advocates for the advancement of gender equality, women's empowerment and human rights in UN processes related to FfD and the global financial and economic crises.

This video shows survivors of the bloody civil war that spanned 14 years in the signature series Liberia's Long Road Back.

This fact sheet presents statistics of gender based violence in South Africa since 1999. It takes a look at patterns of reporting rape in South Africa, based on SAPS reports.

Although there have been notable gains for women globally in the last few decades, gender inequality and gender-based inequities continue to impinge upon girls’ and women’s ability to realize their rights and their full potential as citizens and equal partners in decision-making and development. In fact, for every right that has been established, there are millions of women who do not enjoy it.

In this book, studies from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are prefaced by an introductory chapter that links current thinking on gender justice to debates on citizenship, entitlements, and law and development. A concluding chapter situates the discussion of gender justice, citizenship, and entitlements in current development debates on poverty alleviation and social exclusion. The book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives from leading feminist scholars of sociology, political science and legal studies, among others, and in doing so, provides new insights for both advocacy and research.

This report examines issues at the heart of the rapidly evolving intersection of mobile phones and healthcare. It helps the reader to understand mHealth’s scope and implementation across developing regions, the health needs to which mHealth can be applied, and the mHealth applications that promise the greatest impact on heath care initiatives.

Mounting interest in the field of mHealth—the provision of health-related services via mobile communications— can be traced to the evolution of several interrelated trends. In many parts of the world, epidemics and a shortage of healthcare workers continue to present grave challenges for governments and health providers. Yet in these same places, the explosive growth of mobile communications over the past decade offers a new hope for the promotion of quality healthcare. Among those who had previously been left behind by the ‘digital divide,’ billions now have access to reliable technology.

Breakthrough's multimedia campaign "Bell Bajao" (Ring the Bell), urges men to take a stand against domestic violence. The extraordinary campaign, launched on August 20, 2008, has reached over 35 million people throughout India through TV and radio spots, print ads, mobile video vans, and an online presence.

Criminalising the sex work industry does not eradicate it, but simply makes it impossible to control or regulate. This in turn means that sex workers are vulnerable to violence and exploitation and cannot rely on the law or the police to protect them. Constant harassment and arrests cause much harm to sex workers, the majority being women who are economically dependent on this work.

Speech by Donald Steinberg, Deputy President, International Crisis Group, to United Nations Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict in Geneva, 17 December 2008