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Research in Regions

AFRICA
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All Africa.com
news about the girl child as well as other topics, in French and English, covers all regions in Africa, BBC link

JOKKOO
Annual magazine of the United Nations System in The Gambia (focus on Population and development)

Radio Simba
Listen to Live Radio from Uganda (Has commercial features but a interesting site)

Union for African Population Studies
SMALL GRANTS PROGRAMME ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES FOR UNIOR RESEARCHERS.GUIDELINES FOR APPLICATION

2000 Edition Priority Research Themes THEME No 10 : GIRL CHILD EDUCATION AND CHILDREN RIGHTS - Research needed

  1. What effects would education have on the life of the girl child?

  2. How would education lead to be rising age at marriage, high rate of contraceptive usage, decline in adolescent pregnancies and unsafe absortion, etc. thus improving the health of the girl and lowering fertility?

  3. In what ways would education of the girl child enhance the status of the young girls in the short run of the women in the long run?

  4. Does education per se enhance the status of the female or are there other concomittment factors that must be changed in order to ensure appropriate socio-cultural responses to changes in the society?

Asia & the Pacific
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Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO
GIRL-CHILD EDUCATION. Development of basic literacy learning materials for girls and women in Asia and the Pacific

SAARC
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Working together in friendship to promote social and economic support for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

CANADA
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World University Service of Canada

Canada-Ghana
Girl-Child education Enhancement Project (1997)

INDIA
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ASHA
To catalyze socio-economic change in India through education of underprivileged children.

ASHA
Related articles on the girl child and education ()

The Hindu Online edition of India's National Newspaper on indiaserver.com

Girl child's education: efforts on to reduce dropout rate, Article for research

Front Page
The Hindu Online National Newspaper for research

SAFE
Save a Female through Education ()

Help educate girl Children in India.(Link to The Progress if Indian States a report from United Nations’ International Children’s Emergency Fund-UNICEF. Get Involved)

Vedams Books from India

Urgency of Value Education and Primacy of Girl Child : National Agenda for Educational Reforms/edited by Subhash C. Kashyap. 1998, 231 p., ISBN 81- 85565-95-3.

Primary Source material

International
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G L O B A L I S S U E S

Population at the Millennium

CAIRO PLAN OF ACTION -- PRINCIPLES The United States Perspective. The principles of the Program of Action adopted by United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, September, 1994, in Cairo, Egypt.

Pakistan and Kashmir
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Unofficial web site of The Kashmir Education Foundation
We are dedicated to the promotion of quality education in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir for quality education for the girl child.

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