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Article: CULTURALLY SENSITIVE DVMT STRATEGIES CAN PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS.
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- AsiaPulse News
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- November 18, 2008
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NEW YORK, Nov 18 Asia Pulse - Development strategies that are sensitive to cultural values can reduce harmful practices against women and promote human rights, including gender equality and womens empowerment, affirms The State of World Population 2008 report from UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights, reports that culture is a central component of successful development of poor countries, and must be integrated into development policy and programming.
The report, which coincides with this years 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is based on the concept that the ...