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We Can't Wait: A Report on Sanitation and Hygiene for Women and Girls [PDF]

, 2013
This paper raises awareness of the impacts of poor sanitation on women across the world and calls for a concerted effort on a different scale from all levels of government, business, and civil society.

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Risks of the development of the housing and communal infrastructure and their impact on the economic security

Соціальна економіка, 2017
The article examines the meaning of housing and communal infrastructure in the system of the social infrastructure. The structural components of housing and communal infrastructure are defined.
Nataliia V. Buhaichuk
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Mexico’s Free Trade Agreements [PDF]

, 2009
[Excerpt] Mexico has had a growing commitment to trade integration through the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) since the 1990s and its trade policy is among the most open in the world.
Villareal, M. Angeles
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"Where does my menstruation come from?" Experiences and costs of menstrual hygiene management among Rwandese school girls.

PLOS Global Public Health
The Government of Rwanda recently instated a minimum menstrual hygiene management (MHM) package for all schools; however, coverage is not universal, and there remains little information on the availability or financial burden of MHM resources in rural ...
Kirsten Beata Dodroe, Lilian Nantume Wampande, Arlene Nishimwe, Mutesi Mukinisha, Janna M Schurer   +4 more
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A Cross-sectional Analytical Study to Assess the Risk Factors Associated with Menstrual Hygiene among School Going Adolescent Girls in an Aspirational District Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, India

RUHS Journal of Health Sciences
Introduction: The phenomenon of menstrual cycle practices underwent many traditional modifications, misbeliefs and further turned into ill cultural practices.
Harinder Singh, Sumit Chawla, Bharti, Ishan Arora, Shuchita Sharma, Romesh Jain, Manoj Bajaj
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Aid for Trade: Supporting the Use of Standards [PDF]

As a complementary activity to the WTO’s Doha Round of trade negotiations, the Sixth Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong, China, in 2005 mandated that technical assistance and capacity-building activities needed to be expanded so that developing ...
Lorenza Jachia
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Investments in solid waste management : opportunities for environmental improvement [PDF]

This paper presents the findings of a brief evaluation of World Bank experience in municipal solid waste management (MSWM) and recommends approaches to improving future Bank performance in this subsector. The paper is presented in four chapters.
Bartone, Carl, Bernstein, Janis, Wright, Frederick   +2 more
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Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Challenges in Latin America for the Next Decade [PDF]

, 2011
A decade after a 1999 World Bank-sponsored meeting of Latin American water and sanitation experts, there has been progress in rural sanitation in that region.
Glenn Pearce-Oroz
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Food handling practices and sanitary conditions of charitable food assistance programs in eThekwini District, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Scientific Reports
Unsafe food handling practices by food handlers have dire health and financial implications worldwide. Each year, approximately 600 million people, or about 1 in 10 people, are said to become ill from eating contaminated food, and 420,000 people ...
Sizwe Makhunga, Khumbulani Hlongwana
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The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal

Ecology and Society
The Great Stink of 1858 saw politicians in the Houses of Parliament commission a new sewer system for London at an unprecedented scale and cost. Political consensus was driven by the stench emanating from the river Thames, filled with faeces.
Ruth E Sylvester, Paul Hutchings, Anna Mdee   +2 more
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