Because I am a girl : the state of the world's girls 2010 : Digital and urban frontiers: girls in a changing landscape /
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Toronto :
Plan,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director of UN-Habitat
- Introduction. Section 1. Urban and digital frontiers
- Chapter 1. Setting the scene
- 1.1. Setting the scene: girls in cities and new technologies
- 1.2. Outlining the context and the rationale for the 2010 report. Chapter 2. Bright lights and big hopes: adolescent girls in the city
- 2.1. The global context of urbanisation and youth
- 2.2. Streets of gold? Why adolescent girls move to cities
- 2.3. Girls' legal rights in the city
- 2.4. The best recipe? The benefits of city life for adolescent girls
- 2.5. The law on girls and the right to protection from hazardous or exploitive work
- 2.6. Feature: My ideal city
- girls' drawings
- 2.7. No safe place? Preventing violence against adolescent girls in the city. Chapter 3. Hidden in plain view: adolescent girls on the streets
- 3.1. Defining disadvantage
- 3.2. Hidden in plain view
- adolescent street girls
- 3.3. "Call me by my own name"
- attitudes towards girls on the street
- 3.4. Feature: Trust is a dangerous thing
- girls living on the streets in Egypt
- 3.5. Why do adolescent girls leave home for the street?
- 3.6. "I wish I was a boy"
- sexual exploitation and abuse of adolescent girls
- 3.7. The role of the police in 'protecting' girls on the streets
- 3.8. The rights of girls in conflict with the law under international law
- 3.9. "We have dreams too"
- street girls' resilience
- 3.10. Feature: The forgotten few
- adolescent girls' experiences of detention and rehabilitation in two cities in the Philippines
- 3.11. The daily diary of Sheena
- 3.12. Adolescent girls' right to the city
- a call to action. Chapter 4. Adolescent girls and communications technologies: opportunity or exploitation?
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. The digital revolution and the digital divide
- 4.3. Giving us freedom
- why communications technologies are important for adolescent girls
- 4.4. Girls and international standards on equal access to information/media
- 4.5. Breaking the silence: girls, the super-communicators?
- 4.6. Barriers: what is keeping adolescent girls from accessing communications technologies?
- 4.7. The dark side of cyberspace
- how technology is increasing sexual exploitation
- 4.8. What laws are there to protect girls from violence, exploitation and abuse online?
- 4.9. Using the law to prosecute sexual exploitation, abuse and violence online
- 4.10. Legal responses to young people who sexually exploit others through new technologies
- 4.11. Feature: Brazilian adolescent girls in a digital world
- 4.12. Unleashing girls' potential: Recommendations on adolescent girls and ICTs
- 4.13. Conclusion. Section 2. Because we are girls: 'real choices, real lives'
- Cohort study update
- Empowered and lifted out of poverty? How our young girls and their families measure up to the Millennium Development Goals
- Cohort study map. Section 3. Reference
- Because I am a Girl campaign
- Introduction
- Mapping the MDGs: MDG1 Proportion of girls under-5 years that are underweight
- MDG2 Girls' gross primary school graduation rate
- MDG3 Proportion of girls aged 15-19 years married by age 15
- Female transition from primary to secondary education
- Estimated female earned income
- MDG4 Infant mortality rates and proportion of young women aged 20-24 years that have achieved at least secondary education
- MDG6 Ratio of young women to young men living with HIV
- References
- Girls online
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