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“For Women and Girls in Benin, Multi-Faceted Gender Reforms Offer New Opportunities.” World Bank, www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2023/03/01/for-women-and-girls-in-benin-multi-faceted-gender-reforms-offer-new-opportunities.

This site covers new reforms about laws on Gender Based Violence. In the context of the Wikipedia page, it provides useful information to add to the discrimination and abuse section. It provides information about the experience of gender-based violence in Benin and how it affects the women and society as a whole. It covers the steps made to assist and improve the safety of women and how the experience of GBV survivors has been improved. It also discusses how the persecution of such crimes has been made easier with less fees required for the survivors and harsher punishments for those who commit such crimes. It contains useful statistics regarding the number of people who will be affected by GBV in Benin as well as the toll it extracts on Benin society, specifically how it results in girls being pulled out of school for their safety. This site is authoritative because it comes from a group that works with over 189 countries to reduce poverty and promote equality within them.

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“Gender-Based Violence in Benin: Working toward Sustainable Care | Benin | News.” U.S. Agency for International Development, 9 Mar. 2023, www.usaid.gov/benin/news/may-23-2022-gender-based-violence-benin-working-toward-sustainable-care. Accessed 23 Nov. 2023.

This site covers the One Stop Care centers in Benin that aid survivors of GBV. This site is created by USAID who funds and supports these centers. It covers useful information regarding GBV and explains the facilities that survivors can go to for help. It also has statistics for how many people have been helped by these centers and how they are able to help. This site is authoritative becomes it comes from USAID to cover information about the One Stop Care Centers.

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Bodeau-Livinec, Florence, et al. “Assessing the Effects of Maternal Anemia on Child Development in Benin.” Springer EBooks, 1 Jan. 2013, pp. 203–214, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6834-9_10. Accessed 23 Nov. 2023.

This article covers the issue Benin faces with anemia, especially on pregnant women. It is useful to add content to the Health Issues section that briefly covers Benin's issues with anemia. It has useful statistics regarding how many women suffer with anemia as well as the affects is has on their health, the process of their pregnancy, and how it will affect their newborn child. This article is authoritative as it was a study conducted and written by several doctors to be published book about neuropsychology of African Children.

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Omorodion, Francisca. “Sexual networking among market women in Benin City Bendel State Nigeria.” Health transition review (1993): 159-169.

This paper covers the health issues surrounding the Market Women of Benin. This paper was very useful in filling in the health issues section. It goes over research done exploring the lives of Market Women and how they are affected by health problems stemming from sexual relations performed for economic purposes. There is a high rate of HIV and AIDS due to many women having sex with strangers and the paper goes over the reasons why this sex occurs. It also covers relations that occur outside of marriages for the purpose of economic gains and how those relations also contribute to the larger issue of STD circulation. In addition, many women can't get adequate treatment for such ailments due to limited access to proper healthcare facilities or due to lack of education to be able to seek out needed help. It is authoritative because it is an anthropological study on various women in Benin who have HIV or know someone with it due to sexual networking.

Villamor, Grace. “Men and Women Farmers in Benin Are Responding Differently to Climate Change.” The Conversation, theconversation.com/men-and-women-farmers-in-benin-are-responding-differently-to-climate-change-72110.

‌This source provided a small but useful section of information to be added to the Women in the Workplace section. This section was particularly difficult to find sources for so finding one that provided statistics was very helpful. It covers women in Benin working in agriculture and the impact it has on the economy. It also covers the difference in the way that men and women are being impacted by climate change which impedes their crop growth and harvests. It is authoritative because it is written by a senior researcher from the University of Bonn who was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education.

“In Benin, Acting Together to Improve Girls’ Education | Blog | Global Partnership for Education.” Www.globalpartnership.org, www.globalpartnership.org/blog/benin-acting-together-improve-girls-education. Accessed 8 Dec. 2023.

This article covers information regarding reforms for education for women in Benin. This article covers various factors that impede the education of women in Benin such as violence, poverty, and illiteracy, as well as provides some statistics on the education system for women that can be used. It also contains various ways in which the government of Benin have worked into improve the education experience for women in hopes of improving education rates. It also covers how Benin is tackling larger societal issues that impede the women's ability to receive proper education such as child marriage. It is authoritative because it is from GPE which is the largest global fund that is solely dedicated to improving education is lower-income countries.

ssuplita. “Mothers Fight for Girls’ Education in Benin.” World Education, 3 May 2019, worlded.org/mothers-fight-for-girls-education-in-benin/.

‌This article covers a specific initiative done by World Education in Benin. They instated a Mother's program which acts to support girls in both having access to education and also managing the problems they face while getting an education. The program helps to reduce GBV in school settings as well as to fight against societal aspects that prevent women from getting an education such as young marriage and pregnancy as well as fighting the notion that women are meant to do domestic work. It is authoritative as it is written by World Education who is a group of education development experts who work around the world to improve education conditions in countries that need it.

“Benin.” Www.unaids.org, www.unaids.org/en/keywords/benin. Accessed 8 Dec. 2023.

‌This article covers the HIV and AIDs issues that Women in Benin face. It goes over the steps the government of Benin has taken in recent years to expand healthcare services and availability to HIV and AIDs patients. It provides lots of helpful statistics surrounding HIV and AIDs in Benin and covers the improvements made to services that prevent HIV transfer from mothers to their children during birth. It is written by UNAIDS which is the leading organization dedicated to fighting AIDS globally.

Ayoya, Mohamed Ag, et al. “Maternal Anaemia in West and Central Africa: Time for Urgent Action.” Public Health Nutrition, vol. 15, no. 5, 6 Oct. 2011, pp. 916–927, https://doi.org/10.1017/s1368980011002424. Accessed 9 Feb. 2020.

‌This article provides details regarding the problems Benin has with anaemia during pregnancy. It goes over the general reasons why Benin has higher rates of anemia during pregnancy. It also has information about the demographics of women who are most affected by anaemia. It goes over the impacts anaemia has on the health of those who are affected by it as well. It is authoritative because it is a study and article conducted and published as art of Public Health Nutrition from Cambridge University.

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