Human rights
Latest Additions
- Supporting women human rights defenders
- ( Oxfam Novib , 2007)
-
Women human rights defenders are women who defend human rights as well as those who defend sexuality-related rights. This guidebook is designed to support the ongoing process of enhancing the under...
Why is access to female condoms failing?
- ( Oxfam , 2008)
-
Since the beginning of the HIV pandemic, many girls and women have struggled to protect themselves from infection, even when fully aware of the facts of HIV transmission. This report highlights how...
How should violence be prevented in South Africa?
- ( R. Fuller;V. Williams;N. Jaynes;Z. Nkongolo / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa , 2008)
-
In May 2008, South Africa was shaken by an outbreak of a wave of violence characterised by an intensity and fierceness previously unknown in this young democracy and reminiscent of apartheid bloods...
- Vulnerability, impact and action in human trafficking
- ( UN global initiative to fight trafficking , 2008)
-
Issues such as disempowerment, social exclusion and economic vulnerability are the result of policies and practices that marginalise entire groups of people and make them vulnerable to ...
- Forced marriage in the Lords Resistence Army, Uganda
- ( K. Carlson;D. Mazurana / Feinstein International Center, USA , 2008)
-
This paper focuses on the experiences of those women and girls forcibly married within the Lords Resistence Army (LRA) in Uganda, and their attempts to reintegrate in civilian life after captivity....
- Young men's reports of fear and violence in a South African prison
- ( S. Gear / Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa , 2007)
-
Violence, described as endemic to South African Correctional Centres is generally under-reported and a severe hindrance to the Department of Correctional Services’ current and ambitious visio...
- How South Africa responds to Zimbabwean women fleeing violence
- ( Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa , 2006)
-
Large numbers of Zimbabwean women are fleeing their homes and even their country to avoid violence. This report was written to coincide with South Africa's 'Sixteen days on gender activism'. It sho...
- Gender and sexual relations in South Africa
- ( N. N. Nyawo;R. Sathiparsad;M. Taylor / Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center , 2006)
-
Gender is a culture-specific construct, and the unequal power balance in gender relations that favours males has been shown to be associated with the transmission of HIV/AIDS. This qualitative stud...
Is heterosexuality fuelling the HIV pandemic?
- ( P Jaffray / Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Center , 2008)
-
This paper examines the issues relating to heterosexist notions of masculinity, femininity and sexuality within the context of the HIV and AIDS pandemic currently being experienced in South Africa....
- Enhancing the rights of women to own and inherit property in Kenya
- ( D Nyong’o;O Ongalo / Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington , 2005)
-
The right to own and inherit property is a crosscutting right that traverses the realm of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. Emerging legal and social trends, as they relate to...
