Sexuality and reproductive rights
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- D/deaf and disabled LBT women
- Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network, 2010
- This briefing looks at research which highlights the experiences of D/deaf and disabled LBT women and gives information on organisations which provide support and why this is important. D/deaf and disabled people are often actively di...
- Ain’t I A Woman? A global dialogue between the sex workers’ rights movement and the stop violence against women movement
- B Datta / CREA, 2011
- This report arose from a dialogue hosted by CREA and CASAM in 2009 as part of CREA’s “Count Me In” programme on addressing violence against women in south Asia. The topic of the dialogue was the sensitive issue of se...
- Changing Their World 2nd edition
- S Batliwala (ed) / Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2011
- This selection of four new case studies are an addition to the well received ‘Changing Their World’, publication from 2008, which contained ten case studies and considered what we mean by women’s movements, what make...
- Sex Work and Women's Movements
- S Shah / CREA, 2011
- What relationships exist between women’s movements and sex workers’ movements? How have historical developments and discourses shaped these relationships, and what are the theoretical and strategic tensions that exist at t...
- Equal and Indivisible: Crafting inclusive shadow reports for CEDAW
- International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2010
- How can the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) be utilised as a mechanism to redress discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity? Since the adoption of CEDAW 30...
- Legal reform for protecting women’s rights in the MENA
- S. Zuhur / Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 2005
- The women’s movements in the MENA and the Islamic world are increasingly demanding equality. Despite the theoretical and spiritual quality of women in Islam, Muslim women, children, and slaves were (and are) not equal to men eit...
- Challenges faced by women and girls with disabilities in the Pacific
- D. Stubbs; S. Tawake / United Nations Development Programme, 2009
- Women and girls with disabilities experience disadvantages and discrimination based on the combination of both disability and gender-based discrimination, known as ‘intersectional discrimination’. This study aims to identi...
- Progressive transsexual laws in Iran lead to greater oppression
- R. Bahreini (ed) / Muslim World Journal of Human Rights, 2009
- The Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) punishes homosexuality with death but acknowledges transsexuality, and partially funds sex change operations. This article examines how this seemingly progressive stance on transsexuality is connecte...
- Sexual and gendered violence in Argentina
- S. Elizalde / Women and International Development Center, Michigan State University, 2008
- Institutional violence directed against young people in Argentina has involved a specific dimension of sexual and gendered violence. This article analyses some of the ideological effects and practices implicated in the current constru...
- Preventing gender based violence in Kenya
- J. Crichton; C. N. Musembi; A. Ngugi / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- Intimate-partner violence involves multiple violations of sexual and reproductive rights, with devastating impacts on the health and wellbeing of those affected. This paper from the Institute of Development Studies details the results...
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