Recommended readings
- Sexual orientation and gender identity issues in development: a study of Swedish policy and administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues in international development cooperation
- ( L. Samelius; E. Wagberg / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2005)
- Recommended reading
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This report is based on a study of Swedish policy and administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) and intersex issues in international development cooperation.
Key findings show ...
- Anatomy of a backlash: sexuality and the ‘cultural’ war on human rights
- ( S. Lang / Human Rights Watch , 2005)
- Recommended reading
- This paper from Human Rights Watch highlights the growing alliance of conservative forces, or fundamentalists, which is threatening progress made over the past decade in linking sexuality, health and ...
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights: a cornerstone of development
- ( Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency , 2005)
- Recommended reading
- In this paper, the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (Sida) sets out its policy on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). It argues that violations of the right to sexua...
- Unsafe abortion: global and regional estimates of incidence of unsafe abortion and associated mortality in 2000
- ( World Health Organization , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- These World Health Organization estimates on unsafe abortion are based on figures for the year 2000. They indicate that 19 million unsafe abortions are performed each year, almost all in developing co...
- Dreams & desires: sexual and reproductive health experiences of HIV positive women
- ( International Planned Parenthood Federation , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This publication from the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW) explores the specific sexual and reproductive health is...
- Reproductive health services and intimate partner violence
- ( C. Watts; S. Mayhew / Alan Guttmacher Institute , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- Published by Alan Guttmacher Institute, this article highlights findings from a number of small-scale, community-based studies which indicate that intimate partner violence is an important factor affe...
- Investing in people: national progress in implementing the ICPD programme of action 1994-2004
- ( United Nations Population Fund , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This report from UNFPA presents results from a global survey of national experiences ten years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) Programme of Action was agreed in...
- Sex for pleasure, rights to participation, and alternatives to AIDS: placing sexual minorities and/or dissidents in development
- ( A. Gosine / Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This IDS working paper highlights some of the contradictions between rights and participation by examining the ways in which participation of sexual minorities and/or dissidents is framed in the devel...
- Overcoming barriers to reproductive health care in post-conflict Afghanistan: a participatory study
- ( Marie Stopes International , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- Produced by Marie Stopes International, this research study looks at barriers to the use of family planning and other reproductive health services in Afghanistan. Findings showed that family planning...
- Oh! This one is infected!: women, HIV & human rights in the Asia-Pacific region
- ( S. Paxton / International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS , 2004)
- Recommended reading
- This paper, commissioned by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, sets out to explain the varied reasons why a significant majority of women in the Asia Pacific region are dispropor...
- Population, reproductive health and the Millennium Development Goals: how the ICPD Programme of Action promotes poverty alleviation and human rights
- ( United Nations Population Fund , 2003)
- Recommended reading
- In the year 2000, a set of goals to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world (afterwards called the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs) were adopted at the historic Millennium Summit at ...
- Power in sexual relationships: an opening dialogue among reproductive health professionals
- ( Population Council, USA , 2001)
- Recommended reading
- This report, produced by the Population Council, summarises the proceedings of a meeting to discuss the role of power in sexual relationships. The discussions indicate that gender-based power inequali...
- Female genital cutting: breaking the silence, enabling change
- ( J. M. Masterson; J. H. Swanson / International Center for Research on Women, USA , 2000)
- Recommended reading
- This report, from the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) and The Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), synthesises the experiences, lessons and recommendations from ...
