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  Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007

  Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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  How to Guide: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Programme in Liberia

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2001

  How can sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) be tackled in a refugee setting? This guide advocates for a multisectoral approach which brings together a range of organisations working in the medical, legal, and security sectors, with the refugee community, to tackle SGBV in participatory 'survivor' centred ways.
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  BRIDGE Bibliography 15: Engaging men in gender equality: positive strategies and approaches: overview and annotated bibliography

  Siyanda, 2006

  In various settings, small numbers of men and boys are changing their attitudes and behaviour towards women - supporting opportunities for women to earn an income outside the home, or speaking out against gender-based violence, for example. What makes this kind of resistance to rigid views of gender possible?
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  Rights of the Body and Perversions of War: Sexual Rights and Wrongs Ten Years Past Beijing

  2005

  Much groundbreaking work has been done by the movement against Violence against Women. At the same time, however, the emphasis on violence has produced an image of third world women as helpless victims of culture which dovetails with right wing rhetoric about preserving women's chastity. In contrast to women, sexual violence against men has been less visible.
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  Sharia Implementation in Nigeria: The Journey so far

  2003

  Generally Sharia refers to principles which are accepted by Muslims to be Allah's will for human societies. The principles may be generally agreed, but there are also variations in how they are interpreted. Sharia provides for codes of ethics, social interactions, and legal systems.
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  Responding to Violence Against Women: How Development Policies Address the Issue of Gender-Based Violence

  2006

  The paper highlights the shortcomings of current development policies designed to tackle violence against women (VAW). It proposes a new framework based on a body politics approach to address VAW. The paper argues that the current discourse on women's sexuality perpetuates violence against women by legitimising the use of their bodies for political, cultural and economic consolidation.
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  Patriarchal Violence - an Attack on Human Security: a Broad Survey of Measures to Combat Patriarchal Violence and Oppression, Particularly Acts Committed in the Name of Honour Directed at Women, Homosexuals, Bisexuals and Transgender Persons.

  Government Offices of Sweden, 2006

  Understandings of patriarchal violence usually focus on male violence against women. However, this paper links patriarchy and the violence and oppression directed towards lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) persons. Patriarchy is based on perceptions of male supremacy and within this power structure the norm of the heterosexual male is dominant.
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  Working with Men on Gender, Sexuality, Violence and Health: Trainer's Manual

  Sahaj, Sahayog India and Tathapi, 2005

  This manual is a resource for trainers working with men and boys around issues of citizenship, rights, gender, sexuality, violence and health in India. The content is guided by a social justice and equity perspective and is 'male-centred' in its approach. There are six distinct modules: Equity and Equality, Gender, Sexuality, Health, Violence, and Facilitation Skills.
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  Male sexuality in the context of socio-economic change in rural and urban East Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have missed the point by concentrating on women's empowerment and women's ability to negotiate safer sex. HIV/AIDS work must also consider to what extent disempowered men in East Africa are motivated to practice safer sex.
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  Regulation of Disabled Women's Sexuality

  2004

  Sexuality is treated as either irrelevant or problematic in relation to disability. Issues such as sexual information, sexual relationships, sexual activity and sexual abuse are often excluded from disability theories, rights movements and development policies. Perhaps as a result, society also tends to expect disabled people, particularly women, to act as asexual beings.

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