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    International Youth Perspectives on Youth Abortion: a Collection of Essays, Poems and Drawings

    Youth Coalition, 2007
    Many adolescent girls and young women throughout the world find themselves faced with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, often as a result of a lack of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services, and/or forced sexual relations. In February 2007, the Youth Coalition began the first of five National Abortion Advocacy Workshops in Paraguay.
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    Freedom of Choice: A Youth Activist's Guide to Safe Abortion Advocacy

    Youth Coalition, 2007
    This guide aims to build young people's capacity to advocate for safe abortion care services. It is aimed at young people, people working with young people, and sexual and reproductive health and rights advocates.
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    Is Poverty a Driver for Risky Sexual Behaviour? Evidence from National Surveys of Adolescents in Four African Countries

    Bioline International, 2007
    Is there a link between poverty and 'risky' sexual behaviour? Several researchers have suggested that poverty may be a motivation for young women to engage in early sexual activity and to have multiple partners. This assertion is linked to the practice in parts of Africa for men to give women money and gifts in return for sex, which might lead poorer females to have sex earlier.
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    Development with a Body - Sexualities, Development and Human Rights

    Zed Books Limited, 2008
    In Stockholm, in April 2006, an unusual combination of people gathered together to debate the linkages between sexuality, human rights and development: an Argentinean lesbian activist, the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation, a South African sexuality researcher, a Turkish sexual rights non-governmental (NGO) organiser and a United Nations Special Rapporteur, among others.
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    SexPolitics: reports from the front lines

    Sexuality Policy Watch, 2008
    How and why are gender and sexuality being used in political power struggles within and across countries and institutions? This question was at the heart of a project launched by Sexuality Policy Watch in 2004 - a transnational, cross-cultural research initiative seeking to capture the dynamics of contemporary sexual politics.
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    BRIDGE Report 70: Key Sexuality Resources in Chinese

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
    How do young Chinese women perceive their bodies and their sexuality? How do male sex workers construct and act out their masculinity in contemporary China? Can women in Taiwan express their sexual desires and lead sexually liberated lives? What changes have taken place in the sexual lives of Chinese university students over the last ten years?
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    Hidden: a profile of married adolescents in Northern Nigeria

    Action Health Incorporated, 2006
    Research and programmes aimed at improving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) of adolescents in Nigeria have largely focused on unmarried girls and boys. But early marriage is prevalent in Nigeria, particularly in the North. In the North-West of the country, for example, an estimated 73 percent of teenage girls are married, usually to older men chosen for them by their parents.
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    Whose Sexualities Count: Poverty, Participation and Sexual Rights

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    This paper asks: what do sexuality, sexual rights and sexual pleasure have to do with citizenship, participation and rights?
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    Realising Sexual Rights

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    In late September 2005, a diverse group of people gathered together with excitement at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Brighton for a workshop on Realising Sexual Rights. Out of this event came new connections, inspiration and energy, as well as several publications, including this one - the workshop report.
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    Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Grantmaking In The Global South and East - a Global Gaze

    BRIDGE, 2007
    What is the state of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) grant-making and receiving organisations in the Global South and East? This report includes key findings about givers and receivers of LGBTI grant-making.

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