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    Stockholm Call to Action: Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights as a Development Priority

    United Nations Population Fund, 2005
    The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government of Sweden convened the high-level roundtable, ?Reducing Poverty and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights? on 11 and 12 April 2005 in Stockholm.
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    Millennium Development Goals and Sexual and Reproductive Health: Briefing Cards

    2005
    Universal access to sexual and reproductive health education, information, and services is key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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    Public Choices, Private Decisions: Sexual and Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals

    United Nations Development Programme, 2006
    Apart from being important in and of itself, ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is instrumentally important for achieving many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report brings out the linkages between the Programme of Action from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and the MDGs.
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    Frameworks for Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict, Recovery and Reconstruction

    2006
    How does the international community respond to conflicts and crises? Responses are mainly directed to emergency relief and survival needs through the Combined Appeals Processes (CAPS) in which agencies collect baskets of proposals and submit them collectively, and through the Multi-donor Trust Funds.
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    The Program H Manual Series

    Promundo, 2004
    Program H stimulates young men to question traditional masculine gender norms (the culturally accepted definitions for being a man in a given society). It promotes discussion and reflection about both the 'costs' of traditional versions of masculinity for both men and women, and the advantages of gender equitable behaviours, such as better care of men's own health.
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    Family Violence Prevention Fund's online toolkit for Working with Men and Boys to End Gender-Based Violence

    Family Violence Prevention Fund, 2003
    In November 2003, the anti-violence NGO in the United States - the Family Violence Prevention Fund - launched an online toolkit for working with men and boys to end gender-based violence. It provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources in the form of a 10-lesson workplan.
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    Reclaiming Travesti Histories

    BRIDGE, 2006
    In pre-colonial Peru the distinctions between male and female were far more flexible than they are today. A traditional 'travesti' or transgender/transvestite identity and culture existed and played an important role in Andean religion and society. Colonial and subsequently development influences suppressed these identities and communities, although the Peruvian travesti remained.
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    Enhancing Sensuality for Safer Sex among Men in India

    BRIDGE, 2006
    Stigma and legal sanctions against homosexuality, as well as gender norms among men who have sex with men, lead to an emphasis on aggression, power play and penetration in male-to-male sex in India. This in turn contributes to low levels of condom use among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender people, and increases the risk of HIV and ill-health.
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    'Race', Culture, Power, Sex, Desire, Love: Writing in 'Men who have Sex with Men'

    BRIDGE, 2006
    Many names are given to identities and practices that suggest or involve sexual activity between men: queer, gay, homosexual, dandy, batty man, queen, bachelor, fag and so on. In international development, however, 'Men who have sex with men' (MSM) has fast become the preferred term to describe same-sex desire by men.
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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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