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    Good Choice: the Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health

    Panos Institute, London, 2007
    This is the fourth document in a series of briefings for the media from the Panos RELAY programme, which works with Southern print and broadcast journalists to communicate the findings of academic research in an accessible way. Journalists can play a key role in getting important sexual and reproductive issues debated publicly.
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    Women with Disabilities: Accessing Trade

    Status of Women Canada, 2004
    How do trade policies in Canada affect women with disabilities? Disabled women already have a greater propensity to be on low incomes. Gender and disability combine to deepen inequalities in access to jobs and remuneration. This leaves many women with disabilities more reliant on public funded support.
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    Human Security and Aboriginal Women in Canada

    Status of Women Canada, 2005
    Aboriginal women in Canada are at the forefront of resistance when it comes to threats to their land and culture. This is the conclusion of this study, which examines the links between Aboriginal women, protest and human security. The study shows that restrictions on fishing rights, expansion in logging, and ski-resort development are being fiercely fought by Aboriginal women.
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    Out and About - Towards a Better Understanding of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Persons in the Workplace

    Parks Canada, 2005
    For many GBLT employees, not revealing sexual orientation or gender identity can inhibit professional and personal development, yet 'coming-out' can result in bullying and discrimination. This brochure provides information on how to improve GBLT people's wellbeing at work and outlines the individual rights of GBLT people, as well as employers obligations to GBLT.
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    The Yogyakarta Principles: Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.

    Yogyakarta Principles, 2007
    The Yogyakarta Principles are a set of principles on the application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity.
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    My Unconventional Wedding

    BRIDGE, 2006
    In China marriage is the norm. Many people get married, including gay men marrying women (straight or not), for reasons of convenience and under social pressure, but also for reasons of pleasure and through choice. However, gay men who marry women are often blamed by the gay community for not being gay enough, or by health authorities for transmitting HIV and endangering society.
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    The Vanishing Victim: Criminal Law and Gender in Jordan

    Blackwell Synergy, 2007
    Criminal codes in Jordan are markedly gendered. This article analyses how the penalties for rape, domestic violence and honour killings reflect local norms of appropriate gender roles and society's desire to rectify the social standing and ?honour? of a raped woman and her family, rather than to punish the crime.
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    Honoring the Killers: Justice Denied For ?Honor? Crimes In Jordan

    2007
    In Jordan, a woman's life is at risk if she engages in ?immoral or shameful? acts, such as talking with a man not her husband, even in public, or marrying someone her family does not approve of. ?Honour? killings in Jordan rarely carry a sentence of more than one year of imprisonment.
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    Defining sexual health: report of a technical consultation on sexual health, 28-31 January, 2002, Geneva

    World Health Organization, 2006
    A technical consultation on sexual health was convened in Geneva, Switzerland, from 28 to 31 January 2002, as a joint effort between the World Health Organisation and the World Association of Sexology, and funded by the Ford Foundation.
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    BRIDGE Occasional paper: Gender and Sex - a sample of definitions

    BRIDGE, 2006
    There has been much debate regarding the meanings of 'gender' and 'sex'. Gender is most commonly used as a contrasting term to sex, as that which is socially or culturally constructed as opposed to that which is biologically given.

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