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  Human Rights Violations Against the Transgender Community: A Study of Kothi and Hijra Sex Workers in Bangalore, India

  Karnataka, 2003

  This report, through a collection of personal narratives, attempts to provide an understanding of the life of the transgender community in Bangalore.
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  Understanding the Challenges Facing Gay and Lesbian South Africans: Some Guidelines for Service Providers

  International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2006

  While constitutional and legal protection exists in South Africa for gay and lesbian people, many gays and lesbians still experience victimisation and many are unaware of their rights or are afraid to put them into practice.
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  Voices from Nigeria: Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenders speak out about the Same-Sex Bill

  International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2006

  In January 2006, the Nigerian Minister for Justice presented to the Nigerian Federal Council a bill that would create criminal penalties for anyone engaging in same-sex marriage or relationships, and which launches a vigorous attack on freedom of expression, assembly, and association.
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  Advocating for Sexual rights in Fundamentalist Contexts: An Overview of Successful Experiences from a Variety of Contexts

  2007

  ?Your voice is fundamental against fundamentalisms?. This was the core idea behind a dialogue coordinated by Catholics for a Free Choice Cordoba and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) on the interference of fundamentalisms in the defence of sexual rights in the Latin America region.
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  LGBTI Organising in East Africa: The True Test for Human Rights Defenders

  Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, 2005

  Sexual activities and identities that go against the grain of mainstream heterosexuality and expected gender behaviour - most visibly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) - are frequently subject to social repression in the form of verbal abuse, silence, hate crimes, 'corrective rape' of lesbians, honour-related violence and forced marriage.
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  Putting Sexuality (Back) into HIV/AIDS: Issues, Theory and Practice

  Routledge, 2007

  After more than 20 years of programming and activism aimed at stemming the sexual transmission of HIV, the epidemic continues to grow worldwide. This paper argues that one of the reasons for the limited success of HIV prevention initiatives is the marginalisation of sexuality in HIV and AIDS programming.
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  Sexuality and Rights Workshop: Meeting Summary

  2007

  This paper documents the presentations given at a Sexuality Rights Workshop in Bangladesh in January 2007. The presentations drew on a diverse range of ongoing research and projects working with urban and rural populations in Bangladesh on sexual and reproductive health and gender.
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  Feminist Africa 6: subaltern sexualities

  Feminist Africa, 2006

  Current writings on sexuality have begun to challenge dominant understandings of masculinity and femininity in Africa. Yet much of this writing examines only how sexuality underwrites heterosexual masculine and feminine identities. The contributors to this issue of Feminist Africa seek to explore the diversity of sexualities that exist in Africa.
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  “As if they were watching my body”: pornography and the development of attitudes towards sex and sexual behaviour among Cambodian youth

  Child Rights Information Network, 2006

  A significant percentage of Cambodian boys and girls are exposed to extremely hard-core pornography. This report explores how representation of sexual practices in extreme hard-core pornography can affect Cambodian children and their developing gender relations and identities.
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  Gender-Based Violence, Relationship Power, and Risk of HIV Infection in Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in South Africa

  Gender Advocacy Programme, South Africa, 2004

  Gender-based violence and gender inequality are increasingly cited as important determinants of women's HIV risk; yet empirical research on possible connections remains limited. This report presents findings of a cross-sectional study of 1366 at four health centres in Soweto, South Africa, who accepted routine antenatal HIV testing.

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