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  Not So Strange Bedfellows: Sexual Rights and International Development

  Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

  Is sexuality less important than poverty? This article, based on a session facilitated by BRIDGE at the 2005 Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID) conference, explores the connections between development and sexuality. The speakers argue that sexuality is itself a survival issue.
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  Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

  Eldis, 2006

  Development agencies have long addressed issues of sexuality and reproduction. However traditionally they have dealt with them in largely negative ways. Whether through population programmes or the use of scare tactics in HIV prevention work, sexuality has been regarded as a problem that needs to be controlled rather than as a positive force that can be part of the solution.
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  The pleasure project: global mapping of pleasure

  The Pleasure Project, 2004

  How can a focus on pleasure help promote safer sex? The Pleasure Project mapped initiatives taken around the world which use pleasure as a primary motivation for promoting sexual health.
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  Getting it right, doing it right: gender and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  How can international assistance operations address the specific needs of women and girls in a practical way when planning in post-conflict situations? Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) interventions often focus primarily on goals of disarming men rather than acknowledging there are women combatants or women supporters of armed groups.
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  Annotated bibliography: sexuality and human rights

  International Women's Health Coalition, 2002

  This bibliography provides summaries of 28 key materials on sexuality and human rights, and a list of further references. The summarised material provides an overview of the key issues in current work on sexual rights/sexuality and human rights.
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  Rapid situation analysis of men who have sex with men in the Maghreb and Lebanon

  International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2005

  This report, from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, examines the needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon. The analysis aimed to gain a better understanding of the sexual health needs of MSM in the region; and of their social, emotional, community and economic needs to help develop focused HIV prevention and support programmes in a Muslim context.
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  Sex Lives in the Aids Era

  2004

  This book proposes that to prevent AIDS, instead of always just talking about risk, safer more enjoyable sex lives should be promoted. This book argues that the sex workers are not transmitters of HIV/AIDS but are the first line of victims. The real infectors are the men who go whoring and have other sexual partners. Among these the most dangerous infectors are the men who do not use condoms.
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  Sex for pleasure, Rights to Participation, and Alternatives to AIDS: Placing Sexual Minorities and/or Dissidents in Development

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004

  The term sexual minorities and/or dissidents is used here to describe lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people. These people have usually only been openly included or allowed to participate in the development industry in relation to HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS is an important entry point, but brings with it negative associations of sickness and stigma.
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  Cutting edge pack: gender and migration

  BRIDGE, 2005

  In 2000, 1 in every 35 people was an international migrant and half of these were women. The total numbers of people moving internally and the proportions of women among them are even higher. People's experiences of gender are central to the patterns, causes and impacts of migration. Gender roles, relations and inequalities affect who migrates, how, why, and where they end up.
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  Gender, HIV and Human Rights: A Training Manual

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  This training manual is for community-based AIDS workers, public health staff, educators, other practitioners and policy makers. Community-based AIDS projects that enhance the decision-making power of women are very successful in preventing transmission and supporting women in caring for people who are affected by HIV/AIDS.

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