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    Gender and Sexuality Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 18: Sexuality

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being.
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    Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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    Child Soldiers: What About the Girls?

    Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2001
    From 1990 to 2000 girls were active in armed conflicts in at least 32 countries. Although young girls take on significant duties in conflicts, they have received scant attention.
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    Gender, remittances and development: the case of women migrants from Vicente Noble, Dominican Republic

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    How important is gender in understanding processes of migration and remittances in development, and in analysing the impacts on both migrants and remittance recipients? This case study of Dominican migration to Spain is one of several conducted by INSTRAW.
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    Men's Participation as Fathers in the Latin American and Caribbean Region: A Critical Literature Review with Policy Considerations

    Promundo, 2008
    If men's involvement as fathers is generally positive - for children, women, and men themselves - how can we promote this through policies and programmes? This comprehensive document provides a literature overview and analysis of men's participation as fathers in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
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    Reproductive Education and Responsible Fatherhood in Central America

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2002
    What are the links between fatherhood and poverty? What can be done to change gender patterns of behaviour around parenthood? This programme on Reproductive Education and Responsible Fatherhood, carried out by the Mexican office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), explores the social and economic factors which prohibit men from being responsible fathers.
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    Joint Parenting, Advocacy in Senegal

    2002
    What advocacy mechanisms and initiatives can be put in place to encourage men to take joint responsibility for their families? This project on 'Joint Parenting Advocacy in Senegal' was carried out by ENDA Tiers-Monde with the support of the Acacia Initiative of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
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    Transforming our Initiatives for Gender Equality by Addressing and Involving Men and Boys: a Framework for Analysis and Action

    2004
    Leaving out boys and men from gender and development work is a recipe for failure. But how can we effectively involve men in practice? This chapter discusses a framework for addressing and involving men in gender equality initiatives, drawing on examples from the White Ribbon Campaign, a campaign that aims to engage men and boys in the struggle to end men's violence against women.
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    Working with Men and Boys to Promote Gender Equality and to End Violence Against Boys and Girls

    BRIDGE, 2005
    Interventions that treat men as the villains and women as the victims have not taken us far. Not all masculinities (or ways of being a man) are harmful to men, women and children.

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