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  Working with Men on Gender, Sexuality, Violence and Health: Trainer's Manual

  Sahaj, Sahayog India and Tathapi, 2005

  This manual is a resource for trainers working with men and boys around issues of citizenship, rights, gender, sexuality, violence and health in India. The content is guided by a social justice and equity perspective and is 'male-centred' in its approach. There are six distinct modules: Equity and Equality, Gender, Sexuality, Health, Violence, and Facilitation Skills.
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  Female genital mutilation / cutting: a statistical exploration

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2006

  Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a traditional practice with severe health consequences for girls and women. It occurs mainly in countries along a belt stretching from Senegal in West Africa to Somalia in East Africa and to Yemen in the Middle East, but it is also practised in some parts of South-East Asia.
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  Combating gender-based violence: a key to achieving the MDGS

  United Nations Population Fund, 2005

  The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are global objectives established by developing and rich countries to measure development progress. Combating gender-based violence (GBV) is key to the achievement of the MDG goals because violence and fear of violence affects women's well-being. Men are to some extent affected as well.
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  Defending Women, Defending Rights. Proceedings of the International Consultation on Women's Human Rights Defenders

  2006

  Every day women human rights defenders around the world are subjected to abuses as they seek to protect their own rights, and those of the communities in which they live and work. This report is based on the International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRDs), held in 2005.
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  The Historical Significance of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal 2000: Overcoming the Culture of Impunity for Wartime Sexual Violence

  Kanagawa University, 2001

  In December 2000, a Women's International War Crimes Tribunal was held in Japan to hear testimonies from survivors of Japan's military sexual slavery system. The tribunal consisted of three days of hearings in front of an international panel of judges and 5,000 participants.
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  Citizenship degraded: Indian women in a modern state and a pre-modern society

  Oxfam, 2003

  One of the greatest barriers to achieving full citizenship rights for women is culture. If development organisations are to help advance women's rights and full citizenship then they must abandon explanations on the basis of ?culture? that ignore gender-based discrimination, and overcome their anxieties about appearing neo-colonial.
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  Men as partners: South African men respond to violence against women and HIV/AIDS

  EngenderHealth, 2002

  Men can, and often do, play a crucial role in promoting gender equity. This report by EngenderHealth discusses the shift within the field of sexual and reproductive health towards seeing men as an important part of the solution to HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence.
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  Male sexuality in the context of socio-economic change in rural and urban East Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have missed the point by concentrating on women's empowerment and women's ability to negotiate safer sex. HIV/AIDS work must also consider to what extent disempowered men in East Africa are motivated to practice safer sex.
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  Working with Young Men to Promote Gender Equality: An Experience in Brazil and Latin America

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Traditional beliefs about manhood in Brazil have been shown to directly correlate with unsafe sexual practices and violence against partners. This paper describes the Program H Initiative which was developed in 1999 by Instituto Promundo in Brazil and other collaborating Latin American organisations.
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  Good Women Bad Women: Addressing Violence in Women's Lives by Examining Social Constructs of Gender and Sexuality within CARE

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Can we empower women and protect them simultaneously? Gender-equity and sexual health programmes often focus on women's vulnerability and need for protection. But this is only part of the equation - another aspect of women's sexuality concerns their sexual pleasure.

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