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  The Club for Women's Advancement

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Sexuality remains a sensitive issue in Vietnamese society. Between 2000 and 2003, Viet Nam Family Planning Association (VINAFPA) - a local non-governmental organisation (NGO)- implemented a project to address the issues of reproductive health rights, gender equality and domestic violence in Vietnam. Four pilot ?Clubs for Women's Advancement? were set up.
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  Feminist Reflections on China's Criminal Law

  2004

  From a feminist perspective China's Criminal Law on the one hand manifests respect for women in that that it includes a whole battery of punishments for crimes against women; on the other hand, it manifests sexism in the legislators' sub-consciousness in that only women (and children) are considered at risk of being bought, sold, or raped, while such crimes against men are excluded.
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  Good practices in combating and eliminating violence against women

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2005

  Violence against women takes place in the family, the general community and is perpetrated or condoned by the State. Violence can take physical, sexual and psychological forms impacting on women's well being and the enjoyment of their human rights.
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  Gender Based Violence Study

  BRIDGE, 2005

  This report emphasises the need for more strategic efforts by organisations working in conflict areas to address both the short- and long-term realities and consequences of gender based violence (GBV).
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  From Thought to Action: Building Strategies on Violence Against Women

  KRITI: a development research, praxis and communication team, 2004

  This book presents a conceptual framework within which to understand gender-based violence, especially physical violence. It also suggests strategies that can be used by NGO fieldworkers and activists to prevent and eliminate this form of violence at home, at the workplace, on the streets and in society in general.
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  Streetwalkers Show the Way - Reframing the Debate on Trafficking from Sex Workers' Perspective

  BRIDGE, 2004

  Ending trafficking into sex work requires measures to ensure all brothel owners and managers abide by norms barring them from recruiting trafficked sex workers. Durbar, the West Bengal Sex Workers Collective, established local Self-Regulatory Boards in Calcutta in 1999 and later, across West Bengal.
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  Upholding the Rights of Refugees in the UK

  Refugee Women's Resource Project, 2005

  UK officials still hold a traditional image of a refugee as a male activist, persecuted for his involvement in protests against the state. They lack awareness of the kinds of persecution women are more likely to face, such as rape and sexual violence, forced sterilisation, genital mutilation and domestic violence, against which they cannot get state protection.
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  Breaking the Cycle of Violence: A Last Chance for Haiti

  Amnesty International, 2004

  Living conditions in Haiti after the internal conflict and the departure of President Aristide are characterized by violence, insecurity and lawlessness. As a result, politically motivated, sexual and other forms of violence against women (e.g., intimidation, persecution and rape) are now widespread.
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  Women, violence and health

  Amnesty International, 2005

  Globally women and girls are regularly beaten and sexually abused by intimate partners, family members, neighbours, and by strangers. Women also suffer gender-based violence during and after conflicts and wars. This paper examines how gender based violence is perpetrated, in physical and social forms, in families, in communities, and during and after conflict.
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  Haiti: How to Achieve a Justice System that Takes Gender Equality into Account

  Ministere a la Condition Femenine et aux Droits des Femmes, 1990

  After an analysis of women's situation in Haiti, the national Ministry of Women's Affairs (Minist?re - la Condition Feminine et aux Droits des Femmes - MCFDF) has come up with 3 areas that should be seen by the state as priorities for intervention and reform: violence against women, legal discrimination on the basis of gender, and the feminisation of poverty.

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