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  Men's reproductive health curriculum

  Engender Health, 2003

  This training package is designed to provide a broad range of health care workers with the skills and sensitivity needed to work with male clients and provide men's reproductive health services.The "Counseling and Communicating with Men" section focuses on strengthening service providers' ability to interact with, communicate with, and counsel men—with or without their partners—on reproductive
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  Working with street children: understanding sexual and reproductive health including HIV/AIDS and STDs among street children

  World Health Organization, 2000

  Although the typical age of a street child varies from place to place, the age range includes children in the adolescent period, and street children are exposed to situations that make them vulnerable to sexual and reproductive health problems on a day to day basis.
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  Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: Fourth World Conference on Women

  Education Sector, UNESCO, 1995

  This document, published by UNESCO, contains the declaration made by governments at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995, and the related “Platform for Action” – an agenda for women’s empowerment. The declaration affirms a commitment to gender equality and the realisation of women and girls’ rights.
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  Sexual but not reproductive: exploring the junctions and disjunctions of sexual and reproductive rights

  Health and Human Rights, 2000

  This article from the journal Health and Human Rights examines the concept of sexual and reproductive rights and argues that the term itself poses a challenge. In particular, the article suggests that the conflation of sexual rights with reproductive rights has caused sexual rights to be seen as a subset of reproductive rights.
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  Sexuality, human rights and demographic thinking: connections and disjunctions in a changing world

  Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC, 2004

  This article from the journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy examines the changing debate on ethics and demography (the study of human population), in particular its shift in emphasis from the public good to individual rights, including those relating to sexuality.
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  Annotated bibliography: sexuality and human rights

  International Women's Health Coalition, 2002

  This bibliography, published by the International Women’s Health Coalition, introduces the issues of sexual rights, sexuality and human rights, providing summaries of 28 key documents and a list of further references.
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  Sexual and reproductive health & HIV/AIDS: a framework for priority linkages

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2005

  This document, produced jointly by IPPF, UNFPA, UNAIDS, and the WHO, proposes a set of key policy and programme actions to strengthen linkages between SRH (sexual and reproductive health) and HIV and AIDS programmes. Key linkages include: learning HIV status, promoting safer sex, optimising connections between the two programmes, and integrating HIV and AIDS with maternal and infant health.
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  Integrating adolescent livelihood activities within a reproductive health programme for urban slum dwellers in India

  Population Council, USA, 2005

  This paper describes a pilot livelihood activities and reproductive health intervention and its impact aimed at adolescent girls aged 14-19 living in urban slums in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. The project was initiated based on the recognition of the relative disadvantage of adolescent girls and in an effort to build the evidence base for adolescent livelihoods programmes.
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  Anatomy of a backlash: sexuality and the ‘cultural’ war on human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2005

  This paper from Human Rights Watch highlights the growing alliance of conservative forces, or fundamentalists, which is threatening progress made over the past decade in linking sexuality, health and human rights.
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  Implications of U.S. policy restrictions on programs aimed at commercial sex workers and victims of trafficking worldwide

  Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2005

  This policy brief from CHANGE, examines the implications of the United States (US) Global AIDS Act, which bars the use of federal funds to promote, support or advocate the legalisation or practice of prostitution. The brief outlines how these policies and restrictions have numerous adverse implications for effective HIV prevention and the promotion of human rights and public health.

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