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    The LGBTIQ and sex worker movements in East Africa

    BRIDGE, 2013
    How have the emerging LGBTIQ and sex worker movements in East Africa developed and connected with each other? What lessons can be learnt about inclusive movement building for social justice and human rights?
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    Defining our space: Gender mainstreaming strategies in the work of GPPAC – the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict

    BRIDGE, 2013
    What strategies have been used by the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) to encourage the integration of gender perspectives into its work? What have been the roles of women’s organisations and activists in this process?
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    The Amnesty International journey: women and human rights

    BRIDGE, 2013
    This case study, written especially for the BRIDGE Cutting Edge programme on gender and social movements, looks at Amnesty’s efforts over 25 years to integrate women’s rights into its work. It is based on a review of relevant literature and first hand interviews with human rights activists including those who have worked with Amnesty in the past, as well as some current staff.
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    Gender, activism and backlash: women and social mobilisation in Egypt

    BRIDGE, 2013
    The revolutions of 2011 in Tunis, Egypt and Libya were brought about by an accumulation of unresolved tensions, unbridled autocracy and many injustices. In Egypt as elsewhere, the demonstrations that filled the squares and streets with millions of women and men were not organised by formal political parties or sustained by political structures.
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    Who is the 99%? Feminist perspectives on Occupy

    BRIDGE, 2013
    After the revolution in Tahrir Square, the Occupy movement is, perhaps, the most significant mass social movement of this decade. How did the movement emerge, and where was gender justice and women’s rights on its agenda?
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    Gender equality and women’s rights in the CLOC-Via Campesina movement

    BRIDGE, 2013
    What strategies have women leaders in the CLOC-Via Campesina movement used to integrate gender equality into the movement’s external work and internal dynamics?
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    World Social Forum: Integrating feminism and women activists into visions and practices of “another world”

    BRIDGE, 2013
    How has the World Social Forum included women’s rights and gender justice during its history? How are feminists working to change the forum? This short case study, written especially for the BRIDGE Cutting Edge programme on gender and social movements, pulls together commentaries of gender at the WSF in recent years.
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    A tale of two movements: how women's rights became human rights

    BRIDGE, 2013
    Where and when have human rights movements and women’s movements converged, and how have they informed and changed one another? Since Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), the concept of ‘natural rights’ (granted to humans as ‘God’ intended) as put forward by philosophers was found to be lacking an understanding of the realities of women’s lives ordered around patriarch
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    Positioning in global feminist critical collaboration: self-reflexive talk among Manila-based feminists

    Isis International, Phillipines, 2006
    This Isis International-Manila paper contributes to the global feminist self-reflexive process to revitalise feminist politics, strategies for inter-movement collaboration, institutional engagements, and organisational ethics. In a series of discussions among Manila-based regional and international feminists, positioning theory was used to analyse discursively-constructed feminist practice.
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    Defying the odds: lessons learned from Men for Gender Equality Now

    African Women's Development & Communication Network, 2009
    Men for Gender Equality Now (MEGEN) was initially set up as a project within FEMNET. It is now registered as an independent organisation, with more than 200 active members, working in 7 districts and 15 constituencies around Kenya. MEGEN has found that that there are many men even in the most traditional and patriarchal societies that believe in and support gender equality.

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