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    Gender climate change and health

    2009
    This paper by the World Health Organisation (WHO) focuses on the ways in which gender factors into both the vulnerability and the adaptive capacity of people effected by the health impacts of climate change. This information is organised into the two following perspectives:
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    Traditional leaders wield the power, and they are almost all men: the importance of involving traditional leaders in gender transformation

    Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2010
    How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tackle social issues such as HIV, gender equality and violence in rural African communities? A number of them, including Sonke Gender Justice network, the Ubuntu Institute, CARE International and Zambian Women for Change (WFC) are working with traditional leaders as a gateway to reach the people in communities they are targeting.
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    Masculinity and Civil Wars in Africa – New Approaches to Overcoming Sexual Violence in War

    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2009
    An analysis of the different roles that men and women can play as a conflict unfolds offers new perspectives to help understand wars and restore peace in post-war societies. Sustainable peace building requires, among other things, addressing the behaviour and thinking of violent actors and preventing re-establishment of the old discordant social order.
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    Bring me my machine gun: Contesting patriarchy and rape culture in the wake of the Jacob Zuma rape trial

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Opening with a harrowing account of the trauma inflicted by rape on a gender activist in South Africa, and of the barriers she faced in bringing her case to trial, this paper draws out key lessons about rape in South Africa. The paper firstly points to the endemic nature of violence in South Africa and to the impunity with which it is committed.
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    Vulnerability in Masculinities: Straightening Out a Queer Concept in HIV, Gender and Development?

    2007
    Vulnerability' has become a key concept in drawing linkages between HIV, gender and development. This paper argues, however, that misunderstandings of the term vulnerability have tended to reinforce unhelpful gender stereotypes and have alienated men from engaging in HIV prevention efforts.
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    "Brothers are Doing it for Themselves": Remaking Masculinities in South Africa

    BRIDGE, 2007
    The AIDS pandemic in South Africa has contributed towards prising open questions on sexuality, sexual rights and masculinity in ways that were unprecedented in the past. Parents and politicians are increasingly compelled to talk openly about sex and sexual rights in the home and in public domains.
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    Policy Approaches to Working with Men to Improve Men's Health and Achieve Gender Equality

    BRIDGE, 2007
    What policies are in place to address issues such as men and violence, men and sexual and reproductive health services, male circumcision, and men and substance use? What are the operational barriers to policy implementation? What new policies are needed and which departments should be involved in setting and implementing policy?
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    UNIFEM Afganistan Fact Sheet 2007

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007
    What is women's situation in Afghanistan in 2007? This factsheet presents key statistics in a number of key areas, including political participation, labour force participation, health, education, marriage and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Afghanistan has the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world, and a low female life expectancy of just 44 years.
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    Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.

    Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007
    Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.
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    Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007

    2007
    Girls are getting a raw deal. They face double discrimination on account of their gender and their age, and in many societies they remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder. 'Because I am a Girl: The State of the World's Girls 2007' is the first in a series of annual reports published by Plan examining the rights of girls throughout their childhood, adolescence and as young women.

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