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    Does Sex Make a Difference: An Equalities Pack for Young People on International Women's Day

    2003
    ?Get a Life!? is one message of this pack which looks at why women are underrepresented in politics in the UK. Young people, particularly girls, are encouraged to get involved in politics and representative bodies in school, community and government. Positive stories are presented of women's and young people's participation in politics.
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    Cause for Great Concern: The Status of Reproductive Health in Peru

    Center for Health and Gender Equity, 2003
    Despite important advances in the last 40 years, are women's sexual and reproductive health rights being threatened? This newsletter, written by the Director of the San Mart¡n de Porres University Medical Clinic in Lima, Peru, highlights the ways women's sexual and reproductive rights are being undermined by the Peruvian government of Alejandro Toledo, who came to power in 2001.
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    Locked doors: the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in China

    Human Rights Watch, 2003
    China faces what could be the largest HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. At least 1.5 million men, women and children are affected, and probably many more. During the 1990s local authorities in at least 7 provinces were complicit in transmission of HIV to hundreds of thousands or even millions of villagers through an unsafe but highly profitable blood collection industry.
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    Sexuality - a Super Force: Young People, Sexuality and Rights in the era of HIV/AIDS

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002
    "Sex is Good - Sex is Joy - Sex is Fun - Sex is Love - Sex is Power - Protected Sex is Life!" This is the message of this booklet, which argues that sexuality is natural and needed for procreation, and sexual drive is important for intimacy and pleasure. Many young people have sex during their teens, whether their parents know this or not.
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    Development Myths Around Sex and Sexualities in the South

    BRIDGE, 2003
    In development representations of the South, sexuality is either ignored, or discussed only in relation to disease and violence, or reproductive decision making based on material interests.
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    Gender and HIV/AIDS Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    Why, after 20 years of international responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic are infection rates still on the increase? Why are the numbers of women living with HIV increasing faster than the number of men? HIV/AIDS is not only driven by gender inequality - it makes gender inequality worse, putting women, men and children further at risk.
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    Key Issues on Gender and HIV/AIDS in China

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Inequality, including gender inequality has fuelled the HIV/AIDS epidemic globally. The UNIFEM publication 'Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic' identifies how gender discrimination and inequality have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS, and how meeting CEDAW commitments to end gender inequality can help turn the HIV/AIDS tide.

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