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  Learning from women to create gender inclusive cities: baseline findings from the Gender Inclusive Cities programme

  Women in Cities International, 2012

  The goal of the Gender Inclusive Cities programme is to is to enhance women’s inclusion and “right to the city”. The purpose of this report is to share the data collected in the first year of the programme on the state of women’s safety in each participating city (Rosario, Argentina; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Petrozavodsk, Russia; and Delhi, India).
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  Partners for Prevention: Working to Prevent Violence against Women

  Partners for Prevention: Working to Prevent Violence against Women, is an interagency initiative of UNDP, UNFPA, UN Women and UNV in Asia and the Pacific.
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  Centre for Equity and Inclusion (CEQUIN)

  The Centre for Equity and Inclusion (CEQUIN) is a Non Profit Organization working in India towards the empowerment of marginalized and excluded sections of the population, with a special focus on wome
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  Ending the indiffference: sexual violence during the 1993- 2003 armed conflict in DR Congo

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2011

  While sexual violence in the DRC is not a new phenomenon - its roots can be found in the long entrenched treatment of women as inferiors - It reached an unparalleled level between 1996 and 1998, during the first and second wars of the DRC. The scale of sexual violence during these conflicts calls for multiple responses.
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  Understanding masculinities: a formative research on masculinities and gender based violence in a peri-urban area in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

  Partners for Prevention: Working to Prevent Violence against Women, 2012

  This research report attempts to provide some insight into young boys and men's lives and their experiences of masculinities and gender norms within the context of Pakistan. It is Rozan's belief that initiatives aimed at gender transformation must address and understand how these roles and norms are experienced by men and how they impact their lives and relationships.
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  Deoum troung pram hath in modern Cambodia: a qualitative exploration of gender norms, masculinity and domestic violence

  Gender and Development for Cambodia, 2010

  Commissioned by Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC) this qualitative study examines the links between masculinity, gender, and domestic violence. It is based on a review of existing information from government and non-government bodies, as well as regional and international sources.1 The field study was conducted in two rural provinces of Cambodia and in the capital, Phnom Penh.
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  Brief on the global campaign to engage men as caregiving partners to promote better maternal health and sexual and reproductive health, reduce gender-based violence and promote child development and economic empowerment for women

  Promundo, 2012

  Of all the topics discussed in engaging men in gender equality, the issue of men and caregiving, including men’s involvement in maternal health, remains conspicuously absent and underexplored.
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  Masculinity and its role in gender-based violence in public spaces

  Centre for Equity and Inclusion, 2012

  This paper reflects the position that in order to comprehend the nature of gender inequalities we must closely interrogate the relationship between gender identities in their various social, cultural, economic and political contexts...
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  This is what we demand. Justice! Impunity for sexual violence against women in Colombia's armed conflict

  Amnesty International, 2011

  Women and girls have been subjected to widespread and systematic sexual violence by all the parties to the long-running Colombian armed conflict – paramilitaries, members of thesecurity forces and guerrilla combatants.
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  The sexual harassment of industrial workers: Strategies for Intervention in the workplace and beyond

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2003

  Existing studies of industrial workers are silent on the topic of sexual harassment. At one level, this silence can be understood in relation to workers’ priorities, which revolve understandably around ‘bread and butter’ issues.The present study seeks to break the silence and understand the impact of sexual harassment on women employed in industrial wage work.

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