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    Sex Workers Struggles in Bangladesh: Learnings for the Women's Movement

    BRIDGE, 2005
    This paper describes the involvement of Naripokkho, a Bangladesh non-governmental organisation (NGO), in a national campaign to support the rights of sex workers. Naripokkho supported sex workers' efforts to defend themselves against illegal government eviction orders from brothels in Bangladesh.
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    Right to Sexual Autonomy: A Human Right? An Enquiry in the Context of Criminalization of CIATON in India

    BRIDGE, 2005
    Should the Right to Sexual Autonomy (RSA) be considered a human right? In India, section 377 of the penal code criminalises "carnal intercourse against the order of nature" (CIATON), effectively forbidding sexual activity outside of heterosexual relationships.
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    Not So Strange Bedfellows: Sexual Rights and International Development

    Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
    Is sexuality less important than poverty? This article, based on a session facilitated by BRIDGE at the 2005 Association of Women's Rights in Development (AWID) conference, explores the connections between development and sexuality. The speakers argue that sexuality is itself a survival issue.
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    Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

    Eldis, 2006
    Development agencies have long addressed issues of sexuality and reproduction. However traditionally they have dealt with them in largely negative ways. Whether through population programmes or the use of scare tactics in HIV prevention work, sexuality has been regarded as a problem that needs to be controlled rather than as a positive force that can be part of the solution.
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    The pleasure project: global mapping of pleasure

    The Pleasure Project, 2004
    How can a focus on pleasure help promote safer sex? The Pleasure Project mapped initiatives taken around the world which use pleasure as a primary motivation for promoting sexual health.
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    Lessons from gender-focused international aid in post-conflict Afghanistan…learned?

    Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005
    The empowerment and liberation of Afghan women has been a key priority of the reconstruction process in Afghanistan since 2001. Yet Afghans have expressed increasing disappointment with the aid community, particularly in relation to women's issues.
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    BRIDGE Report 68: Twenty Key Gender Websites in Chinese

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    What are the key gender websites in Chinese? This paper provides an initial selection of twenty sites, made by Beijing gender activist and journalist Feng Yuan. These include official, academic and activist sites from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong and the Chinese diaspora.
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    Rural households and resources: a pocket guide for extension workers

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004
    This guide aims to assist extension and other community-based workers to apply a gender-responsive and participatory approach in their work with rural women and men. It should also be useful for development workers wanting to use the household as an entry-point to think about gender, livelihoods and resources in communities and within households.
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    Annotated bibliography: sexuality and human rights

    International Women's Health Coalition, 2002
    This bibliography provides summaries of 28 key materials on sexuality and human rights, and a list of further references. The summarised material provides an overview of the key issues in current work on sexual rights/sexuality and human rights.
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    Rapid situation analysis of men who have sex with men in the Maghreb and Lebanon

    International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2005
    This report, from the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, examines the needs of men who have sex with men (MSM) in Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon. The analysis aimed to gain a better understanding of the sexual health needs of MSM in the region; and of their social, emotional, community and economic needs to help develop focused HIV prevention and support programmes in a Muslim context.

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