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    Sex for pleasure, Rights to Participation, and Alternatives to AIDS: Placing Sexual Minorities and/or Dissidents in Development

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004
    The term sexual minorities and/or dissidents is used here to describe lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people. These people have usually only been openly included or allowed to participate in the development industry in relation to HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS is an important entry point, but brings with it negative associations of sickness and stigma.
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    Cutting edge pack: gender and migration

    BRIDGE, 2005
    In 2000, 1 in every 35 people was an international migrant and half of these were women. The total numbers of people moving internally and the proportions of women among them are even higher. People's experiences of gender are central to the patterns, causes and impacts of migration. Gender roles, relations and inequalities affect who migrates, how, why, and where they end up.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 16: Gender and Migration

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    Over the past four decades total numbers of international migrants have more than doubled but the percentage of the world population migrating has remained fairly constant. There are now 175 million international migrants worldwide or approximately 3.5 per cent of the global population -about half of whom are women.
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    Gender and Migration: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005
    This collection is made up of summaries of overviews, case studies, tools and guidelines and other materials relating to gender and migration. Details of how to obtain copies or download the full texts are provided with each summary.
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    Transmigration of Transexual Peruvians to Italy and Changing Perceptions in Peru about Transgender

    Institute for Peruvian Studies / Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2005
    Migration has empowered transgendered Peruvians. This article is based on interviews with Peruvian "travestis" migrating between Peru and Italy. Before international migration possibilities opened up in the 1990s they were marginalised and excluded in their homeland. Now, after a long period of work in prostitution in Milan, attitudes back home have changed.
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    Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics

    Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
    The April 2005 conference - 'Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics' - forms an interesting case study of transnational organising around gender and sexuality, hosted by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
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    Refugee and Internally Displaced Women; Gender-Based Asylum Claims

    2005
    Refugee and internally displaced women are vulnerable to abuse by governments, insurgent groups, and other refugees as they flee conflict, persecution, or natural catastrophe in their countries or locations of origin. They are vulnerable to violence both as a result of the surrounding problem and because of their dependence on outsiders for relief provisions.
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    Migration, Sexuality, and the Spread of HIV/AIDS in Rural South Africa

    Southern African Migration Project, 2004
    South Africa is experiencing one of the fastest-growing HIV epidemics in the world. Migration is one of the many social factors contributing to the epidemic. The role of migration has conventionally been understood as men migrating, becoming infected through sexual relations while away from home, and infecting their wives or regular partners when they return.
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    Gender Country Profile: Haiti

    Women, War and Peace, 2005
    What has been the impact of conflict on Haitian women? What is their human rights and economic rights situation? This country profile offers facts and figures that give an overview of women's situation in Haiti.
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    The Invisible Ones: Human Rights of Romani Women in Vojvodina

    BRIDGE, 1990
    The Romani community in Serbia and Montenegro was recognized as a national minority in 2002. This relatively improved the community's legal status and helped in the creation of many Romani non-governmental organizations, TV and radio programs (e.g. a magazine called "Romology" and a newsletter entitled "Them").

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