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  Malawi Gender Profile

  2008

  What is the situation of women in Malawi? Despite the fact that women have the right to full and equal protection under the Malawi constitution, gender inequality persists.
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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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  Facilitating the Fulfilment of State Obligations Towards Women's Equality: Baseline Report on Violence Against Women in Bangladesh

  2002

  Since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) in 1995, the government of Bangladesh has identified violence against women as a priority issue. Despite this, all state records show an increased incidence of violence - although this may due to improvements in the recording of violence.
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  Religion, Politics and Women: The Bangladesh Scenario, Meghna Guhathakurta, 2003,

  Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2003

  Has the growing visibility of women in discussions of development in Bangladesh helped to fuel arguments that promote a male-dominated view of society?
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  The Individual and the Political: Promundo's Evolving Approaches in Engaging Young Men in Transforming Masculinities

  BRIDGE, 2007

  How can resistance to inequitable and/or violent forms of masculinity be promoted? Instituto Promundo - a Brazilian initiative against gender violence - focuses on promoting positive masculinities. This paper discusses the process which established the project, such as consultations with young men from a variety of contexts.
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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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  Senegal Gender Profile

  2002

  Although the Constitution of Senegal prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, sex, class, or language, discrimination against women is pervasive, especially in rural areas where Islamic and traditional customs of polygyny and rules of inheritance are strictly observed. Senegalese women are in general confined to traditional roles.
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  Changing Masculinities in Nicaragua: A Community Based Approach

  BRIDGE, 2007

  Since its foundation in 2000, the Association of Men against Violence (AMAV) in Nicaragua has been developing a community based approach to working with men to prevent gender-based violence.
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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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  Masculinities, Power and the Epidemic: Messages of Social Research

  BRIDGE, 2007

  What has been learnt about masculinities since the ?ethnographic moment? in masculinity research in the 1980s? We now know there is no single version of masculinity, for example. Rather, constructions of masculinity differ from one culture to another and from one historical moment to another.

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