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  Women and men hand in hand against violence: strategies and approaches of working with men and boys for ending violence against women

  Make Trade Fair Campaign, Oxfam International, 2010

  Violence against women1 (VAW) hinders the realization of a wide range of development goals, from the elimination of poverty to the fulfillment of human rights. In Arab countries, many forms of VAW exist and are perpetuated by the deep-rooted sociocultural factors. Ending VAW requires the collaboration of all community members.
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  Traditional leaders wield the power, and they are almost all men: the importance of involving traditional leaders in gender transformation

  Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2010

  How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tackle social issues such as HIV, gender equality and violence in rural African communities? A number of them, including Sonke Gender Justice network, the Ubuntu Institute, CARE International and Zambian Women for Change (WFC) are working with traditional leaders as a gateway to reach the people in communities they are targeting.
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  Gender and Rape Survivors' Access to Legal Justice in South Africa

  Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, 2010

  How does gender inequality within the South African justice system affect rape survivors’ access to legal justice? Is the law able to protect women and bring perpetrators to justice? Rape is widespread in South Africa where gender inequality is rife.
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  Masculinity and Civil Wars in Africa – New Approaches to Overcoming Sexual Violence in War

  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2009

  An analysis of the different roles that men and women can play as a conflict unfolds offers new perspectives to help understand wars and restore peace in post-war societies. Sustainable peace building requires, among other things, addressing the behaviour and thinking of violent actors and preventing re-establishment of the old discordant social order.
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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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  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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  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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