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    Website: Parched Homes: A multimedia exploration of Domestic Violence against women in China

    2013
    Combatting domestic violence is at the heart of the struggle to equalise gender rights. Despite the fact that Taiwan and Hong Kong have enacted laws preventing spousal violence, mainland China has no national legislation to protect victims of abuse and bring perpetrators to justice. Family issues or intimate relations are regarded as private issues.
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    Good practice brief on male involvement in GBV prevention and response in conflict, post-conflict and humanitarian crisis settings in sub-saharan Africa

    Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2013
    The purpose of this brief is to provide concrete methods for, and highlight successful examples of, programmes that involve men and boys in prevention and response to gender based violence (GBV) in conflict, post-conflict and humanitarian crisis settings in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    Militarism, conflict and violence

    Association for Women's Rights in Development, 2013
    The Association for Women in Development (AWID) share recent and relevant publications on the 16 Days of Activism overarching themes of militarism, conflict and violence. Publications include:
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    ‘¿Como te haces entender?’Gender and Gun Culture in Caribbean Context

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2010
    Although Latin America and the Caribbean have not seen interstate conflict for decades, the countries in the region cannot be said to be at peace given the high levels of gun violence.
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    Gun Free Kitchen Tables Activity Report

    Isha L’Isha Feminist Centre, 2011
    The Gun Free Kitchen Tables (GFKT) campaign demands enforcement of an existing Israeli law which limits security guards’ authorisation to bear arms to worksites only.
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    Our Bodies Are Still Trembling: Haitian Women’s Fight Against Rape

    Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti, 2010
    This report outlines evidence showing that the rape of women and girls dramatically increased in the aftermath of the devastating January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, especially in Internally Displace People (IDP) camps.
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    Gender-based violence in the workplace: an overview from the occupied Palestinian territory

    International Labour Organization, 2012
    This ILO policy brief presents the findings of a study by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics into gender-based violence in workplaces in the occupied Palestinian territory. 981 women working in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip were involved in the study, and 22.8 per cent said that they had experienced some sort of violence at work during the last twelve months.
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    Sexuality and the development Industry

    Pathways of Women's Empowerment RPC, 2013
    In April 2008, 70-plus activists, academics, donors and development practitioners from more than 25 countries gathered at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in Brighton to explore the complex linkages between sexuality and the development industry.
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    Review of research on collective action and engaging men to tackle gender based violence

    BRIDGE, 2012
    The aim of this review is to pull together examples of research that shows how collective forms of agency (whether in the form of social movements, coalitions or groups) have made a difference in eliciting positive social change in relation to gender-based violence; and highlights ways in which engaging men and masculinities on gender based violence issues has made a difference.
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    Empowerment: a journey not a destination

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    Pathways of Women’s Empowerment is an international research and communications programme that began in 2006. Its focus has been on understanding and influencing efforts to bring about positive change in women’s lives.

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