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Locked doors: the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS in China
Human Rights Watch, 2003China faces what could be the largest HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. At least 1.5 million men, women and children are affected, and probably many more. During the 1990s local authorities in at least 7 provinces were complicit in transmission of HIV to hundreds of thousands or even millions of villagers through an unsafe but highly profitable blood collection industry.DocumentEgypt: Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment Based on Sexual Orientation
World Organisation Against Torture, 2001The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture stated that sexual minorities are vulnerable to torture and discrimination because they diverge from socially constructed gender expectations (2001). This is indeed the case in Egypt. In May 2001 dozens of men were rounded up at the Queen Boat discotheque in Cairo and subjected to a lengthy trial.DocumentBetween men: HIV/STI prevention for men who have sex with men
International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003Sex between men is one of the primary ways in which HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are passed on. Yet official indifference or hostility means that there are few prevention and care programmes for men who have sex with men in developing countries.DocumentInternational Feminism and the Women's Movement in Egypt, 1904-1923 A Reappraisal of Categories and Legacies
2003How have Egyptian feminists promoted women's rights? This paper looks at the Egyptian Feminist Union (EFU) in the fight for women's right to vote in Egypt in the early twentieth century. The EFU had much in common with the international women's movement then mobilising around women's right to vote.DocumentCEDAW Combined Fourth and Fifth Periodic Reports of States Parties: Egypt
United Nations, 2000This submission by the government of Egypt to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) combines the fourth and fifth periodic reports, covering the period 1994 to 1998. It highlights the important role women have played in the country's development processes.DocumentKidnapping Brides in Kyrgyzstan: Prescriptive Human Rights Measures
Human Rights Tribune, 2000Bride kidnapping has been revived as an authentic Kyrgyz tradition, resulting in the large-scale violation of women's rights in the name of preserving Kyrgyz 'culture'. This practice was outlawed during Soviet rule and is technically still illegal under the Kyrgyz's Criminal Code.DocumentGuidelines for Integrating Gender Analysis into Biodiversity Research
1998How can gender be mainstreamed into programmes concerned with the sustainable use and management of biodiversity? The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has produced guidelines on how to integrate gender analysis into biodiversity research.DocumentAbstinence-Only Education (in the USA): Fact Sheet
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Incorporated, 2001Since the 1980s Christian right-wing fundamentalist groups in the USA have been lobbying for abstinence-only-before-marriage education instead of sex education in US schools. Their efforts have met with some success.DocumentDilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk About Sexuality
Harvard University Press, 2002This book is based on interviews with teenage girls in the USA about how they experience sexual desire. All of the girls were highly aware of the dangers surrounding sex including getting a bad reputation, pregnancy, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, rape and violence. They have received these messages from parents and in school.