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    Sexuality and Rights Workshop: Meeting Summary

    2007
    This paper documents the presentations given at a Sexuality Rights Workshop in Bangladesh in January 2007. The presentations drew on a diverse range of ongoing research and projects working with urban and rural populations in Bangladesh on sexual and reproductive health and gender.
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    Room to maneuver : lessons from gender mainstreaming in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations

    Women's Refugee Commission, 2007
    The United Nations is mandated to mainstream gender issues and concerns through its agencies and operations. An essential part of this effort must be to focus on the impact of gender mainstreaming on the lives of women, girls, boys and men affected by armed conflict.
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    Psychosocial challenges and interventions for women affected by conflict

    Women for Women International, 2006
    The articles in this journal edition highlight the psychological and social difficulties encountered by conflict-affected women. The general hardship and trauma of conflict is often compounded further by gender-based violence, which takes a heavy toll on women's mental health.
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    Gender-Based Violence, Relationship Power, and Risk of HIV Infection in Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in South Africa

    Gender Advocacy Programme, South Africa, 2004
    Gender-based violence and gender inequality are increasingly cited as important determinants of women's HIV risk; yet empirical research on possible connections remains limited. This report presents findings of a cross-sectional study of 1366 at four health centres in Soweto, South Africa, who accepted routine antenatal HIV testing.
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    Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent Girls' Experiences of Gender-Based Violence at Schools

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
    To what extent do adolescent girls in South Africa experience gender-based violence in their heterosexual relationships at school? What is being done to support victims and change attitudes towards violence?
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    Expanding Abused Women's Access to Housing

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
    What housing is available to South African women who flee their homes to escape domestic violence and have to find their own accommodation? This report provides an overview of the different government-provided shelter options available to women who have to leave their homes.
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    On the Margins: Violence Against Women with Disabilities. Research Report Written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2005
    Why are South African women with disabilities more vulnerable to violence than non-disabled women and experience it differently? To what extent do service providers recognise and respond to their needs?
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    Daai Ding: Sex, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Men's Prisons

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2002
    Sex in men's prison most often happens in the context of 'prison marriages' with one man being a 'husband' and the other the 'wife'. Prisoners report that like (in their view of) heterosexual husband and wife relationships, the husband owns and controls the wife. Prison gangs identify who is a 'man' and a 'woman' and regulate prisoners' attempts to be promoted from 'woman' to 'man'.
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    Your Brother, My Wife: Sex and Gender Behind Bars

    2003
    While media reports on prison corruption have played a role in bringing sex, sexual violence and varying levels of sexual coercion more into the public arena, generally not much is understood about the dynamics of sex in men's prisons.
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    Domestic Violence in South Africa: Reflections on Strategy and Practice

    2005
    One study surveying 1306 women in three South African provinces found that 27 percent of women in the Eastern Cape, 28 percent of women in Mpumalanga and 19 percent of women in the Northern Province had been physically abused in their lifetimes by a current or ex-partner. The same study also found high prevalence of emotional and economic abuse.

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