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    Gender and Sexuality Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being.
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    Gender and Sexuality: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Why are gender and sexuality important for policymakers, practitioners and activists? Sexuality and gender can combine to make a huge difference in people's lives - between well-being and ill-being, and sometimes between life and death.
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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 18: Sexuality

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being.
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    Gender and Sexuality: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    Mobilising around sexuality is not new. Activists and practitioners have long been working on issues such as HIV/AIDS; sexual violence; abortion; sex work; and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. What is new is the integrated, affirmative approach to sexuality which is increasingly being adopted.
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    How to Guide: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Programme in Liberia

    United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2001
    How can sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) be tackled in a refugee setting? This guide advocates for a multisectoral approach which brings together a range of organisations working in the medical, legal, and security sectors, with the refugee community, to tackle SGBV in participatory 'survivor' centred ways.
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    Mairin iwanka raya: indigenous women stand against violence

    Pan African Development Information System, 2006
    In December 2003, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly requested that the UN Secretary-General conduct an in-depth study on violence against women. The International Indigenous Women's Forum (FIMI/IIWF) was concerned that the needs, rights, and perspectives of Indigenous women would not be adequately reflected in the study.
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    BRIDGE Bibliography 15: Engaging men in gender equality: positive strategies and approaches: overview and annotated bibliography

    Siyanda, 2006
    In various settings, small numbers of men and boys are changing their attitudes and behaviour towards women - supporting opportunities for women to earn an income outside the home, or speaking out against gender-based violence, for example. What makes this kind of resistance to rigid views of gender possible?
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    Rights of the Body and Perversions of War: Sexual Rights and Wrongs Ten Years Past Beijing

    2005
    Much groundbreaking work has been done by the movement against Violence against Women. At the same time, however, the emphasis on violence has produced an image of third world women as helpless victims of culture which dovetails with right wing rhetoric about preserving women's chastity. In contrast to women, sexual violence against men has been less visible.
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    Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism

    Glasshouse Press, 2005
    In India, the law reform campaigns of the women's movement over the past few decades have focused in part on sexual wrongs, including rape, domestic violence and dowry murders, sexual harassments, obscenity and trafficking. Likewise, the international women's movement has given much attention to violence against women.
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    Sexuality Matters

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006
    This Bulletin addresses a theme that mainstream development has persistently neglected: sexuality. Why is sexuality a development concern? Because sexuality matters to people, and is an important part of most people's lives. Because development policies and practices are already having a significant - and often negative - impact on sexuality.

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