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  Sexual Health, Rights and the MDGs: International Perspectives

  2006

  he Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) address issues of gender equality and empowerment (MDG3), maternal mortality (MDG5), and HIV/AIDS (MDG 6) but do not refer to sexual health. To address this gap, the 17th Congress of the World Association of Sexual Health (Montreal 2005) identified eight goals for achieving sexual health.
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  Women's Rights in Liberia

  2003

  Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Liberia is manifested in a variety of forms of physical and mental abuse. It has serious negative impacts on economic and social development, violates international human rights legislation and represents a fundamental expression of the subordination of women.
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  Frameworks for Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict, Recovery and Reconstruction

  2006

  How does the international community respond to conflicts and crises? Responses are mainly directed to emergency relief and survival needs through the Combined Appeals Processes (CAPS) in which agencies collect baskets of proposals and submit them collectively, and through the Multi-donor Trust Funds.
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  Our Bodies, Their Battleground: Gender Based Violence in Conflict Zones

  2004

  An estimated half a million women were raped during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and 50 percent of all women in Sierra Leone were subjected to sexual violence, including rape, torture and sexual slavery during the conflict. In Liberia, an estimated 40 percent of all girls and women have fallen victim to abuse.
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  Child Soldiers: What About the Girls?

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2001

  From 1990 to 2000 girls were active in armed conflicts in at least 32 countries. Although young girls take on significant duties in conflicts, they have received scant attention.
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  Transforming our Initiatives for Gender Equality by Addressing and Involving Men and Boys: a Framework for Analysis and Action

  2004

  Leaving out boys and men from gender and development work is a recipe for failure. But how can we effectively involve men in practice? This chapter discusses a framework for addressing and involving men in gender equality initiatives, drawing on examples from the White Ribbon Campaign, a campaign that aims to engage men and boys in the struggle to end men's violence against women.
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  Working with Men and Boys to Promote Gender Equality and to End Violence Against Boys and Girls

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Interventions that treat men as the villains and women as the victims have not taken us far. Not all masculinities (or ways of being a man) are harmful to men, women and children.
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  Men, Violence and Social Crisis?, Training in Popular Education and Masculinities second workshop, 11th and 12th May 1995, Managua

  CANTERA, 1995

  The workshop on 'Men, Violence and Social Crisis' is part of a course on masculinities held by CANTERA, a Nicaraguan non-governmental organisation working to end gender-based violence through popular education workshops (see Networking and Contact Details section).
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  Ending Gender-Based Violence: A Call for Global Action to Involve Men

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2004

  When men are confronted with the problem of violence against women they often dismiss it with: ?Don't look at me! I don't do that kind of thing!? Yet men's violence is a worldwide problem. Despite this, there are men in many parts of the world who are themselves seeking ways to challenge stereotypical models of masculinity and are seeking to engage other men in reducing gender-based violence.
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  Family Violence Prevention Fund's online toolkit for Working with Men and Boys to End Gender-Based Violence

  Family Violence Prevention Fund, 2003

  In November 2003, the anti-violence NGO in the United States - the Family Violence Prevention Fund - launched an online toolkit for working with men and boys to end gender-based violence. It provides readings, case studies, handouts, exercises, and other resources in the form of a 10-lesson workplan.

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