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  Shadow Report to the Fifth Periodic Report of the Government of Bangladesh

  Steps Towards Development, 2004

  Has the Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh delivered on their promises as a signatory of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)?
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  Working with Men on Gender, Sexuality, Violence and Health: Trainer's Manual

  Sahaj, Sahayog India and Tathapi, 2005

  This manual is a resource for trainers working with men and boys around issues of citizenship, rights, gender, sexuality, violence and health in India. The content is guided by a social justice and equity perspective and is 'male-centred' in its approach. There are six distinct modules: Equity and Equality, Gender, Sexuality, Health, Violence, and Facilitation Skills.
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  Men as partners: South African men respond to violence against women and HIV/AIDS

  EngenderHealth, 2002

  Men can, and often do, play a crucial role in promoting gender equity. This report by EngenderHealth discusses the shift within the field of sexual and reproductive health towards seeing men as an important part of the solution to HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence.
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  Male sexuality in the context of socio-economic change in rural and urban East Africa

  Eldis Document Store, 2005

  HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have missed the point by concentrating on women's empowerment and women's ability to negotiate safer sex. HIV/AIDS work must also consider to what extent disempowered men in East Africa are motivated to practice safer sex.
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  Working with Young Men to Promote Gender Equality: An Experience in Brazil and Latin America

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Traditional beliefs about manhood in Brazil have been shown to directly correlate with unsafe sexual practices and violence against partners. This paper describes the Program H Initiative which was developed in 1999 by Instituto Promundo in Brazil and other collaborating Latin American organisations.
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  Good Women Bad Women: Addressing Violence in Women's Lives by Examining Social Constructs of Gender and Sexuality within CARE

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Can we empower women and protect them simultaneously? Gender-equity and sexual health programmes often focus on women's vulnerability and need for protection. But this is only part of the equation - another aspect of women's sexuality concerns their sexual pleasure.
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  The Club for Women's Advancement

  BRIDGE, 2005

  Sexuality remains a sensitive issue in Vietnamese society. Between 2000 and 2003, Viet Nam Family Planning Association (VINAFPA) - a local non-governmental organisation (NGO)- implemented a project to address the issues of reproductive health rights, gender equality and domestic violence in Vietnam. Four pilot ?Clubs for Women's Advancement? were set up.
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  Women and HIV/AIDS: Select Facts

  2004

  Women are increasingly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Nearly 50 percent of the 38 million people living with HIV/AIDS are female, up from 41 percent in 1997. Young women are disproportionately at risk. In the United States girls account for 57 percent of new HIV infections among teenagers.
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  A Russian Perspective

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2001

  Gender equality is an important element in the successful transition to a market economy and democratic development. Unfortunately, in the economic and political transition in Russia women have paid a higher price than men.
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  Rethinking Domestic Violence: A Training Process for Community Activists

  Raising Voices, 2012

  The Training Process is a programme tool for strengthening the capacity of a wide range of community actors such as trainers and activists to prevent domestic violence. It is a series of training sessions that will help participants think about, discuss and take action to prevent domestic violence.

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