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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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