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  Statistics for Women in Turkey 2004

  Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General On The Status And The Problems Of Women, 2004

  This official report on women in Turkey draws on data ranging from 1935 to 2002 and focuses on population, education and labour force participation statistics. Section one looks at population by gender, fertility rates, illiteracy, and levels of education. Section two is devoted to women's status in the work place.
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  From Reproductive Health to Sexual Rights: Achievements and Future Challenges

  Research and Analysis Working Group, 1997

  The language of reproductive health, gender and sexuality is included in international programmes of action such as that of the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo 1994). The term ?reproductive rights? initially linked to the struggle for the right to safe, legal abortion and contraception was, in the 1990s, brought within the human rights framework.
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  Sexual Pleasure as Feminist Choice

  African Gender Institute, South Africa, 2003

  This paper condemns the many silences in the debates around African women's sexualities. It argues that African women are often fearful of considering the possibilities for sexual pleasure because of patriarchal concepts of women's sexuality as something ?bad? or "filthy?. This has led to the suppression of feminist energies and political action.
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  Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues in Development: a Study of Swedish Policy and Administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in International Development Cooperation

  2005

  Homosexual and transgender persons are often excluded from international sexual and reproductive health work. This report is based on a study of Swedish policy and administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) issues in international development cooperation. It is the first report of its kind to be conducted by a governmental donor organisation.
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  We Have Reproductive Rights

  Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 2001

  This booklet underlines the fact that women's rights related to reproductivity and the body are human rights. The text consists of information on methods of birth control, abortion and infertility, and cautions women on the need to be aware of and demand information about the potential effects of these methods on their health.
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  Spotlights on rights: reproductive rights and community action in Colombia: an exercise in social accountability

  International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2004

  This briefing describes a community-based sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) initiative carried out by the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) in Columbia, India and Malaysia. Concrete illustrations are given of project activities. For example, in Monteria, Columbia, a youth leaflet and video was produced to raise awareness of people's rights.
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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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  Terms of Contact and Touching Change: Investigating Pleasure in an HIV Epidemic

  BRIDGE, 2005

  There is a real problem in the way that Western-led discussions of sexual health have fore-grounded warnings of 'what not to do'. If pleasure is one key reason why people have sex, sexual health work must open up discussion of how pleasure can be experienced with less risk. However there are challenges in addressing pleasure in safer sex work.
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  The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: An Instrument for Advancing Reproductive and Sexual Rights

  Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2005

  In July 2003, the African Union adopted a landmark treaty known as the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa. As of May 2005, 10 out of 15 countries had ratified the agreement. The Protocol provides broad protection for women's human rights and affirms reproductive choice and autonomy as a key human right.

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