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    Circumcision with Words: Fighting FGM in Kenya

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2001
    In 1993, due to concern about her own daughter, Annicetta Kiriga, from the village of Tharaka, just outside of Nairobi became involved in Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO), an organisation which researched and took action on FGM in Kenya.
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    Mobilising Communities to Prevent Domestic Violence: A Resource Guide for Organisations in East and Southern Africa

    Raising Voices, 2010
    The resource guide is a tool for community-based organisations working to prevent domestic violence. It aims to assist organisations in designing and implementing a sustained community mobilization project to prevent domestic violence through creative, participatory and systematic efforts.
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    Methodologies to Measure the Gender Dimensions of Crime and Violence

    Gender Unit, Latin American and the Caribbean Region, WB, 2001
    Studies show that urban communities in Latin American and the Caribbean Region have the highest rates of homicide and crimie victimization in the world, several times that of other Regions. Violence is prevenlant in both the public and the private spheres there, where data reveals that from 25 to 69 percent of women in the Americas have been abused by their partners.
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    Gambian Experiences with Stepping Stones: 1996-99

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000
    The Gambia is an Islamic country with a low HIV prevalence rate. Very few people have publicly declared themselves to be HIV positive so many people are doubtful it exists. Men are generally very suspicious of family planning (including condom use) and this is supported by some Muslim clerics who believe it to be against the Qur'an.
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    Unpublished: Feminism at Work: A Case Study of Transforming Power Relations in Everyday Life: Puntos de Encuentro

    1998
    Born into a post-revolutionary country under a right wing government, Puntos de Encuentro­Ýs mandate is to foster equal and positive relations free from violence in daily life, in both private and public spheres, between men and women, and between young people and adults.
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    Gender and Cultural Change Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
    Is gender and development a northern imposition on cultures of the south? Yes, in the sense that much of development, including gender and development, is dominated by northern agendas. On the other hand, cultures are changing and diverse, and within any culture some people will oppose and some will favour greater gender equality.
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    Women, Gender and HIV/AIDS in East and Southeast Asia Kit

    2001
    HIV/AIDS is a gender issue because men and women are vulnerable in different ways and vulnerability is influenced by the interaction of a wide range of personal and societal factors, including knowledge of and access to support services. A major factor in the spread of HIV through East and Southeast Asia is the mobility of its people.
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    Women and Culture

    Oxfam, 1995
    This journal makes the case that development is itself imbued with cultural values: 'The concept of development is laden with the cultural values of post- colonialism, of Northern countries, and of economists. Over the last 30 years, development has been synonymous with a Northern-based notion of 'modernisation' - economic progress from a 'traditional' to a 'modern' society.
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    Non-Consensual Sex in Marriage Pack

    BRIDGE, 2001
    A CHANGE pack on non-consensual sex in marriage (NCSM) presenting women's testimonies on NCSM, along with cultural support and obstacles to eradicating this form of gender based violence.
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    Cool Your Head, Man: Results from an Action-research Initiative to Engage Young Men in Preventing Gender-based Violence in Favelas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Oxfam, 2002
    How can men challenge gender violence? This was the question explored in an action research project by the Instituto PROMUNDO, a Brazilian NGO. To start with, focus group discussions were held. Each group was made up of 8-10 young men.

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