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  Institutional Memoir of the 2005 Institute for Trans and Intersex Activist Training

  International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 2005

  This memoir describes the first ever Institute for Trans and Intersex Activist Training to be held in South America. The two-week Training Institute, which was organised by the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's (IGLHRC), was held in Argentina in 2004 and was planned, coordinated and run by trainers from South America.
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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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  Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism and Sexual Diversity

  Pluto Press, 2005

  Is it possible to move beyond the male-female gender binary system?' This book begins with this question.
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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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  Stockholm Call to Action: Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights as a Development Priority

  United Nations Population Fund, 2005

  The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government of Sweden convened the high-level roundtable, ?Reducing Poverty and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Investing in Reproductive Health and Rights? on 11 and 12 April 2005 in Stockholm.
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  Millennium Development Goals and Sexual and Reproductive Health: Briefing Cards

  2005

  Universal access to sexual and reproductive health education, information, and services is key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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  Forces for Good: Changing Masculinities in the UK Armed Forces

  United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006

  Only a handful of western military institutions are less then 90 percent male. The popular belief is that men are more aggressive than women. Yet, if men were naturally militaristic, conscription would never be necessary. Research into masculinities demonstrates that masculine identities are multiple, contradictory and fluid.
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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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  Masculinity, Peace Processes, Impunity and Justice

  Women's Human Right's Net, 2004

  In spite of international human rights and humanitarian law, women of all ages continue to be disproportionately brutalised in conflicts, both by the military and by paramilitary forces. Men's human rights can also be violated in conflict: they are wounded and die during battles and are often incarcerated or forcibly recruited.
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  Of War, Siege and Lebanon: Women's Voices from the Middle East and South Asia

  Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies, 2006

  This is a collective online publication by leading women activists, academics and writers in the Middle East and South Asia. It depicts their reactions to the wars and the increasing militarism in the Middle East, and their analysis of its impact on women activists' efforts to promote gender equality, human rights and democracy.

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