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  What Women Do in War Time: Gender and Conflict in Africa

  Zed Books Limited, 1998

  What is the legacy of armed conflict on the roles and experiences of women in Africa? This collection of reports, testimonies and analyses portrays the diverse experiences of women all over Africa who have lived through civil wars, apartheid, genocide and gendered political violence such as rape.
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  The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  How do social relations change as a result of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction? This collection of essays links the experiences of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H), with that of the Netherlands, a country that deployed a large peacekeeping force in the war-stricken area.
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  Development Myths Around Sex and Sexualities in the South

  BRIDGE, 2003

  In development representations of the South, sexuality is either ignored, or discussed only in relation to disease and violence, or reproductive decision making based on material interests.
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  Key Issues on Gender and HIV/AIDS in China

  BRIDGE, 2003

  Inequality, including gender inequality has fuelled the HIV/AIDS epidemic globally. The UNIFEM publication 'Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic' identifies how gender discrimination and inequality have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS, and how meeting CEDAW commitments to end gender inequality can help turn the HIV/AIDS tide.
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  Women's Health and HIV: Experiences from a Sex Workers' Project in Calcutta

  Oxfam, 2000

  The current rate of HIV/AIDS infection in India is very high. For most Indian women it is almost impossible to contemplate assertiveness in a sexual relationship with a man and negotiate safer sex. However there is a movement of sex workers in Sonagachi who are successfully negotiating safer sex relationships with clients as well as better treatment from society including from the police.
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  Promoting the Participation of Men in Community-based HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care in Cambodia

  2002

  In some countries such as Cambodia, the main form of HIV transmission is heterosexual sex. Men have more sex partners than women, and often engage in commercial sex. There is therefore a need for greater emphasis on working with men towards greater awareness of HIV prevention and care, particularly since projects and programmes around sexual health have usually targeted women.
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  Combating trafficking [of women] in South-East Asia: a review of policy and programme responses

  International Organization for Migration, 2001

  It has been estimated that 200-225,000 women and children from Southeast Asia are trafficked annually. NGOs, inter-governmental organisations, government ministries, national and international bodies and human rights organisations and lobby networks have developed initiatives to combat the problem.
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  Prostitution in Five Countries: Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  Feminism & Psychology, 1998

  Is prostitution just a job or is it a violation of human rights' From the authors' perspective, prostitution is an act of violence against women. They interviewed four hundred and seventy five people (including women, men and the transgendered) currently and recently prostituted in five countries (South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA, and Zambia) and found that violence was a common experience.
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  Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan

  2000

  Many thousands of women in Thailand accept offers to work in Japan each year deceived into thinking that they will be able provide a better livelihood for themselves and their families. Nearly all find themselves lumbered with excessive debts and forced to work under brutal conditions without compensation. Under International law, governments have an obligation to combat such abuses.

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