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  The pleasure project: global mapping of pleasure

  The Pleasure Project, 2004

  How can a focus on pleasure help promote safer sex? The Pleasure Project mapped initiatives taken around the world which use pleasure as a primary motivation for promoting sexual health.
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  Integrating Indigenous and Gender Aspects in Natural Resource Management

  2005

  How can indigenous and gender concerns be included in natural resource management projects? In most developing countries, women, particularly indigenous women, are responsible for obtaining water and fuel and for managing household consumption. As a result, they are especially concerned with the quality and sustainability of natural resources.
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  A Client-centered Approach to Reproductive Health: A Trainer's Manual

  Population Council, 2005

  How can reproductive health service providers deliver more client-centred services? This manual adopts an approach for bringing about behaviour-change in providers, making them more receptive and responsive to client needs. The approach, called SAHR, involves four interconnected steps: Salutation, Assessment, Help, and Reassurance.
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  Independent Women, The Story of Women's Activism in East Timor

  2005

  This book describes how East Timorese women activists mobilised against patriarchy within their society and claimed their right to participate in their newly independent and democratic nation.
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  Getting it right, doing it right: gender and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  How can international assistance operations address the specific needs of women and girls in a practical way when planning in post-conflict situations? Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) interventions often focus primarily on goals of disarming men rather than acknowledging there are women combatants or women supporters of armed groups.
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  Men's involvement in gender and development policy and practice: beyond rhetoric

  Oxfam, 2001

  There is growing recognition that although women still form the majority of the poor and of the socially and politically marginalized, there is a need for a more conscious application of gender analyses to relations between women and men, and to men's own experience. Recent research shows that men, as well as women are being impoverished by an unjust and unsustainable economic model.
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  Changing a harmful social convention: female genital mutilation/cutting

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2005

  Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a global concern. Not only is it practiced among communities in Africa and the Middle East, but also in immigrant communities throughout the world. Moreover, recent data reveal that it occurs on a much larger scale than previously thought. This Digest examines the social dynamics of FGM/C.
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  Chains of Fortune: Linking Women Producers with Global Markets

  Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004

  Much has been written on the impact of globalisation on poor women. It is generally agreed that the impact can be both negative and positive and varies according to context.
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  BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 17: Gender and Trade

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  Trade and trade liberalisation have very different impacts on women and men - and can result in fundamental shifts in gender roles, relationships and inequalities. What possibilities are there to influence trade negotiations in the light of these impacts? How can policy makers and practitioners promote gender equality and support women's access to the benefits of trade?
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  Rising up in response: women's rights activism in conflict

  Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, 2005

  Women's human rights activists make up the bulk of the frontline human rights and humanitarian response to armed conflict. They mobilise, individually and collectively, to address the urgent needs of conflict-affected populations, before, during and after the fighting. Yet their work is often invisible.

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