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    Outsiders 1978-2000: a Personal History

    Leydig Trust, 2000
    People with disabilities have a right to love and sex as much as anyone else. This is the message of "Outsiders", a UK based organisation for people who feel isolated because of physical disabilities or social disabilities such as shyness, phobias or mental illness. Outsiders helps them gain confidence, make new friends and find partners. People of all sexual orientations are welcome.
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    Beyond Victims and Villains: Addressing Sexual Violence in the Education Sector

    Panos Institute, London, 2003
    Gender-based violence has physical, sexual, and psychological consequences, and is frequently the cause of ill health and even death among women aged 15 to 44. Younger women appear to be particularly at risk. Gender violence worldwide often remains unaddressed. It is rarely talked about within schools and universities, which are often perceived to be the safest places.
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    Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies

    Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 2000
    Controlling the sexuality of women continues to be one of the most powerful tools of patriarchy in most societies. The essays in this volume show that the sexual oppression of Muslim women is not the result of an Islamic vision of sexuality, but a combination of political, social and economic inequalities practiced through the ages.
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    BRIDGE Report 33: Gender, Emergencies and Humanitarian Assistance

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 1995
    How can emergency relief and humanitarian assistance be more gender-sensitive? This report argues that emergency and humanitarian assistance tends to be gender-blind, responding to women's needs solely as victims and mothers, without accounting for changes in gender relations that arise out of crises.
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    Adolescent girls literacy initiative for reproductive health (A GIFT for RH)

    Centre for Development and Population Activities, 2003
    The goal of this project was to assist illiterate and out-of-school adolescent girls in making informed decisions regarding their reproductive health and rights. The Aamaa Milan Kendra (AMK or Mothers' Club), an NGO set up in 1999 in Nepal, has been supporting activities that help adolescent girls challenge gender inequity and expand their life options.
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    Sexuality - a Super Force: Young People, Sexuality and Rights in the era of HIV/AIDS

    Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2002
    "Sex is Good - Sex is Joy - Sex is Fun - Sex is Love - Sex is Power - Protected Sex is Life!" This is the message of this booklet, which argues that sexuality is natural and needed for procreation, and sexual drive is important for intimacy and pleasure. Many young people have sex during their teens, whether their parents know this or not.
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    Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management: A Practical Journey to Sustainability

    2003
    This guide serves as a comprehensive and practical tool to help project managers, gender specialists and researchers to mainstream gender into water management. Mainstreaming gender in this area is critical to reaching the Millenium Development Goals.
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    Women Facing War: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women

    International Committee of the Red Cross, 2001
    The ICRC endeavours to raise awareness of the distinct ways in which women are negatively affected by war and conflict, and how their conditions might be improved through better implementation of existing international law, as well as greater involvement of women in all aspects of conflict resolution. As part of this initiative, the organisation published this report in 2001.
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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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    Luchando por la Justicia: las Mujeres Peruanas en la B£squeda de Los desaparecidos [Fighting forJustice: Peruvian Women in the Search for the Disappeared]

    BRIDGE, 2003
    How has a gender analysis been used in areas of post-conflict? In Peru, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) was set up following two decades of political violence spanning the period from 1980 to 2000.

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