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    ‘I Carry the Name of my Parents’: young people’s reflections on FGM and forced marriage - results from PEER studies in London, Amsterdam and Lisbon

    Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development, 2013
    This report presents the results of three participatory ethnographic evaluation research (PEER) studies, carried out as part of the CREATE Youth-Net project, which aims to safeguard young people in three European countries (the United Kingdom, Portugal and the Netherlands) from harmful practices, in particular Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage.
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    Bringing Rights to Bear: An Advocate’s Guide to the Work of the UN Treaty Monitoring Bodies on Reproductive and Sexual Rights

    Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, 2003
    Six key human rights treaties provide the legal foundation for the international community's commitment to human rights: the Convention on Torture; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); the Convention against Racial Discrimination; the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Covenant; the Children's Rights Convention; and the Civil and Political Right
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    Frozen in Success - Gay Activists Fear Czechs are Becoming Too Content with Past Achievements

    Transitions Online, 2008
    The 1st July 2008 marked the Czech Republic's two year anniversary of the passing of the same-sex partnerships law, a landmark achievement arising after years of political struggle and one that set the country apart from its Central European neighbours. By the end of 2007, 487 same-sex couples had entered a legal union.
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    International Youth Perspectives on Youth Abortion: a Collection of Essays, Poems and Drawings

    Youth Coalition, 2007
    Many adolescent girls and young women throughout the world find themselves faced with unplanned or unwanted pregnancies, often as a result of a lack of comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health services, and/or forced sexual relations. In February 2007, the Youth Coalition began the first of five National Abortion Advocacy Workshops in Paraguay.
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    Freedom of Choice: A Youth Activist's Guide to Safe Abortion Advocacy

    Youth Coalition, 2007
    This guide aims to build young people's capacity to advocate for safe abortion care services. It is aimed at young people, people working with young people, and sexual and reproductive health and rights advocates.
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    SexPolitics: reports from the front lines

    Sexuality Policy Watch, 2008
    How and why are gender and sexuality being used in political power struggles within and across countries and institutions? This question was at the heart of a project launched by Sexuality Policy Watch in 2004 - a transnational, cross-cultural research initiative seeking to capture the dynamics of contemporary sexual politics.
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    To Stop Violence Against Women Respect for Women's Human Rights is Essential

    Amnesty International, 2007
    Violence against women and girls is a global pandemic, which often manifests itself as sexual violence in one form or another. This collection of stories, testimonies and recollections of girls and women - from Mexico, Colombia, China and Sudan - shows how women's freedoms are dependent on their sexual and reproductive rights, particularly those to safe and legal abortion.
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    BRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography

    BRIDGE, 2007
    HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.
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    Gender-Based Violence, Relationship Power, and Risk of HIV Infection in Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in South Africa

    Gender Advocacy Programme, South Africa, 2004
    Gender-based violence and gender inequality are increasingly cited as important determinants of women's HIV risk; yet empirical research on possible connections remains limited. This report presents findings of a cross-sectional study of 1366 at four health centres in Soweto, South Africa, who accepted routine antenatal HIV testing.
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    Relationships and Sex: A Guide for Women with HIV

    Terrence Higgins Trust, 2005
    Being HIV positive can often make you feel that it's just too difficult to have an intimate relationship with anyone. But you are the same person you were before you became HIV positive; your ability to form relationships need not alter because of HIV.

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