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EMERGE Practice Brief: Lessons in good practice from work with men and boys for gender equality
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2015DocumentIntroduction: making change happen – citizen action and national policy reform
Zed Books, 2010How has citizenDocumentLatin American and Caribbean Report: LACWHN looks at six Latin America and Caribbean countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic – Cairo +20, 2012
2013In 1993 the Latin American and Caribbean Women’s Health Network (LACWHN) convened the first meeting on 'Women and Population Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean', attended by 70 women from 18 countries, setting the tone for the feminist debate in the region, and initiating the full incorporation of their membership into the process leading up to the InternationalDocumentLos derechos de las mujeres en clave feminista: Experiencias del Cladem
Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru, 2009In 2009, the Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defence of Women's Rights) (CLADEM) celebrated 20 years of fighting for women’s rights in Latin America and the Caribbean.DocumentSexPolitics: reports from the front lines
Sexuality Policy Watch, 2008How 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.DocumentAdvocating for Abortion Access: Eleven Country Studies
Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2001What factors influence a country's legal position on abortion? This publication isDocumentDisabled Women and Independent Life in Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Russia, South Africa and Uganda
Disability World, 2000Disabled women are discriminated against because they are women and also because they are disabled. Disabled women have played a very important part in the disabled people's movement since its inception. And yet, their contribution is often invisibilised or not properly acknowledged, in some occasions it is even not welcome.DocumentNew forms of citizenship: democracy, family, and community in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oxfam, 2003In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, many families live in illegal land occupations (favelas), housing projects and working-class suburbs. In the daily lives of most of these families, little change has been experienced under democracy as opposed to dictatorship. For some, life is more defined by violence related to drug-trafficking.DocumentSexual Rights in Brazil: Social Movement and Legal Literacy
BRIDGE, 2005The Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988 made freedom of sexual orientation a fundamental right. Sexual diversity is thus constitutionally secured in Brazil. Since the 1990s, Brazilian gay and lesbian movements have used this rationale to fight for a specific law to regulate same-sex marriage. Yet this paper argues that the ?gay marriage institution?DocumentGender and Citizenship: Supporting Resources Collection
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2004Citizenship is an abstract concept and therefore great care must be taken in explaining what it means in practice and what can effectively be done in the context of development interventions and policy. Development projects which enhance the ability of marginalised groups to access and influence decision-making bodies are implicitly if not explicitly working with concepts of citizenship.Pages