Sexuality
BRIDGE publications
Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being. How can we make possible more joy and less misery?
Documents on Sexuality (213)
Center for Reproductive Rights, formerly known as the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, New York, Jan 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 ...
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Author:
Juan Marco Vaggione,
OpenDemocracy, Sep 2010
Latin America is seeing a rise in fundamentalist religious group mobilisation in response to progress being made by women’s rights and sexual rights movements. This article claims that women’s bodies ...
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Author:
G Gómez;A Largaespada,
Centro de Estudio de la Mujer - Honduras, Mar 2004
In Nicaragua women are excluded from exercising their rights and citizenship due to a worsening situation of violence and sexual exploitation, which includes forced maternity, unsafe abortion, adolescent pregnancies, maternal ...
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Author:
C Cáceres (ed),
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Jan 2004
In Latin America the issue of diversity has taken on increasing importance in the struggle for human rights. The idea of sexual citizenship is a vital theoretical and practical tool ...
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Author:
Sarita Ranchod;Sonja Boezak,
Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation, Oct 2007
This report asks to what degree Hivos interventions in the period 1995 – 2005 contributed to Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transsexual (LGBT) emancipation in southern Africa? The document finds that ...
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