Siyanda Update: Sexuality and Sexual Rights, Issue No. 50, December
2006 / January 2007
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In This Issue:
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I. Celebrating the 50th Siyanda Update
II. Special Feature: New BRIDGE Cutting Edge Page: Gender and Sexuality
III. Quick Guide: Sexuality and Sexual Rights
IV. Country Focus: Sweden
V. Experts and Consultants Database: A selection of published work
from the 20 most recently registered experts
VI. Latest Additions: ICTs, LGBT human rights, Budgetary reform in
Morocco, Working with the media in education, GAD and men
VII. Contribute section: share your opinions and latest news

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I. Celebrating the 50th Siyanda Update
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Welcome to the 50th Siyanda Update! Since the first bulletin in May
2002 on Globalisation we have covered a huge range of topics,
including Budgets, Gender Based Violence, Monitoring and Evaluation
Tools, Religion and the World Trade Organisation.

You can browse through the last 4 years of Siyanda Updates at:
http://www.siyanda.org/archive.htm

Siyanda has recently reached several other milestones:
:- our Experts database now profiles over 1000 gender specialists
:- we provide summaries of over 2000 gender-focused resources in our
online database
:- the Siyanda Update is circulated to over 4000 subscribers

Thanks for your support! We welcome your feedback which we can use to
improve the website to suit your needs. Feel free to send your
comments to [log in to unmask]

The BRIDGE Team


II. Special Feature: New BRIDGE Cutting Edge Page: Gender and Sexuality
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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?

This Cutting Edge Pack hopes to inspire thinking on this question -
with an Overview Report outlining key issues on gender, sexuality and
sexual rights in the current climate, a Supporting Resources
Collection providing summaries of key texts, tools, case studies and
contacts of organisations in this field, and a Gender and Development
In Brief newsletter with three short articles on the theme.
http://www.bridge.ids.ac.uk/reports_gend_CEP.html#Sexuality


III. Quick Guide: Sexuality and Sexual Rights
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The following resources are a selection of over 40 new resources added
to the Siyanda database on Sexuality and Sexual Rights, including many
featured in the new Cutting Edge Pack on Gender and Sexuality:

- Gender and sex: a sample of definitions, Esplen, E. and Jolly, S.,
December 2006
This short paper presents a range of definitions of gender and sex,
which reveal the diversity of the individual and institutional
understandings that exist of these much-debated terms.
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/bridge_sexuality_definitions.htm

- Sexuality Matters, Cornwall, A. and Jolly, S., October 2006
Why is sexuality a development concern? How can development move
beyond the current limited and negative approaches and embrace the
significance of sexuality for development in more affirmative ways?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/cornwall_jolly_sexualitymatters.htm

- Walking the Talk: Inner Spaces Outer Faces – a Gender and Sexuality
Initiative, CARE and the International Center for Research on Women
(ICRW), January 2006
This paper describes 'The Inner Spaces, Outer Faces Initiative' which
was initiated in India and Vietnam by CARE and the International
Centre for Research on Women to provide practitioners with space to
explore their own values, attitudes, experiences and beliefs about
gender and sexuality.
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/care_icrw_walkingthetalk.htm

- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues in Development: a
Study of Swedish Policy and Administration of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgender Issues in International Development Cooperation,
Samelius, L. and Wagberg, E., November 2005
This report is based on a study of Swedish policy and administration
of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) issues in
international development cooperation
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/samelius_wagberg_sexualorientation.htm

- Rights of the Body and Perversions of War: Sexual Rights and Wrongs
Ten Years Past Beijing, Petchesky, R., June 2005
This paper argues that we need to move beyond approaches which cast
women as victims and men as invulnerable, and forge alliances between
women's movements and others mobilising for sexual and bodily rights.
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/petchesky_rightsofthebody.htm

- Institutional Memoir of the 2005 Institute for Trans and Intersex
Activist Training, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights
Commission (IGLHRC), January 2005
This memoir describes the first ever Institute for Trans and Intersex
Activist Training to be held in South America.
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/iglhrc_institutional_memoir.htm

- Sex Work Toolkit, Evans, C., January 2004
The toolkit is a collection of more than 130 easily-accessible
documents, manuals, reports, and research studies, which are intended
for use by people working with female, male and transgender sex
workers.
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/evans_sexwork_toolkit.htm

- A Positive Women's Survival Kit, ICW, January 1999
A Positive Woman's Survival Kit was produced by and for women living
with HIV/AIDS and addresses topics such as: dealing with a positive
diagnosis; disclosure; childbirth and breastfeeding; sex and
sexuality; grief and loss. Additional fact sheets provide further
information.
http://www.siyanda.org/Static/icw_survival_kit.htm


You can find additional resources on Sexuality and Sexual Rights
through the Simple Search function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/

Gender Equality and Measurements of Change will be the next Quick
Guide theme, in February 2007. Users are invited to suggest resources
on this topic for possible inclusion in the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/addinfo/

Please also visit the archive section to view past Quick Guide themes:
http://www.siyanda.org/quick_guide.htm


IV. Country Focus: Sweden
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- Sexual Politics and Social Policy: the Swedish Experience Reviewed,
Subrahmanian, R., forthcoming
Why does Sweden promote an approach to sex work which is at odds with
evolving approaches in the South?
http://www.siyanda.org/static/subrahmanian_sexual_politics.htm

- The Swedish Law that Prohibits the Purchase of Sexual Services: Best
Practices for Prevention of Prostitution and Trafficking in Human
Beings, Ekberg, G., October 2004
In Sweden buying sex is punishable by imprisonment or a fine
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ekberg_sexual_services.htm

- Sexual Harassment and Gender-related Harassment in Working Life.
Review of Current Knowledge, Equal Opportunity Ombudsman (Jämo),
September 2006
This is a review of the current status of sexual harassment and
gender-related harassment in working life in Sweden.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/jamo_sexual_harrassment.htm

- Sixth and Seventh CEDAW Periodic Report: Sweden, Ministry of
Industry, Employment and Communications, May 2006
This report gives an account of the situation in Sweden with regard to
gender equality, and describes what measures the government has taken.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/swedish_gov_cedaw6&7.htm

- Moving Ahead: Gender budgeting in Sweden, Ministry of Industry,
Employment and Communications, Sweden, May 2006
This interim report investigates the impact of the five-year Plan for
Gender Mainstreaming in government offices launched by the Swedish
government.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/swedish_gov_budgeting.htm

- Initial Study of Lifestyles, Consumption Patterns: Do Women Leave a
Smaller Ecological Footprint Than Men?, Ministry of Sustainable
Development, Sweden, April 2006
This study explores the linkages between gender, consumption and
sustainable lifestyles in the Swedish context
http://www.siyanda.org/static/sustainability_ministry_footprint.htm

- Patriarchal Violence – an Attack on Human Security: a Broad Survey
of Measures to Combat Patriarchal Violence and Oppression,
Particularly Acts Committed in the Name of Honour Directed at Women,
Homosexuals, Bisexuals and Transgender Persons, Gerd Johnsson-Latham,
January 2006
A study of Swedish and international measures to combat patriarchal violence.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/johnsson_latham_violence.htm


Access more gender resources on Sweden:
http://www.siyanda.org/search/qlinx-countryfocus.cfm?code=Sweden,
and network with experts and practitioners:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/results.cfm?CouOfExp=Sweden


V. Resources from Experts and Consultants Database: A selection of
published work from the 20 most recently registered experts
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The Experts and Consultants Database contains names, contact details
and areas of expertise of people working on gender specific issues
worldwide, and includes some of their publications. The following have
been selected from the 20 most recently registered experts:

- Social and Political Implications of Globalization for Women in
Developing Countries: The Bangladesh Context, Haque, R., 2006
- Women in Power: Critical Mass to Critical Action, Joseph, V.,
July-September 2006
- Gender: violence and equality, participation and exclusion
(Spanish), Lovesio, B, 2005
- The Importance of Gender in Energy Decision Making: The Case of
Rural Botswana. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, Wright, N., 2003
- Men's Participation in Family Planning and Protection of
Reproductive Health. Sociological research (Russian & English),
Alymkulova, A., 2003


For further details on these publications, copy and paste or type the
author's last name into either the Name or Search Words field on the
Experts and Consultants search page: http://www.siyanda.org/exps/

- View the latest consultants:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/latest.cfm
- Join the list:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/addexp.cfm
- Search the database:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/
- Edit your existing profile:
http://www.siyanda.org/exps/editlogin.cfm (you need a user name and password)

The Siyanda Gender Experts and Consultants Database, with over 1000
profiles, can be used as a networking tool for connecting
practitioners, researchers, activists, students and experts with
like-minded colleagues, persons working on similar themes, or in the
same geographical location. It is also an excellent resource for those
seeking experts for gender-focussed consultancies.


VI. Latest additions
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- Promoting Gender Equality? Some Development-related Uses of ICTs by
Women, Gurumurthy, A., November 2006
- Online Library Documenting LGBT Human Rights Abuses Worldwide, The
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC),
November 2006
- Budget Reform Guide: The New Results-Oriented Budget Approach with a
Gender Perspective (in French and Arabic), Morocco, January 2005
- Working with the Media on Gender and Education: A Guide for Training
and Planning, Oxfam, January 2006
- Engendered Measurement of Extension Effort in Nyamazura Area of
Mutare District - Implications for Extension and Research Policy for
Smallholder Support, Madondo, B., January 2006
- Men, Gender and Development, Flood, M., March 2004


You can locate more Latest Additions here:
http://www.siyanda.org/newadditions.htm, or through the Simple Search
function: http://www.siyanda.org/search/ (copy and paste the title
without characters such as ":" ";" and "-" or copy and paste the
author's last name into the Search box).


VII. Contribute section
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and grants in the following forums:

Funding Sources
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Adrian Bannister
Information & Networking Officer
BRIDGE - Gender and Development
The Institute of Development Studies, Sussex
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