This monograph is an attempt to examine the representation of sex workers and presentation of issues related to sex work and sex workers in the English print media through a micro-study of 1059 …
CREA is a feminist human rights organisation based in New Delhi, India. Together with partners from a diverse range of human rights movements and networks, CREA works to advance the rights of women…
The most current, comprehensive, and applied book available for the Human Sexuality course, Our Sexuality, Sixth Edition, continues to provide instructors and students with a sensitive, thorough ov…
“Inciting people to hang homosexuals is an attack on the right to dignity of those thus threatened: the call to hang gays in dozens tends to tremendously threaten their right to human dignity.”
UHAI EASHRI—the East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative, or simply UHAI. We believe in African activist voice in resourcing the struggle for equality, justice and dignity for Africa’s …
This book explores the social context of sex work in the city of Addis Ababa. It focuses on the social ties between sex workers and other categories of people: their family members, colleagues and …
This moving but unemotional account of the rapidly-expanding international traffic in women reveals it as a global issue. Using original, carefully-documented field studies from Thailand, it explor…
Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights is a global women’s fund that protects, strengthens and sustains women and transgender human rights defenders at critical moments. We intervene quick…
The Sisonke Manual is intended to provide a resource for Sisonke Team Leaders as well as Sisonke members. It contains information on the sex work industry and the rights of sex workers, advice on h…
Sexual activities and identities that go against the grain of mainstream heterosexuality and expected gender behaviour – most visibly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) –…
In 1998, the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre, in collaboration with eight implementing partners, Action Aid Ghana, Centre for Development of People (CEDEP), General Agricultura…
The brutal nature of prepubescent sexual abuse in South Africa is addressed in this exploration of the sociocultural and socioeconomic factors that contribute to sexually aggressive behavior in Sou…
Child sexual abuse is attracting much public concern and attention in many parts of the world. In recent years, it has taken on a novel form involving abusers masquerading as tourists and travellin…
This issue of Quality/Calidad/Qualité highlights the experience of Scenarios USA,3 an innovative nonprofit program that has integrated a gender and rights perspective -- and a critical thinking ap…
There is virtually no record of work on sexuality and rights in South and Southeast Asia, and even less to show how theory can link to practice. This volume fills the gap by demonstrating how the i…
While sexual violence is an area that is well mapped by feminist scholarship, this volume will focus on transgressive and/or marginalized sexualities. It will bring together writings on India that …
Legal and customary arrangements and practices govern women’s rights to resources, such as land and housing. This book highlights women’s unequal position in formal and customary laws and pract…
In the 2016 Barometer, the Alliance reviews the 23 empirical indicators that have been used to measure progress in achieving gender equality in the region through the SADC Gender and Development In…