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 bridge@ids.ac.uk.
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 900 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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View and/or advertise new funding sources, scholarships, fellowships and grants
in the following forums:
Funding Sources
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120060307100834
Scholarships
http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120060307094130
Participate in our Discussion Forum on Sexuality by clicking on http://www.siyanda.org/forum/xviewthread.cfm?Thread=120031010045342
For topics such as gender training, announcements and newsletters please visit:
http://www.siyanda.org/participate.htm
(All summaries in the update are written or adapted by BRIDGE Team members.
This update was edited by Adrian Bannister)
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