Siyanda Update: Sexuality
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Issue No. 16 November 2003
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INDEX:
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I. Database Highlights: Sexuality
II. Websites: Behind the Mask, Convencion, Network of Sex Work Projects
III. Sexuality-related Grants: Ford Foundation, Astraea Foundation, Mama Cash
IV. On-line Discussion: Sexuality
I. Database Highlights: Sexuality
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- Development Myths Around Sex and Sexualities in the South, Jolly, S., 2003
The author argues that in development, Third World sexuality is portrayed as
uniformly heterosexual, and to do with either reproduction or HIV/AIDS but never
pleasure.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/jolly_devmyths.htm
- Sexuality – a Super Force: Young People, Sexuality and Rights in the
era of HIV/AIDS, Runeborg, A., 2002
Sexuality is a policy issue due to its connections with well-being, human rights,
poverty, disease and violence, including for young people.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/runeborg_sexsuperforce.htm
- Annotated Bibliography: Sexuality and Human Rights, Fried, Susana T., 2002
This bibliography provides summaries of important resources on sexual rights/sexuality
and human rights. Key issues covered range from gender and bodily integrity
to sex worker rights.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/fried_susan.htm
- Abstinence-Only Education (in the USA): Fact Sheet, Planned Parenthood Federation
of America Inc., 2001
Increasingly, comprehensive sexuality education in USA high schools is being
replaced with programmes promoting sexual abstinence before marriage.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/ppf_abstinence.htm
- Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies, Ilkkaracan, P. (ed), 2000
This book demonstrates that the sexual oppression of Muslim women is not the
result of an Islamic vision of sexuality, but a combination of political, social
and economic inequalities practiced through the ages.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/pinar_sexuality.htm
- Sexual Orientation and Zimbabwe’s New Constitution: A Case for Inclusion,
Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ), 1999
This paper shows how the human rights approach to development, which sets universal
standards, can be used by sexual minorities to claim equality and freedom from
discrimination.
http://www.siyanda.org/static/galz_zimbabwe.htm
Summaries written by BRIDGE Team members. More Siyanda resources on the above
topic can be found through the Simple Search function:
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II. Websites of Interest:
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- Behind the Mask: A website on Gay and Lesbian Affairs in Africa
http://www.mask.org.za/index2.html
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This is a non-profit website magazine on gay and lesbian affairs in Africa.
It features country profiles on the situation of lesbian and gays in each African
country, and the latest Behind the Mask Magazine considers lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender issues across three continents – Africa, Asia and Latin
America (Available in French and Portuguese as well as English).
- Convencion: Website for the Campaign for an Inter American Convention on Sexual
and Reproductive Rights
http://www.convencion.org.uy/
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Organised by the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s
Rights. Provides information on events, laws, national activities, media articles
and other materials on rights to sexual health and sexual pleasure, abortion,
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender sexualities and more (available only
in Spanish).
- Network of Sex Work Projects
http://www.nswp.org/
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The Network of Sex Work Projects was founded in 1991 as an informal alliance
which participates in independently financed projects in partnership with member
organisations and technical support agencies. The site contains information
on health, safety, rights, mobility and ethics in regard to sex workers, as
well as news bulletins relating to sex workers worldwide.
III. Sexuality Grants:
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Ford Foundation: Sexuality and Reproductive Health Grants Program:
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Sexuality and Reproductive Health, a field addressed in all three of the foundation's
program divisions, supports efforts to build knowledge, develop policy and deepen
public understanding of sexuality and its relationship to human fulfillment,
culture, religion and identity.
For more information on how to apply contact:
Secretary
The Ford Foundation
320 East 43 Street
New York, N.Y. 10017
e-mail: office-secretary@fordfound.org
http://www.fordfound.org/
Astraea Foundation: International Fund for Sexual Minorities:
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Astraea International Fund for Sexual Minorities was established through a donor-directed
grant from the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the initial efforts of the
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. The creation of this
Fund acknowledges the growing global movement for the human rights of sexual
minorities and the well-documented need to support groups that enhance the lives
of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (l/g/b/t) peoples worldwide.
If you have any questions about this application, please contact:
Astraea Foundation
116 East 16th Street, 7th Floor,
New York, NY 10003
Phone: 212-529-8021
Fax: 212-982-3321
Email: info@astraeafoundation.org
http://www.astraea.org/
Mama Cash: Sexual and Reproductive Rights:
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Mama Cash supports women's groups that champion a woman's right to control her
own body. Groups, for example, that convince traditional leaders in Africa of
the horrific physical and emotional consequences of female circumcision, or
women who open abortion clinics in Latin America to prevent further deaths by
unsafe abortion. Support also goes to women in Armenia who provide legal aid
for victims of domestic violence, to groups that provide information to sex
workers about the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS, as well as to women-initiated
projects in the Ukraine attempting to bring an end to prevailing homophobia.
For more information on how to apply contact:
Mama Cash
1e Helmersstraat 17
P.O. Box 15686
1001 ND Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: (+31)20 - 689 36 34
Fax: (+31)20 - 683 46 47
Email: info@mamacash.nl
http://www.mamacash.nl/english/
IV. On-line Discussion: Sexuality
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Should development interventions address issues of sexuality, and in what ways?
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