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Date Added to Site: 27th February 2007 |
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Short Summary
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Sexuality and Rights Workshop: Meeting Summary
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| Author |
Ahmed, N. |
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February 2007 |
| Publisher |
BRAC University |
| Donor |
The UK Department for International Development (DFID)
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Short Summary
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This paper documents the presentations given at a Sexuality Rights Workshop in Bangladesh in January 2007. The presentations drew on a diverse range of ongoing research and projects working with urban and rural populations in Bangladesh on sexual and reproductive health and gender. The focus of the presentations is on the marginalisation and discrimination faced by lesbians, gay men, transgender people, men who have sex with men and heterosexual women on the basis of their sexuality. As a result of this discrimination, many lesbians have to lead a double life and men who have sex with men may feel obliged to marry. Women who fail to conform to norms around sexuality by choosing to remain single or by having children outside of marriage may also be labelled deviant or immoral. Even women who do conform to norms around sexuality may suffer from gender-based violence, early marriage, marital rape and suppressed sexual desire. The participants emphasised the need for a clarification of Section 377 of the Penal Code in Bangladesh which criminalises sodomy. Gender issues and domestic violence was also mentioned several times throughout the course of the day. All the participants felt that it was important that these issues are a key to prevention efforts.
For more information, go to the Realising Rights website at:
http://www.realising-rights.org/index.htm
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