MEMBER PUBLICATIONS

Centre for Rights Education and Awareness (CREAW): A Teenager's Guide to Sexuality and Reproductive Health Questions 2008. This booklet is a quick source of knowledge for the sexuality needs of adolescents and the youth. It answers the when, why, how and where queries they have on various issues on reproductive health as they grow up. The booklet will give adolescents the knowledge about their sexual and reproductive rights to enable them make responsible decisions. View booklet [here] or see it in its permanent location member publications/reports

Coalition on Violence Against Women – Kenya: Laikipia (West) Rapid Assessment of the Situation of Women and children in IDP Camps, April 2008. The report provides insight to violence experienced by women and children as a result of conflict over land in the larger Laikipia. The district is characterized by livestock theft, competition for water and land resources by pastoralists and farmers. This has lead to the displacement of thousands of people from their homes to IDP camps. View report [here] or see it in its permanent location member publications/reports

Equality Now: A Press release detailing the court victory of a young Zambian girl who was raped by her teacher while she was 13 years. A noteworthy element in this decision is that it cites and incorporates the standards set in the African Union’s Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, which Zambia ratified on 2 May 2006. View press release [here] or see it in its permanent location member publications/reports

Health Integrated Development Organization (HIDO): Sexual and Gender based Violence Project progress report April 2008. This report provides an overview of HIDOs project implemented with the support of UNFPA in Northern Uganda’s Internally Displaced People’s Camps. View the document [here] or see it in its permanent location member publications/reports

Nihambe Trust: Ubuntu News, June 2008. Updates from Nihambe on their theatre for development on violence against women in Zimbabwe with the performance of ‘I love you violently.’. View document [here] or see it in its permanent location member publications/reports

Population Council: Sexual and Gender based Violence in Africa: Key Issues in Programming. A summary literature review on SGBV for developing a comprehensive model (model or module) of care support and prevention that can be adopted by other organizations. View the report [here] or see it in its permanent location member publications/reports

SHARE Project – Rakai Health Sciences Program Uganda: The Role of Extended Families in Promoting Sexual Abuse among Young Girls by Fredinah Namatovu 2008. Fredinah shares an experience of a young girl facing sexual abuse from members of her extended family; Fredinah questions the safety of the traditional extended family. View the document [here] or see it in its permanent location member publications/reports

NON-MEMBER PUBLICATIONS

African Family Health: IEC materials developed for the GBV Sub cluster with support from UNFPA in response to the recent post-election crisis in Kenya. View the materials [here] or see them in their permanent location non-member publications/reports

The Info Project: Intimate partner violence and reproductive health of women in Kenya this report describes the association between IPV and reproductive health of women in Kenya using the Demographic and Health Survey of 2003. View the document [here] or see it in its permanent location non-member publications/reports

The INFO Project: VIDEO, Fighting the Silence: Sexual Violence against Women in Congo "Fighting the Silence" tells the story of ordinary Congolese women and men who are struggling to change their society: one that prefers to blame victims rather than prosecute rapists. Rape survivors and their families speak out openly about the suffering they endured because their culture considers women second class citizens and rape as a taboo. They give voice to thousands of other survivors and their families who have chosen to hide their grief and remain silent for fear of being rejected by their families and community. View the video [here] or see it in its permanent location non-member publications/reports

Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Outcry of International Criminal Court’s scrapping of rape charges. This feature highlights the outrage of victims of sexual violence in DRC angered by court’s controversial move. Congolese women who’ve fallen victim to rape and related crimes say they feel badly let down by the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC recommends that all sexual violence charges relating to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC should be dropped.The ICC decision followed an internal squabble over the protection of witness , which was reported by IWPR last week. Charges of sexual slavery were removed from the indictments against militia leaders Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo, who face a confirmation of charges for hearing late this month in The Hague. View the feature [here] or see it in its permanent location non-member publications/reports

Save the Children: No One to Turn To: The Under-reporting of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Aid Workers and Peacekeepers (2008). This report seeks to reinvigorate efforts to address the sexual abuse and exploitation of children by the very people hired to help them aid workers and peacekeepers. Based on research with communities and international organizations, this publication examines the chronic under-reporting of abuse and the inadequate response to it. It provides new analysis on why this abuse persists despite international efforts to stop it, and proposes new solutions to tackle it. View the report [here] or see it in its permanent location non-member publications/reports

World Bank: Young Men and the Construction of Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict, and Violence by Gary Barker and Christine Ricardo. This working paper from the World Bank examines the role of gender for young men in Africa, particularly as it relates to HIV/AIDS, conflict, and violence. The aim of this paper is to explore what a gender perspective means, as applied to young men in Africa, when focusing on conflict, violence, and HIV/AIDS. It explores the construction of manhood in Africa and argues for the application of a more sophisticated gender analysis that also includes men and boys. View the report [here] or see it in its permanent location non-member publications/reports

World Health Organization: Primary prevention of intimate partner violence and sexual violence: background paper (May 2007). A background paper, based on a draft prepared for an April 2007 expert meeting on preventing intimate partner violence and sexual violence. The paper explores what can be done to prevent violence against adolescent and adult women which occurs within intimate relationships, and sexual violence that occurs outside intimate relationships. View the document [here] or see it in its permanent location non-member publications/reports