18 March 2016
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8 March 2016
Connecting Perspectives on Women’s Empowerment
A new IDS Bulletin entitled Connecting Perspectives on Women’s Empowerment makes a timely contribution to our understanding of how ideas around empowerment have evolved and how we can move forward to expand women’s opportunities and choices and realise women’s empowerment in a meaningful way.
1 March 2016
1 March 2016
IDS research illuminates avenues to advance sexuality and gender justice
A new Edited Collection from IDS entitled Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do with It? highlights the scope and limitations of the legal and policy frameworks on which we are often reliant to advance gender and sexuality justice.
Gender and Sexuality: What’s law got to do with it?
This seminar marks the launch of the Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice Edited Collection. Comprising 33 articles, photo essays, interviews and thought pieces with academics, activists and legal practitioners from over twenty countries in the world, the speakers will reflect on the complexity of the deceptively simple question posed by the Collection’s title: Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do With It?
26 February 2016
Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do with It?
Published by: IDS
The contributions to this Edited Collection reveal the complexity of the deceptively simple question posed by its title: Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do With It?
3 February 2016
Transgender at Work: Livelihoods for Transgender People in Vietnam
Published by: IDS
The laws in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam promote equality for all citizens and refer to ‘persons’ rather than ‘men’ or ‘women’. However, because of traditional gender norms, transgender people in Vietnam are facing severe stigma and discrimination in public, in schools, at home and in the workplace (CCIHP 2011; Hoang 2012; ICS 2015; iSEE 2013).
27 January 2016
Living on the Periphery: The Khawaja Siras of Pakistan
Published by: IDS
Academic literature suggests that development is inherently heteronormative in its narratives, policies and practices: as a result, ‘heterosexuality is normalized, naturalized, and privileged in societies of the global South, in the international development field, and in colonial and post/neo-colonial narratives of the so-called Third World or global South’ (Lind 2010: 7).
12 November 2015
Religion, Gender and Sexuality Workshop Report: 1–5 June 2015, Garden Court Hotel, Eastgate, Johannesburg
Published by: IDS
Religious doctrine shapes and informs decision-making at the individual and collective levels, and sexuality and gender rights advocates must therefore work with faith-based organisations and religious activists to challenge harmful and discriminatory sexuality and gender norms and practices.
28 October 2015
Sexuality, Development and Non-conforming Desire in the Arab World: The Case of Lebanon and Egypt
Published by: IDS
In many developing countries, sexual rights are commonly depicted as trivial concerns pertaining to wealthy citizens of a ‘developed’ Western world. The ‘developing’ world is often thought to have more pressing problems to deal with, such as poverty, violence and corruption.