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Sex and Sexuality
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of global thinkers reflecting on how sex and sexuality affect individuals’ roles in their societies. In our Anatomy feature, the brilliant Saudi Arabian female film director Haifaa al-Mansour takes us inside the making of her multi-award winning film Wadjda , the first feature film shot inside the Kingdom...
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The Big Question: How Do Sex and Sexuality Affect One’s Role in Society?
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Academy in Johannesburg. She runs a sexuality discussion group with youth from 30 African countries. Siddharth Dube is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute based in India. His forthcoming book is a personal history of outlawed love, focusing on gay and sex work issues. Tam Nguyen...
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Timeline: Politicization of Sexuality
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 48–49.
Published: 01 March 2014
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Rape and the President: The Remarkable Trial and (Partial) Acquittal of Hissène Habré
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 16–22.
Published: 01 June 2017
... crimes, and crimes against humanity still stand, Kim Thuy Seelinger , the director of the Sexual Violence Program at the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley, writes that Zidane’s case raises an important question: How can courts balance survivors’ readiness to disclose...
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“My Heart is Always Scared”: The Simmering Mental Health Crisis for Rape Victims in War
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 87–90.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Skye Wheeler Support for victims of sexual violence is underfunded nearly everywhere, but the need for these mental health services is particularly acute in conflict and post-conflict zones. Skye Wheeler , a women’s rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, examines the uphill battle to provide care...
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Sex and the Barrio: A Clash of Faith in Latin America
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
... previously worked in Nicaragua. © World Policy Institute 2011 2011 World Policy Institute Buenos Aires—On a cold and rainy evening, some 200 women march through the center of Buenos Aires to raise awareness about sexual violence. Despite the weather, many demonstrators flaunt their femininity...
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Provocations: The 1968 revolution and our own
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 124–129.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Slavoj Žižek The problem is here the obvious arbitrariness of the ever-new rules. Let us take child sexuality: One can argue that its criminalization represents unwarranted discrimination, but one can also argue that children should be protected from sexual molestation by adults. And we could go...
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Trans[ition] in Iran
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 28–38.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Institute Photo: Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran—When Shadi Amin was growing up in pre-revolutionary Iran, she began experiencing sexual feelings toward other girls. “I thought there was something wrong with me,” she says. “I thought, maybe I should change something.” By “something,” Amin...
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Gender Trouble: On Egypt’s revolution and the future of international feminism
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 42–47.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Sarah Leonard; Yasmin El-Rifae This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. El-Rifae: I knew when I was working with Op-AntiSH that the story of the organization and its resistance to sexual violence during the revolution needed to be shared. It has been sort...
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A “Witch Hunt Against Poor Women”: Across the Americas, Abortion Laws are Harming Health and Security
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 26–34.
Published: 01 December 2016
... are among the most extreme, they are hardly the only prohibitions in the region. From Colombia to the United States, laws restricting access to abortion are pushing women toward unsafe procedures and stigmatizing those who seek reproductive health care. Alarming rates of sexual violence further exacerbate...
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Unveiling Koovagam
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 91–99.
Published: 01 June 2014
... in an ancient rite of passage and of spiritual rebirth. Moreover, because of Koovagam, the institutional acceptance of alternative gender and sexual identities has the potential to serve as a symbolic testament to the age-old endurance of tolerance and acceptance. And because of this, South Asia, and India...
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Aiding and Abetting: Why Western Fundraising Fails to Stop the Spread of AIDS
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 109–114.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and smallpox. But unlike polio or smallpox, stopping HIV involves confronting sexual and cultural nuances that make people uncomfortable and that Western money alone can’t overcome. Even if bureaucrats, donors, or researchers begin advocating for changes in prevention strategies, immense political inertia...
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Emboldened by Outsiders, Restricted At Home: How Sexism Holds Back Queer Women in West and Central Africa
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (1): 75–80.
Published: 01 March 2017
... first felt this attraction, but I was very young,” she said. Unlike most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Ivory Coast has never criminalized homosexuality. But codification is not culture, and alternative sexualities are highly stigmatized. (For this reason, names have been changed in this story...
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Crashing the Party: The radical legacy of a Soviet-era feminist
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 70–74.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., Kollontai left her husband and young son to study economics at the University of Zürich. Kollontai believed that women needed to participate in the labor force to become economically independent of men. In her view, sexual relations between men and women were poisoned by capitalism: With no means...
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Safe Spaces: As the Syrian crisis forces women to fend for themselves, female refugees in Jordan are learning to cope
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 99–106.
Published: 01 March 2018
... responsible for caring for their children and supporting their families, and were often made to endure terrible sexual harassment in the process. The building has 22 small apartments and currently houses 34 families. Families with fewer children and those who already know each other live together...
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The Trump Effect: Elections at Home and Abroad Dampen Liberia’s Gay-Rights Revival
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 83–89.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of Clinton’s speech, there was just one Liberian organization devoted to working with sexual minorities: Stop AIDS in Liberia, or SAIL, which, as the name suggests, focuses on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS among men who have sex with men. The group had seven members working out of a cramped office...
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HIV and the Arab Spring: An Unseen War
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 108–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... Nearly one in ten people in Jordan is a Syrian refugee. As is the case in Lebanon, various vulnerable categories overlap that increase the risk of HIV infection. Dire economic conditions have led to early marriage and sexual exploitation of Syrian women, aid workers told The Guardian early last year...
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Forbidden Colors: Homosexuality has traditionally been accepted in Japan, but the country’s laws have yet to catch up
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 49–53.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., the rights of sexual minorities have come to the fore. For example, in 2009, a nonprofit called ReBit was formed, its founders explaining that the name of the organization comes from an abbreviation of its mission to keep “pushing LGBT awareness re peatedly, a little bit each time.” Though the first case...
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Haiti, Violated
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (1): 93–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
... against rape. During domestic violence and rape trials, rights groups filled courtrooms with women who sat in silent protest of the status quo. Their tactics worked. Those found guilty of rape or sexual assault can be sentenced to 10 years in prison. Penalties are more severe when the victim is 15...
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Friendship Amid Frenzy: The Correspondence of Kamel Daoud and Adam Shatz
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 67–69.
Published: 01 June 2016
... as refugees in Europe. As Jews say at Passover (which Israelis in Palestine have forgotten): We must always remember that we were strangers in the land of Egypt. I’m not saying that we should refrain from speaking at all about the question of sexual freedom in the Arab-Islamic world—of course we shouldn’t...
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