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Gender, Sexuality and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Meta-Analysis of Mechanisms of Exclusion and Avenues for Inclusive Development
(IDS, 2016-10)Through its work, the Institute of Development Studies Sexuality, Poverty and Law programme (SPLP) provides new evidence-based knowledge and policy options that support efforts to: (1) strengthen, through legal reform, the ... -
Avenues for Donors to Promote Sexuality and Gender Justice
(IDS, 2016-06)Donor agencies agree that addressing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and/or gender identity (SOGI) is not only an important human rights issue but is also integral to efforts to alleviate poverty and ... -
Migration, Mobility and Marginalisation: Consequences for Sexual and Gender Minorities
(IDS, 2016-05)As a strategy to avoid discrimination, violence and economic marginalisation, sexual and gender non-conforming people often turn to migration as a route to achieve independence and build social capital. Recent studies by ... -
Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice: What's Law Got to Do with It?
(IDS, 2016-02)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? Many of those involved in this ... -
Transgender at Work: Livelihoods for Transgender People in Vietnam
(IDS, 2016-02)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 ... -
Living on the Periphery: The Khawaja Siras of Pakistan
(IDS, 2016-01)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 ... -
Religion, Gender and Sexuality Workshop Report: 1–5 June 2015, Garden Court Hotel, Eastgate, Johannesburg
(IDS, 2015-11)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 ... -
Sexuality, Development and Non-conforming Desire in the Arab World: The Case of Lebanon and Egypt
(IDS, 2015-10)[W]e have a lot of problems here – torture, violations against street children, we are full of problems… To come in and talk about gays and lesbians, it is nice, but it’s not the major issue. It’s like I’m starving and you ... -
‘Leave No One Behind’: Gender, Sexuality and the Sustainable Development Goals
(IDS, 2015-10)In an unprecedented move to eradicate disease, poverty and hunger, world leaders joined together in 2000 to sign into life the hotly contested but broadly agreed upon Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework. In 2015, ... -
Developing More Effective Strategies for Sex Work, Law and Poverty
(IDS, 2015-09)The welfare of female sex workers in low-income countries has attracted significant attention in recent years. In line with human rights and development goals, advocacy focuses on decriminalisation of sex work, attaining ... -
Sexuality and Social Justice: What’s Law Got to Do with It? International Symposium Workshop Report
(IDS, 2015-09)In March 2015, the Sexuality, Poverty and Law programme at the Institute of Development Studies brought together over 60 activists, lawyers, researchers and international advocates to critically assess the scope of law and ... -
Sexuality, Poverty and Politics in Rwanda
(IDS, 2015-04)Recent legislative developments in Africa have focused international attention on the legal status of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the continent. Attempts by various African governments to revise ... -
BOOSHTEE! Survival and Resilience in Ethiopia
(IDS, 2015-04)Although homosexuality is illegal in Ethiopia, same-sex behaviour is not prosecuted because the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia views homosexuality as a low law enforcement priority. While this ... -
How Filipino LBTs Cope with Economic Disadvantage
(IDS, 2015-02)After decades as the so-called ‘sick man of Asia’, the Philippines has adopted the export-driven model of economic development followed by wealthier Asian countries (Makabenta 2014) and has begun to address the pervasive ... -
Same-Sex Sexualities, Gender Variance, Economy and Livelihood in Nepal: Exclusions, Subjectivity and Development
(IDS, 2015-02)This case study explores the relationship between socioeconomic opportunity and exclusion in relation to minority gender and sexualities in Nepal. The study, a component of a wider programme on Sexuality, Poverty and Law ... -
Livelihood, Exclusion and Opportunity: Socioeconomic Welfare among Gender and Sexuality Non-normative People in India
(IDS, 2015-01)In 2014, its 67th year as a sovereign country with a population of 1.21 billion (Government of India 2011a), India is the second most populous country in the world, the most populous democracy and has the longest written ... -
Policy Audit: Sexuality and Disability in Policies Affecting Chinese People with Disabilities
(IDS, 2014-12)This policy audit examines the cultural, political and economic spheres in China from the perspective of people with disabilities. Through a series of case studies we argue that the heteronormative assumptions that underpin ... -
Research Methods and Visualisation Tools for Online LGBT Communities
(IDS, 2014-08)Field research among geographically dispersed communities is time-consuming and costly. When people are stigmatised, field research has additional ethical and logistical problems. In many countries lesbian, gay, bisexual ... -
Sex Workers, Empowerment and Poverty Alleviation in Ethiopia
(IDS, 2014-06)This case study explores economic, legal and social issues that affect sex workers, with a particular focus on the role of poverty in sex workers’ lives and the potential for poverty alleviation policies and programmes to ... -
Negotiating Public and Legal Spaces: The Emergence of an LGBT Movement in Vietnam
(IDS, 2014-06)Vietnam’s laws, policies and decrees do not explicitly discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals but their rights are not legally protected and they are socially marginalised. The state ...