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Unsettled Home

Published: 15 May 2025
Research paper
What does it mean to build a family when the world tells you your love doesn’t count or that you shouldn't exist? Unsettled Home brings together stories, reflections, and realities that challenge the norm and re-frame the meaning of family.
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Intersectional Feminist Perspectives On Cybercrime Law

Published: 28 February 2025
Policy Brief
Cybercrime threatens not only digital security but also deepens social inequalities, affecting marginalized groups like women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and human rights defenders. This policy briefing explores the risks of weaponized cyber laws and proposes a human rights-based approach.
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Feminist Development Policy

Published: 22 September 2022
E-Paper
This brief contains recommendations for practitioners of the international development sector to shift the status quo of development and move towards feminist global collaboration.
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Transfeminism in Latin America

Published: 24 May 2022
Study
Die Organisation Sentiido liefert mit ihrem Bericht eine explorative Bestandsaufnahme einiger Initiativen, Führungspersönlichkeiten und Organisationen in Lateinamerika sowie Informationen über die wichtigsten Schnittpunkte, Aktionsbereiche und Herausforderungen, denen sich der lateinamerikanische Transfeminismus gegenübersieht.
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Reproductive Technologies: From emancipatory potential to selection and exploitation

Published: 2 May 2022
Factsheet
Reproductive technologies encompass a wide range of medical treatments and surgical procedures that enable people to have children without the necessity for heterosexual intercourse. The number of treatment cycles has been steadily increasing since the 1990s.
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Sexual and Reproductive Rights

Published: 23 July 2015
Women’s bodies have regularly been – and still are – the central target of conservative and fundamentalist ideology and praxis. This essay provides analytical background information for critical and controversial debates and motivation to explore political intervention.
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Anti-Gender Movements on the Rise?

Published: 21 April 2015
The concept of "gender backlash" encompasses too activities pursued by a multitude of different local initiatives all over Central and Eastern Europe, which strongly promote tradition over equality. In many cases these groups appear to be backed and inspired both by influential US-American “pro life” organisations as well as the Kremlin’s "Gay-rope" propaganda, which aims to discredit the European Union as a place of moral decline.
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Struggle for equality: Sexual orientation, gender identity and human rights in Africa

Published: 23 October 2010
This issue of Perspectives light on the ongoing struggle of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people for equality in Africa. The articles demonstrate that despite the myriad of challenges and hostile environment there is a growing movement towards changing Africa into a continent where LGBTI people enjoy the full range of human rights.
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