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Realising Sexual Rights Event: International Workshop 2005

  • Dates: 28 September 2005 - 30 September 2005
  • Location: IDS

28-30 September 2005 - IDS, Sussex

This workshop brought together activists, academics, practitioners and donors grappling with issues of sexuality, rights and development.
 
Full agenda for workshop and associated activities
Agenda with session abstracts

The workshop aimed to:
  • Provide a space for thinking about the possibilities of such an approach, and its implications for development.
  • Generate materials that will be of use to a wider audience - from case studies of innovative and inspiring practices to a succinct policy briefing that highlights some of the key issues at stake, and their broader implications for development.
The workshop included discussion of the following questions:

  • What kind of sexuality-related rights are activists and others in different developing countries demanding?
  • How should development relate to sexuality?
  • Is the frame of sexual rights a useful one?
  • What do people understand by sexual rights?
  • How to be able to say yes to a happy sexuality of our choice which is safe in relation to HIV/AIDS, other STIs and violence?
  • How do sensations and emotions motivate people into safer or riskier sex?
  • How can we build on the power of pleasure to motivate safer sexualities?
  • How can we promote well-being through sexual rights? How can we better explore the complex relationships between power and desire?
Participants were asked to share in advance of the workshop a short paper that addresses the links, gaps and challenges for linking sexuality, rights and development - either by telling the story of a particular experience, project or programme, or discussing a particular issue or set of issues.

Please contact Jenny Edwards for further information on this workshop.

Papers from the Realising Sexual Rights Workshop
 
Development's Marginalisation of Sexuality (pdf): report of an IDS workshop, Andrea Cornwall, Gender and Development 14.2, July 2006

Right to Sexual Autonomy: A Human Right? An Enquiry in the Context of Criminalization of CIATON in India (short summary)
Reflections on the Rights Language and Queer Sexuality (short summary)
Realising Malagasy Women's Sexual Rights: a Step Towards Development (short summary)
Promotion of Sexual Rights in Africa: Lessons from the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre Initiative (short summary)
The Club for Women's Advancement (short summary)
Good Women Bad Women: Addressing Violence in Women's Lives by Examining Social Constructs of Gender and Sexuality within CARE (short summary)
Working with Young Men to Promote Gender Equality: An Experience in Brazil and Latin America (short summary)
Eroticism, Sensuality and “Women's Secrets” among the Baganda: A Critical Analysis (short summary)
Terms of Contact and Touching Change: Investigating Pleasure in an HIV Epidemic (short summary)
The Pleasure Project: Global Mapping of Pleasure (Word doc)

Sex Workers Struggles in Bangladesh: Learnings for the Women's Movement (short summary)
Inclusion of Men and Boys in the Public Actions of Reproductive Health in Brazil (short summary)
Debating Sex Talk in South Africa (short summary)
Whose Sexuality Counts? Politic Visions of the Poor and their Sexualities. The possibilities of Rights Based Approaches and Participation (short summary)
Spotlights on Rights. Reproductive Rights and Community Action in Columbia: an Exercise in Social Accountability (short summary)
Colonial and Development Control as Economic Development (short summary)