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Sexual orientation, gender identity and expression
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Children with Diverse Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression (SOGIE) Qualitative Research Report
This study focuses on children with diverse Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression (SOGIE) and employs qualitative methods. Therefore, it does not aim to generalize findings to statistical populations. Rather, the study aims to provide insights
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Children with Diverse Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity/Expression Evidence to Action Brief
This study explores the life experiences of children with diverse SOGIE in different environments – school, family, and community – to which they were exposed. Data suggest that children with diverse SOGIE experienced stigma, bullying, discrimination, har
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The Only Way is Up: Monitoring and encouraging diverse SOGIESC inclusion in the humanitarian and DRR sectors
Before, during and after disasters and conflicts, people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) experience discrimination, violence, and exclusion. In this report, the meaning of inclusion is
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2020-2023 Gender Strategy: Protecting children affected by armed conflict in Sub Saharan Africa Programme
Since 2017, Save the Children has affirmed its commitment to advancing gender equality in its work through the adoption of a new Gender Equality Policy. This gender strategy will guide the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Save the Children’s P
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The Gendered Dimensions of Armed Conflict on Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Analysing the risks and consequences of armed conflict on children from a gendered perspective makes visible the differentiated ways in which girls, boys and children of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristi
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“They Treated Us in Monstrous Ways”: Sexual violence against men, boys, and transgender women in the Syrian conflict
Since the onset of the Syrian conflict, men, boys, and transgender women have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence by the Syrian Government and armed non-state actors. Men who are perceived as gay or bisexual and trans women have been
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Save the Children Documentary: Kim- young LGBTQ in South Africa
Violence and discrimination are part of everyday life for young LGBTQ people in South Africa. But 17-year-old Kim has decided- no one should tell her how to live her life. In this episode of Save the Children Documentary we follow Kim from Johannesburg fo
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Save the Children's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE) Policy Position
Save the Children's vision is a world in which every child attains their right to survival, protection, development, and participation, in accordance with UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. To achieve this vision, Save the Children is committed to
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Regional Learning Session on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) and Child Rights
The regional learning session served as a safe space for meaningful dialogue between child rights advocates, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) advocates to find synergies for cross-movement collaboration. The workshop to
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The Strong and the Proud, Unconventional Fathers Who Care
A brief case study describing gender mainstreaming approaches used in the First Read Southern Thailand project.
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When Merely Existing is a Risk: Sexual and gender minorities in conflict, displacement and peacebuilding
International Alert presents an in-depth review of research conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Columbia, Lebanon and Nepal on the vulnerabilities of sexual and gender minorities (SGM) in peacebuilding and post-conflict settings. Gender identify and sexu
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Being LGBT Young People in Vietnam: Life on the streets and the light through the crack, A summary of research findings
Produced by Save the Children in Vietnam and the Institute of Social and Medical Studies, Being LGBT Young People in Vietnam: Life on the Streets and the Light through the Crack is the first of its kind in Vietnam. It hopes to provide NGOs, child and yout