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Women’s Refugee Commission, Addressing Sexual Violence against Men, Boys, and LGBTIQ+ Persons in Humanitarian Settings: A Field-Friendly Guidance Note by Sector, February 2021
Women’s Refugee Commission, Sexual Violence against Men and Boys in Conflict and Displacement: Findings from a Qualitative Study in Bangladesh, Italy, and Kenya, October 2020
Women’s Refugee Commission, “We Have a Broken Heart”: Sexual Violence against Refugees in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya, October 2019
Women’s Refugee Commission, “More Than One Million Pains”: Sexual Violence Against Men and Boys on the Central Mediterranean Route to Italy, March 2019
Park, A. and Mendos L., Guiding Principles on the Inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) People in Development Policy and Programs, November 2018

These guiding principles are meant to guide all actors in designing, implementing and monitoring international, national, and local development activities related to LGBTI people. They incorporate empirical and scientific knowledge as well as current international human rights standards. They should also be an advocacy tool for stakeholders working on development issues, providing common ground between discussions and activities of actors working in development and human rights.
Family for Every Child, Caring for Boys Affected by Sexual Violence, 2018
Heilman, B., and Gary Barker, Masculine Norms and Violence: Making the Connections, Washington, DC: Promundo-US, 2018
Women’s Refugee Commission, “It’s Happening to our Men as Well”: Sexual Violence Against Rohingya Men and Boys, November 2018
Institute for International Criminal Investigations, Training materials accompanying the International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict (March 2017 edition), March 2018
MOSAIC, Male Survivors of Sexual Assault, A Manual on Evaluation and Management for General Practitioners
TRIAL International, Rape Myths in Wartime Sexual Violence Trials: Transferring the Burden from Survivors to Perpetrator, January 2018
International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, Best Practice on the Documentation of Sexual Violence as a Crime or Violation of International Law, Second Edition, March 2017
International Center for Transitional Justice, When No One Calls It Rape: Addressing Sexual Violence Against Men and Boys, July 2016
International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Conflict, Basic Standards of Best Practice on the Documentation of Sexual Violence as a Crime under International Law, First Edition, June 2014
International Criminal Court, the Office of the Prosecutor, Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes, June 2014
Dr Chris Dolan, Briefing paper prepared for the workshop held at the Overseas Development Institute “Into the Mainstream: Addressing Sexual Violence against Men and Boys in Conflict”, London, 14 May 2014
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, A Declaration of Commitment to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, 24 September 2013
The G8 Declaration on Sexual Violence launched on Thursday 11 April 2013 at Lancaster House, London
Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict, 2007