Rebecca Hodes presents research in Frankfurt

Rebecca Hodes, Deputy Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit, presented her research at a roundtable discussion of policy makers and international development partners in Frankfurt last week.
The research, which focuses on the emergence of the civil society and legal advocacy coalition which formed to influence the reform of sexual offences laws in South Africa, was conducted under the aegis of the Developmental Leadership Program (a research initiative of the World Bank).
The paper is entitled, 'Structure and Agency in the Politics of a Women's Rights Coalition in South Africa: The Making of the Sexual Offences Act'. It can be accessed here. It is co-authored with Jennifer Thorpe and Orly Stern.
For a brief review of the paper, see Duncan Green's blog for Oxfam, 'From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States Can Change the World'. at http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=4696