Girls' education in emergencies
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- Integrating gender issues in humanitarian responses to conflicts and emergencies
- ( United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , 2006)
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In the rush to provide humanitarian response when a disaster hits or a conflict erupts, paying specific attention to gender issues may seem irrelevant. This handbook sets forth standards for the in...
- Civil war and education: assessing the Guatemalan experience
- ( R. Chamarbagwala (ed);H.E Moran (ed) / Households in Conflict Network , 2008)
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Providing girls with safe access to schooling in crisis situations
- ( J. Kirk / UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education , 2006)
- Emergency situations often increase gender disparities in access to education but, through disrupting everyday gender relations, also provide a window of opportunity for girls and women to access educ...
- Addressing issues faced by women and children in the aftermath of the Pakistan Earthquake
- ( Khwendo Kor / Duryog Nivaran: South Asia Network for Disaster Risk Reduction , 2006)
- This report provides an insight, through interviews and observations, into the issues faced by women and children affected by the earthquake in Pakistan. It assesses the relief efforts to highlight th...
- Recommendations for improving education in Afghanistan
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2006)
- This report examines the impact of insecurity on education in Afghanistan, especially on girls’ education. It concentrates on armed attacks on the education system in the south and southeast of the co...
- Effects of conflict on schooling in Tajikistan
- ( O. Shemyakina / Households in Conflict Network , 2006)
- This paper examines the effect of the civil armed conflict from 1992 to 1998 in Tajikistan on the accumulation of schooling. It does so by combining differences in exposure to the conflict across regi...
- Mainstreaming a gender perspective in education in emergencies
- ( Women's Refugee Commission , 2006)
- This brief article discusses the issues in incorporating a gender perspective in education planning in emergencies. It presents the information required to meet the Minimum Standards for Education in...
- Situational analysis of health and well-being of women and children in Darfur
- ( United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2005)
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This report provides an overview of community perceptions about the risks women and girls currently face in Darfur as a result of the conflict.
The study’s main objectives were to gain an increased ...
- School fees preventing female participation in education
- ( Save the Children Fund , 2005)
- Universal right to education? Perhaps in theory, but not in reality. This booklet shows that school fees are the single largest global barrier to girl's education, preventing 60 million from participa...
- Adolescents girls in Chad refugee camps: what opportunities for education and protection against violence?
- ( H. Heninger; M. McKenna / Women's Refugee Commission , 2005)
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This document examines the conditions in a number of refugee camps for people from Darfur in Chad, focusing on education needs and protection from gender-based violence for adolescent girls.
The fin...
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