GBV in conflicts and emergencies
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- Men rejecting violence
- ( Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit , 2009)
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An analysis of the different roles that men and women can play as a conflict unfolds offers new perspectives to help understand wars and restore peace in post-war societies. This short document sho...
Protecting refugee women in Darfur from sexual assult
- ( Physicians for Human Rights , 2009)
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It is over five years since many refugee women and their families them fled their burned villages, ransacked homes and ruined fields in Chad and streamed across the Sudan border. This report a...
- Does conflict lead to violence and sexual violence against women?
- ( H. Haider / Governance and Social Development Resource Centre , 2009)
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In this document the author seeks to respond to the critical question:
Conflict has often been associated with rape. Has conflict inevitably been associated with increases in violence against... - EU response to women and armed conflict
- ( A. Sherriff;K. Barnes / European Centre for Development Policy Management , 2008)
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Women’s multiple and diverse roles in conflict are hidden, poorly understood and, at times, consciously or unconsciously dismissed. Women are usually...
- Forced marriage in the Lords Resistence Army, Uganda
- ( K. Carlson;D. Mazurana / Feinstein International Center, USA , 2008)
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This paper focuses on the experiences of those women and girls forcibly married within the Lords Resistence Army (LRA) in Uganda, and their attempts to reintegrate in civilian life after captivity....
- Can Iraqi women refugees be helped?
- ( S. Chynoweth;M. McKenna / Women's Refugee Commission , 2008)
- This paper presents the problems facing Iraqi refugees in Jordan, highlighting the plight of women and children. The authors discuss their first hand picture of difficulties faced by displaced, abando...
- Reparations to the victims of sexual violence in Sierra Leone
- ( Amnesty International , 2007)
- In this paper, Amnesty International raises its concern over the lacking commitment of the government in Sierra Leone to provide meaningful reparations to the victims of sexual violence, six years aft...
International response in Darfur must focus on survivors of sexual violence
- ( S Martin / Refugees International , 2007)
- Sexual violence defines the conflict in Darfur. This report argues that whilst the primary obstacles to preventing rape and assisting survivors are the perpetrators and the Sudanese government officia...
- New Amnesty International report: sexual violence against women and the conflict in Cote d'Ivoire
- ( Amnesty International , 2007)
- This Amnesty International (AI) report reveals the horrifying extent of sexual violence against women and girls taking place in the context of the current conflict in Cote d'Ivoire and points out that...
- Addressing violence against women in conflicts
- ( A. Brody / Eldis News Weblog , 2007)
- Violence against women (VAW) is being seen increasingly as the biggest obstacle to gender equality and quality of life for women on a global scale. Several new publications highlight the issue of VAW,...
