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  Kidnapping Brides in Kyrgyzstan: Prescriptive Human Rights Measures

  Human Rights Tribune, 2000

  Bride kidnapping has been revived as an authentic Kyrgyz tradition, resulting in the large-scale violation of women's rights in the name of preserving Kyrgyz 'culture'. This practice was outlawed during Soviet rule and is technically still illegal under the Kyrgyz's Criminal Code.
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  Gender and the Peacekeeping Military: A View from Bosnian Women's Organisations

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  What are the consequences for the work of women's NGOs in regions that host armed international peacekeepers? This chapter draws out observations and potential policy lessons from a study conducted with eight women's organisations located in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Sprska.
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  Contested Terrain: Oxfam, Gender, and the Aftermath of War

  Oxfam, 2001

  The topic of gender relations in the context of conflict covers highly sensitive terrain, not only within the war-torn society, but for intervening institutions. Like other international humanitarian agencies, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has faced difficult questions about whether its presence has sometimes done more harm than good.
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  The Integration of Women's Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership/L'integration des Droits des Femmes dans le Partenariat Euro-Mediterraneen

  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2003

  The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, launched in 1995, provides a framework for political, economic and social relations between the 12 partners of the southern Mediterranean and 15 European Union member states. This report explores the dynamics that hinder and promote women's rights within this partnership and in the Middle East and North Africa.

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