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    New Tactics in Human Rights

    New Tactics in Human Rights is project of the Center for Victims of Torture. CVT's mission is to heal the wounds of torture, and to stop its practice worldwide.
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    Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice

    UN Women, 2011
    What are the legal frameworks in place to ensure women’s rights and access to justice? How do these laws translate into equality in practice? What interventions are needed to make justice a reality rather than an aspiration for women? These are some of the questions considered in this first major UN Women report.
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    Liberia is not just a man thing: transitional justice lessons for women, peace and security

    International Center for Transitional Justice, 2008
    The experiences of Liberian women have much to teach the world about women’s role in peacebuilding. Not only were women strategic in influencing Liberia’s 2003 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, but Liberia also boasts the first elected woman head of state on the African continent.
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    Building women into peace

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Peace-building has become a major industry since the 1990s. The international community has shifted its focus from ceasefires to the active creation of democratic societies. But international peace-building efforts regularly ignore the needs of women, despite the use of ‘women’s rights’ as justification for intervention.
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    Fear and want: obstacles to human security

    Social Watch, 2004
    Acknowledging that it is impossibe to answer many specific questions on current events, this report aims to make its own contribution to the debate by examining which grassroots organisations around the world are engaged in the frontline of the battle against poverty and discrimination.
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    Burundi: Rape - the hidden human rights abuse

    Amnesty International, 2004
    This report examines rape in the context of armed conflict in Burundi. It looks at how the legal framework fails to provide justice for victims of rape and sexual violence, and argues that urgent action is required to address the situation.
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    "We want to live as humans": repression of women and girls in Western Afghanistan

    Human Rights Watch, 2002
    This report argues that post-Taliban Afghanistan has failed to lift the severe restrictions and violations on women and children's human rights. This is due to the fact that in many areas Taliban officials have been replaced by warlords, police officers, and local officials with similar attitudes toward women.
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    Human rights and democratic development in Africa: policy considerations for Africa's development in the new millennium

    Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2002
    This paper argues that Nepad fails to adequately define democracy or to examine the relationship between development, peace, democracy and the realisation of human rights.
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    HIV/AIDS as a human security issue: a gender perspective

    United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2000
    The HIV/AIDS epidemic today is not simply a health issue. Its spread and impact cuts across all levels of society causing important consequences for human security.

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