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    Steps for Effective Advocacy

    2003
    How can NGOs work to ensure that governments are implementing international law to protect women's rights? International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Asia Pacific have released this practical guide for NGOs who wish to use the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to hold their governments accountable for upholding and enforcing women's rights.
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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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    How to Guide: [Sexual and Gender-Based Violence] SGV Programme Monitoring and Evaluation

    Health and Community Development Section, 2000
    Programmes that tackle sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) in refugee settings need to take into account a number of issues and problems unique to this context. Some of the main problems arise from the need to bring together many diverse actors who will work on the same case, such as mental and physical health care workers, the police, government workers and legal advisers/officers.
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    Gender and Development: An Information Kit

    2000
    This information kit is a tool for gender and development specialists/ consultants working in Egypt. It was produced by the Gender and Development (GAD) Sub-Group, the body responsible for coordinating and sharing information between the UN, bilateral donor and Egyptian NGOs on gender initiatives in Egypt. The kit is broken down into five booklets.
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    Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies

    Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 2000
    Controlling the sexuality of women continues to be one of the most powerful tools of patriarchy in most societies. The essays in this volume show that the sexual oppression of Muslim women is not the result of an Islamic vision of sexuality, but a combination of political, social and economic inequalities practiced through the ages.
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    States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance

    Zed Books Limited, 2000
    How is conflict a gendered phenomenon? What is the role of women's resistance in responses to the gendered impacts of conflict? The editors argue that "conflict is endemic in human societies", and that most conflict has a gender dimension. The book links global processes and the causes and consequences of armed conflict experienced on national, local and individual levels.
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    Women and War: Special Report

    International Committee of the Red Cross, 2003
    In March 2003, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) published this report as a follow-up to their piece entitled Women Facing War (see summary of previous report in Siyanda). The ICRC has long recognised that armed conflicts have devastating effects on civilian populations and on women in particular.
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    Women Facing War: The Impact of Armed Conflict on Women

    International Committee of the Red Cross, 2001
    The ICRC endeavours to raise awareness of the distinct ways in which women are negatively affected by war and conflict, and how their conditions might be improved through better implementation of existing international law, as well as greater involvement of women in all aspects of conflict resolution. As part of this initiative, the organisation published this report in 2001.
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    Women and Civil War: Impact, Organizations and Action

    Lynn Rienner Publishers, 2001
    Women are not typically passive spectators during a war, nor are they always its innocent victims. Instead, they frequently take on new roles and responsibilities, participating in military and political struggles and building new networks in order to obtain resources needed by their families.

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