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  Gender and Humanitarian Assistance Resource Kit

  1998

  The IASC was established in June 1992 to serve as the primary mechanism for UN inter-agency coordination of humanitarian assistance in complex and major emergencies. The committee is committed to ensuring that a gender perspective is fully integrated into humanitarian activities and policies.
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  Demanding our Rights: A Guide to Lobbying in Palestine

  Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling, 1999

  The manual is one of very few resources in Palestinian society to address the issue of lobbying, campaigning and advocacy work. It provides directions and advice on how to plan, organise and carry out lobbying and advocacy efforts. These tools are instrumental in influencing legislators and decision-makers.
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  What Women Do in War Time: Gender and Conflict in Africa

  Zed Books Limited, 1998

  What is the legacy of armed conflict on the roles and experiences of women in Africa? This collection of reports, testimonies and analyses portrays the diverse experiences of women all over Africa who have lived through civil wars, apartheid, genocide and gendered political violence such as rape.
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  Luchando por la Justicia: las Mujeres Peruanas en la B£squeda de Los desaparecidos [Fighting forJustice: Peruvian Women in the Search for the Disappeared]

  BRIDGE, 2003

  How has a gender analysis been used in areas of post-conflict? In Peru, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) was set up following two decades of political violence spanning the period from 1980 to 2000.
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  Arms to Fight, Arms to Protect: Women Speak out about Conflict

  Panos Institute, London, 1995

  The survival struggles of ordinary women - whether as fighters, rape survivors, camp inhabitants, mothers or peacemakers - are highlighted in the accounts of conflict situations covered in this report. As part of the process of compiling testimonies, the authors set up partnerships with interested women's groups in different countries.
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  Combatientes y Genero: Implicaciones para la Reintegracion [Combatants and Gender: Implications for Reintegration]

  World Bank, 1999

  Statistics suggest that at the very least, 30 per cent of the combatants in El Salvador's internal armed conflict were women. This paper looks at the situation of female combatants in post-conflict situations, using real-life case studies. The transition from home to combat life represents a massive shift in roles for women.
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  The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping

  Lawrence and Wishart, 2002

  How do social relations change as a result of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction? This collection of essays links the experiences of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H), with that of the Netherlands, a country that deployed a large peacekeeping force in the war-stricken area.
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  "Fifty Voices are Better than One": Combating Social Exclusion and Gender Stereotyping in Gellideg, in the South Wales Valleys

  Oxfam, 2003

  This report tells the story of how the people of Gellideg - a housing estate in Wales - came together to take steps to combat social exclusion and gender stereotyping. Frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to their children, six local women formed the Gellideg Foundation Group.
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  Muslim Feminism and Feminist Movement: Central Asia

  Global Vision Publishing House, 2002

  The aim of this book is to explore the origin and development of Muslim feminism and feminist movements in Central Asian countries - Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Soviet Central Asia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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  Gender, Islam, Nationalism and the State in Aceh: the Paradox of Power, Co-optation and Resistance

  Routledge, 2002

  Aceh is now in a state of armed rebellion against the Indonesian government. The book analyses how female agency is constituted in Aceh, in a complex interplay of indigenous female power, Islamic belief and practices, state terror, and political violence.

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