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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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    United Nations Development fund for Women (UNIFEM) contribution to the World Bank and IMF PRSP preview

    World Bank, 2001
    The following feedback from UNIFEM on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) review is based on assessments done by non-governmental organisations, consultants and national women’s machineries in countries with both interim and full PRSPs.Areas of concern include:one of the key areas where there is a singular lack of gender dimension in the PRSPs is that of data collection to infor
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    Gu¡a de Capacitaci¢n en G?nero (Gender Training Guide)

    BRIDGE, 2002
    The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (CVR) in Peru was set up following two decades of violence and internal conflict. The CVR has a gender programme - the L¡nea de G?nero - which formulates strategies by which the CVR can address the different effects of the political violence on women and men (see long summary in section on case studies).
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    Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in Humanitarian Crises

    2002
    The allegations of widespread sexual exploitation and abuse of refugee and internally displaced women and children by humanitarian workers and peacekeepers in West Africa have highlighted the vulnerability of refugees, internally displaced persons and others, especially women and girls.
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    Gender Audit of Reconstruction Programmes in South Eastern Europe

    Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, 2000
    In what ways could the reconstruction programmes in South Eastern Europe be strengthened to achieve greater gender equality? The Urgent Action Fund, collaborating with the Women"s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, commissioned an evaluation of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosova (UNMIK).
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    Viet Nam: Children and Women: A Situation Analysis, 2000

    2000
    Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) are mutually reinforcing and mutually dependant.
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    Women in Pakistan: Country Briefing Paper

    2000
    Women's situation in Pakistan vis-?-vis men is one of systematic subordination, determined by the forces of patriarchy across classes, regions, and the rural urban divide. The prevailing ideology of the sexual division of labour has placed women in reproductive roles as wives and mothers in the private arena of the home.

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