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    Gender and livelihoods in emergencies

    United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2008
    The increasing recognition that responses to humanitarian crisis must work to avoid long term dependency on relief aid guides this briefing. Approaches to Early Recovery (ER) aim to support the early recovery of affected populations and create a stable basis for future development.
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    WHO Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Researching, Documenting and Monitoring Sexual Violence in Emergencies

    World Health Organization, 2008
    Sexual violence in emergencies is a complex, sensitive, and dangerous problem. Increasingly, humanitarian and human rights actors, researchers, donors, governments, civil society, and others are supporting or engaging in activities to collect information about sexual violence.This information is sought to inform prevention and response efforts as well as advocacy.
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    Gender sensitive disaster management: a toolkit for practitioners

    Earthworm Books, 2008
    The risks and vulnerabilities that people face from natural disasters are as much a product of their social situation as their physical environment. Vulnerabilities and capacities of individuals and social groups evolve over time and determine people’s abilities to cope with disaster and recover from it.
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    UN Resolution 1325: protecting women in conflict and enhancing a gender perspective in peace processes

    United Nations Population Fund, 2000
    This UN resolution relates to the protection of women and girls during armed conflict; and the promotion of a gender perspective during peace processes. Including amongst its assertions are that:
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    Housing for the landless: resettlement in Tsunami-affected Aceh, Indonesia

    Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), 2008
    Women often face pre-displacement constraints on rights to land, and are at greater risk of losing access to land after disasters. Yet, the aftermath of a disaster is the time when women most need land for recovery. This paper is structured to reflect these concerns about women and land rights in disaster-affected Indonesia.
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    Recommendations for peace-making and peace-building; securing the contributions of women and civil society

    Institute for Security Studies, 2008
    Based on the Salzburg Global Seminar where more than 60 leading thinkers from policy, practice and research met to identify actions for key stakeholders to enact inclusive peace-building processes, this paper presents the recommendations for peace making and peace building with respect to women and civil society.
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    Gender difference in the long-term impact of famine

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008
    An increasing literature examines the association between restricted fetal or early childhood growth and the incidence of diseases in adulthood. Little is known, however, about gender difference in this association.
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    Gender and landmines - from concept to practice

    Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines, 2008
    The relevance of gender has taken time to impose itself clearly to anti landmine programmers, decision-makers, implementers, donors, and stakeholders working in the area of mine action.The main treaties regulating general mine action activities (the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its additional Protocol II) are gender blind and do not explicitly discuss the
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    Natural disasters and remittances exploring the linkages between poverty, gender, and disaster vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
    The dislocation of households coupled with the loss of livelihoods caused by natural disaster, which usually affects the poor disproportionately, provides a push factor for migration and future remittances.
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    Enhancing the EU response to women and armed conflict

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2008
    Women’s multiple and diverse roles in conflict are hidden, poorly understood and, at times, consciously or unconsciously dismissed. Women are usually perceived as victims and analysis tends to examine exclusively  this idea.

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