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    Forced marriage within the Lord’s Resistance Army, Uganda

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
    This paper focuses on the experiences of those women and girls forcibly married within the Lords Resistence Army (LRA) in Uganda, and their attempts to reintegrate in civilian life after captivity. It documents and describes how females were often beaten, raped, impregnated, and forced to assume the role of ‘wife’ to the fighters or commanders to whom they were given.
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    Because I am a girl: the state of the world's girls 2008

    Plan International, 2008
    This report focuses on girls living in the shadow of war. It outlines how girls are affected differently from every other section of society in countries teetering on the edge of conflict, during war and in its aftermath.
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    Taking stock update: Afghan women and girls seven years on

    Womankind, 2008
    Seven years after the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan is still one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman. It has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world, one of the highest rates of domestic violence and is perhaps the only country where suicide rates are higher among women than men.
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    An approach to the Kosovo post-war rehabilitation process from a gender perspective

    L'Escola de Cultura de Pau/ The School for a Culture of Peace, 2008
    From a gender perspective, the post-war rehabilitation process in Kosovo has been complex and offers mixed results The authors of this paper look at this post-war rehabilitation process paying particular attention to its gender dimension.
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    UNHCR handbook for the protection of women and girls

    United Nations [UN] High Commission for Refugees, 2008
    Today, women and girls everywhere still face greater obstacles claiming and enjoying their rights than do men and boys. Displacement generally exacerbates these inequalities, as does a tendency to focus on human rights abuses in public, rather than private, spheres. Gender inequality is at the heart of sexual and gender-based violence.
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    Women and nation-building

    RAND Corporation, 2008
    This study was undertaken to examine the role of women in post-conflict nation-building. In particular it looks at the impact of post-conflict societal circumstances and nation-building processes on the status and situation of female populations.
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    Girls in fighting forces: moving beyond victimhood

    Capacity Development Web Site, Canadian International Development Agency, 2007
    This paper examines the experiences of girls in armed conflict. Focusing on the extent to which girls are marginalised during and following armed conflict, it traces the perspectives of girls as victims, and resisters of violence in Africa.
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    Sierra Leone: getting reparations right for survivors of sexual violence

    Amnesty International, 2007
    In this paper, Amnesty International raises its concern over the lacking commitment of the government in Sierra Leone to provide meaningful reparations to the victims of sexual violence, six years after the end of the conflict.
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    Stronger women, stronger nations: 2007 Kosovo report

    Women for Women International, 2007
    In 1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervened to halt the Serbian campaign of ethnic cleansing, ultimately leading to Kosovo being placed under United Nations administration.  Now, eight years later, Kosovo is still under UN administration, its final status still unresolved.
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    Gender, peace and peacekeeping: lessons from Southern Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2005
    This document discusses the relationship between gender and peacekeeping in Africa. It draws on evidence from two Southern African peacekeeping experiences: the United Nations Observer Mission to South Africa (UNOMSA) and the Organisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC)

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