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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
    To what extent has the post-war rehabilitation process in Kosovo responded to gender perspectives? This report reflects on international intervention and analyses the role of women in promoting gender equality in post war Kosovo and bringing a gender perspective to independence negotiations.
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    'Giving out their daughters for their survival' refugee self-reliance, vulnerability, and the paradox of early marriage

    Refugee Law Project, Uganda, 2008
    How do early marriages in Uganda's refugee settlements contribute to or reduce vulnerability?
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    The Girl Child and Armed Conflict: Recognizing and Addressing Grave Violations of Girls? Human Rights

    2006
    During armed conflict, girls are subject to widespread and sometimes systematic human rights violations that have mental, physical and material repercussions. These violations can include: illegal detention, abduction and forced removal from families and homes, forced recruitment into fighting forces, slavery, sexual exploitation and increased exposure to HIV/AIDS.
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    Seeking Protection: Addressing Sexual and Domestic Violence in Tanzania's Refugees

    2000
    This study documents the situation of Burundian refugees in Tanzanian refugee camps in 1997.
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    The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia

    Publishers WWW sites, 2007
    How was feminist rhetoric affected by the war in Yugoslavia? This book questions the media attention on women directly involved in the conflict - most notably the protesters. It argues that the media representation of the female protesters shaped the language of how women were perceived.
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    Gender, Social Support and Post-traumatic Stress in Postwar Kosovo

    Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004
    Men and women may feel the impact on their mental health of traumatic experiences in conflict situations in different ways, and may also respond differently to social support. This Kosovo Emergency Department Study was conducted in July-August 2001 to assess mental health two years after the end of the war.
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    Effacing the Male: Gender, Misrepresentation, and Exclusion in the Kosovo War

    National Coalition of Free Men, 2001
    How did Western mass media present gender issues in its coverage of the 1999 Kosovo war? This article focuses on media representation of gender-selective mass killing of "battle-age" ethnic-Albanian men. A broad sample of media commentary is presented, demonstrating that "unworthy" male victims tend to be marginalised or ignored in mass-media coverage.
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    Municipal Gender Trainings in Kosovo

    2004
    Kosovo's post-conflict transition period and shift towards democracy presented an opportunity to bring attention to gender issues. It was hoped that increasing women's agency in and ownership of political processes would contribute towards reducing poverty regionally, and that improved access to the public sphere would help increase girls' education rates and female employment rates.
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    Gender Profile of the Conflict in Kosovo

    2007
    Kosovar women experienced the 1999 conflict in a multitude of ways. While in a few cases they took up arms, the majority lived through the crisis as civilians. Thousands of Kosovar women were victims of ?ethnic cleansing? and thousands were killed.
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    Gender-Based Violence in Kosovo - a Case Study

    United Nations Population Fund, 2005
    What do prominent Kosovar activists and representatives of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international organisations say about gender based violence (GBV) during pre-war, wartime (1998-1999) and post-war periods?

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