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  Monitoring Implementation of UNSCR1325 in Kosovo. Executive Summary

  Kosova Women's Network, 2007

  The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR1325) defines the actions that need to be taken in order to protect women and to ensure that they participate at all levels of peacemaking, peace building and peacekeeping.
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  Conflict, State Fragility and Women's Reproductive Health: The Case of Basilan, Philippines

  Poverty Frontiers, 2006

  This research documents women's experiences during and since the armed conflict in the Basilan region of the Southern Philippines that took place between 2000 and 2003, and focuses particularly on the availability and adequacy of women's reproductive health services.
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  The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Marriage Market for Women: Results from Tajikistan

  Poverty Frontiers, 2006

  What are the links between violent conflict, marriage markets and female reproductive behaviour? This short paper explores the impact of civil wars on household and individual behaviour, using the 1992 to 1998 conflict in Tajikistan as a case study.
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  All in Diary

  2007

  The 'All In Diary' is a practical tool for field-based humanitarian workers. It aims to improve the quality and appropriateness of relief work through: increasing awareness of good humanitarian practice; providing easy and timely access to relevant information and resources; and facilitating organisational learning and programme continuity.
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  From Rhetoric to Reality: Afghan Women on the Agenda for Peace

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2005

  To what extent have Afghan women made significant gains between 2001 and 2005? This report provides an overview of mechanisms introduced by the international community to promote women's participation, including the new Ministry for Women's Affairs, political quotas, and donor aid and assistance programmes, and also examines the contributions of Afghan women themselves.
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  Iraqi Women: Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present

  Zed Books Limited, 2007

  Since 2003 the war in Iraq has put the situation of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. This book draws on interviews with women and other sources to challenge the myths and misconceptions which have dominated debates about Iraqi women, integrating a much needed gender perspective.
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  Iraqi Women Under Siege

  Women for Peace and Global Exchange, 2007

  Are Iraqi women less politically, economically and socially active in post-war Iraq than they were under Saddam Hussain? This paper argues that Saddam Hussein's dictatorial government and 12 years of severe sanctions reduced the relatively extensive rights and freedoms Iraqi women had gained under previous governments.
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  Iraqi Women Four Years after the Invasion

  ZNet, 2007

  Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi women have played an important role in helping communities cope with the exceedingly difficult living conditions, and in relieving the emergent humanitarian crisis.
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  The importance of Gender in European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)

  ISIS Europe, 2007

  What has changed in European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) since UN Security Council Resolution 1325, the first internationally binding agreement relating to women and security, and gender perspectives, in the year 2000?
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  Iraq: The Status of Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq's De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International Legal Standards

  Iraq Legal Development Project, 2005

  Although women in Iraq have a 25 percent quota in political representation, they still face considerable obstacles in their quest to secure their human rights. This paper assesses the degree to which Iraqi women in law (de jure) and in practice (de facto) enjoy the protection of their rights as guaranteed under international agreements.

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