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  Gender and Conflict Early Warning: a Framework for Action

  Swiss Peace Foundation, 2002

  Early warning systems are playing an ever more crucial role in identifying areas at risk of violent conflict. This paper presents an initial framework on how to engender early warning systems and proposes a list of gender-sensitive early warning indicators to better ensure that previously overlooked signs of instability are taken into account.
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  Chapter 7: Monitoring and Evaluation, in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response

  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2003

  This chapter discusses monitoring and evaluation of actions designed to protect against sexual and gender-based violence against refugees and internally displaced persons. It outlines six actions that should guide the development of a monitoring or evaluation system. One step is to establish coordinated and common reporting tools.
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  Integration of The Human Rights of Women and The Gender Perspective: Violence Against Women - Mission to Occupied Palestinian Territory

  2005

  How does conflict and occupation affect Palestinian women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories? According to this report, Israeli security measures intersect with gender inequality to produce multiple forms of violence against Palestinian women.
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  Women's Health in The Village of Rihiyya: Political, Economic and Social Limitations

  2007

  Rihiyya village is located in the south of Hebron district in the West Bank. Here, in February and March 2007, Physicians for Human Rights conducted in-depth interviews with seven women who attended their mobile health clinics. The aim was to find out about the condition of women's health and to determine what health facilities were required for the area.
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  The Model Parliament for Family Law Reform: A Significant Step towards Linking Women's Issues with National Concerns

  Women Living Under Muslim Law, 2004

  The 1993 Oslo agreement resulted in the forming of the Palestinian Authority but it did not create a separate Palestinian state. This deprived many Palestinians of their fundamental right to self-determination and in the years that followed Palestinians passionately discussed every new law that was proposed.
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  Palestinian Women in Israel

  Coalition of Women for Peace, 2004

  Palestinian women living in Israel experience overlapping spheres of discrimination - politically, economically, and socially. Politically, Israel is dominated by men particularly those from the military. Although many women are dissatisfied with how political parties address women's concerns, fewer and fewer women are entering politics.
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  Occupation, Patriarchy, and the Palestinian Women's Movement. An Interview with Hanadi Loubani

  Mediterranean Women, 2003

  Hanadi Loubani is a founding member of Women for Palestine, a feminist, anti-racist Palestinian solidarity group. In this interview, she explains the background to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, how it intersects with patriarchy (the systemic structures that institutionalise male power over women), and some of the responses from the Palestinian women's movement.
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  NGO Alternative Pre-Sessional Report on Israel's Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)

  2005

  Israel is responsible under international law to implement the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Palestinian Occupied Territories (OPT). Why, then, are violations of the Convention in the OPT widespread and increasing?
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  NGO Alternative Report in Response to List of Issues and Questions with Regard to The Consideration of Periodic Reports on Israel's Implementation of The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

  Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, 2005

  Israeli authorities do not apply the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). According to this non-governmental organisation (NGO) report, this is one of the reasons for the widespread abuse of Palestinian women's rights.
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  Gender Profile of the Conflict in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2007

  This report examines the impact of the Israeli occupation of Palestine on Palestinian women. Many women have to take on increased family responsibilities because of losing male family members to exile, migration or Israeli imprisonment. They also face disruption from Israeli Defence Force security measures such as curfews, house-demolitions and land appropriations.

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