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    Justice for women: seeking accountability for sexual crimes in post-conflict situations

    Fride, 2008
    This paper discusses the key points of debate discussed at a  meeting held to explore justice for women. It also highlights proposals relating to the pending challenges of the issue.
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    Double jeopardy: women migrants and refugees in South Africa

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2008
    In May 2008, South Africa was shaken by an outbreak of a wave of violence characterised by an intensity and fierceness previously unknown in this young democracy and reminiscent of apartheid bloodshed.
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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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    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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    Women on the run: female survivors of torture amongst Zimbabwean asylum seekers and refugees in South Africa

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006
    Large numbers of Zimbabwean women are fleeing their homes and even their country to avoid violence. This report was written to coincide with South Africa's 'Sixteen days on gender activism'. It shows that a significant proportion of the women who have fled Zimbabwe for South Africa have experienced state torture.
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    Gender, Environment, Conflict - Special Issue Newsletter, Civilian Crisis Prevention - Environment and Natural Resources 2008

    Environment Conflict and Cooperation, 2007
    The linkages between gender, environment and conflict have so far not been studied in detail. Environmental changes and conflicts impact men and women differently because of their gender roles and socio-cultural situation. More often than not, environmental degradation and the consequences of climate change or natural disasters reinforce existing gender inequalities.
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    Gender and security sector reform toolkit

    United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2008
    Security sector reform (SSR) opens a window of opportunity to transform security policies, institutions and programmes by integrating gender issues. The Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit is an initial response to the need for more information and analysis on gender and SSR processes.
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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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