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  Ensuring a gender perspective in education in emergencies

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2006

  This brief article discusses the issues in incorporating a gender perspective in education planning in emergencies.
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  Securing the peace: guiding the international community towards women’s effective participation throughout peace processes

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2005

  This report argues that it is essential to ensure the active involvement of women and the articulation of gender equality from the earliest stages of peace talks through to implementation and monitoring of agreements.The authors outline ways in which women's voices can be amplified and an environment constructed to enable such a dialogue.
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  Conflict prevention and transformation: women’s vital contributions

  Women Waging Peace, Cambridge and Washington, 2005

  This conference report makes the case for the inclusion of women and gender perspectives in peace processes and offers practical recommendations, guidelines, and models to assist and encourage policymakers to include women and gender perspectives in their program designs.Women Waging Peace and the United Nations Foundation hosted a consultation on the role of women in conflict prevention in 200
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  Women in an insecure world: violence against women: facts, figures and analysis

  Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2005

  This book brings together a comprehensive list of the facts and figures regarding violence against women in daily life, during war and conflict, and in post-conflict situations.
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  Lessons from gender-focused international aid in post-conflict Afghanistan…learned?

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005

  This report discusses the problems arising from gender-based international aid in post-conflict Afghanistan. It highlights the increasing disappointment expressed by Afghans with the aid community, particularly in relation to women’s issues.
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  Caught in the storm: the impact of natural disasters on women

  Global Fund for Women, 2005

  This short special report by the Global Fund for Women considers the projects they have provided with grants and worked in partnership with after a number of natural disasters, including the 2004 tsunamis, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and Hurricanes Stan and Mitch.
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  Getting it right, doing it right: gender and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2004

  This handbook is aimed at those planning and executing disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR).
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  Rising up in response: women's rights activism in conflict

  Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, 2005

  This downloadable book considers the study of women’s rights activists who respond to conflict or crises in their own countries.
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  Combating violence against refugee women is a top priority, announces UN High Commissioner for Refugees

  Eldis News Weblog, 2005

  This commentary from an Eldis Editor looks at the emerging incidences of domestic violence in relief camps in Pakistan. Gender based violence is an on-going concern in Pakistan - what should be done to address the concerns of vulnerability to violence which women face in extreme situations, such as in refugee or relief camps?
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  Women's participation in disaster relief and recovery

  Population Council, USA, 2005

  This article explores the gender-differentiated effects of natural disasters. It aims to fill a gap in understanding issues such as women's losses relative to men's, how women's work time and conditions change, both in terms of care-giving and income-generating work, or how disaster-related aid and entitlement programmes include or marginalise affected women.

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