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  Promising democracy, imposing theocracy: gender-based violence and the US war on Iraq

  MADRE, 2007

  What is the relationship between Iraq's mounting civilian death toll and the ongoing increase in violence against women? This report explores the links between gender-based violence and the conflict that has ensued since the United States-led invasion. The paper argues that the Bush administration has traded women's rights for co-operation with the fundamentalists that it has empowered.
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  Room to maneuver : lessons from gender mainstreaming in the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations

  Women's Refugee Commission, 2007

  The United Nations is mandated to mainstream gender issues and concerns through its agencies and operations. An essential part of this effort must be to focus on the impact of gender mainstreaming on the lives of women, girls, boys and men affected by armed conflict.
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  Psychosocial challenges and interventions for women affected by conflict

  Women for Women International, 2006

  The articles in this journal edition highlight the psychological and social difficulties encountered by conflict-affected women. The general hardship and trauma of conflict is often compounded further by gender-based violence, which takes a heavy toll on women's mental health.
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  Palestinian women: is there a unitary conception of rights?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2006

  How are women's rights understood by ?ordinary? Palestinian women? This paper, based on fieldwork conducted in two villages in the Ramallah district, reports on ?ordinary? Palestinian women's views on what women's rights are and how they perceive their own rights situation. The term ?ordinary? in this respect refers to rural women outside of political organisations, whether secular or religious.
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  Women, Men, and Gun Violence: Options for Action

  Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Switzerland, 2005

  Adopting a gender perspective of how gun violence is viewed and perceived is crucial to designing and implementing strategies to reduce the widespread human security impacts it produces. We can no longer afford to remain in the dark about the complexities of how men and women view, use, and misuse guns, and how those attitudes and behaviours translate into risks and vulnerabilities.
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  Securing Equality, Engendering Peace: A Guide to Policy and Planning on Women, Peace and Security

  2006

  This new manual written by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW) focuses on how to create a successful action plan to fully implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). It contains chapters on good practice, specific recommendations and a practical six-step model process.
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  Global Policy on Women, Peace and Security in Practice: National and Regional Consultations on Resolution 1325

  International Alert, 2002

  The Women Building Peace Campaign (WBP) within International Alert has conducted consultations in Uganda, Nepal and the Southern Caucasus to identify the potential for implementing the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security at a national and regional level.
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  Reclaiming Women's Space at the Peace Table: the Peacebuilding Cyberdialogue as a Model of Using ICTs for Peacebuilding

  GenderIT, 2006

  In 2005 the International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) and Isis Women's International Cross-Cultural Exchange (WICCE) collaborated to bring together women peacebuilders from 40 women's organizations in Nepal, the Philippines, Timor Leste, Uganda and Zimbabwe to participate in the 'Peacebuilding Cyberdialogue' - a 'real time global town hall meeting' using Internet chat with voice and video / visu
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  Gender Checklist for Liberia

  2003

  The United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1509, passed in 2003, reaffirms the importance of a gender perspective in peacekeeping operations and post-conflict peace building, in accordance with UNSCR 1325 on women and peace and security.
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  HIV/AIDS as a Human Security Issue: a Gender Perspective

  2000

  The United Nations Security Council recently adopted resolution 1308 which specifically links the spread of AIDS to the maintenance of global peace and security. AIDS is a human security issue because it destabilises society by threatening socioeconomic development, and even threatens human survival in areas such as Botswana where 35% of the adult population is HIV positive.

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