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    Combatientes y Genero: Implicaciones para la Reintegracion [Combatants and Gender: Implications for Reintegration]

    World Bank, 1999
    Statistics suggest that at the very least, 30 per cent of the combatants in El Salvador's internal armed conflict were women. This paper looks at the situation of female combatants in post-conflict situations, using real-life case studies. The transition from home to combat life represents a massive shift in roles for women.
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    The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping

    Lawrence and Wishart, 2002
    How do social relations change as a result of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction? This collection of essays links the experiences of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H), with that of the Netherlands, a country that deployed a large peacekeeping force in the war-stricken area.
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    Report of the Learning Oriented Assessment of Gender Mainstreaming and Women's Empowerment Strategies in Rwanda

    United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2002
    How can women be empowered in post-conflict reconstruction? How can coordination between different actors be improved to better achieve this goal? This report on the situation in Rwanda looks at the work of donors, government and non-governmental partners, based on an assessment that took place over a 10-day period in September 2002.
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    Social Policy in an Era of Trade Intensification: A Perspective from Asian Women

    Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, 2002
    This is the second in a series of three comprehensive economic literacy packets produced by the Asia Network of the International Gender and Trade Network (IGTN). The IGTN aims to engage with the global women's movement to raise awareness of the relationship between gender relations and macroeonomic and trade polices.
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    Women, Peace and Security

    United Nations, 2002
    Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) mandated the Secretary-General to carry out a study on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls, the role of women in peace-building and the gender dimensions of peace processes and conflict resolution.
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    "Fifty Voices are Better than One": Combating Social Exclusion and Gender Stereotyping in Gellideg, in the South Wales Valleys

    Oxfam, 2003
    This report tells the story of how the people of Gellideg - a housing estate in Wales - came together to take steps to combat social exclusion and gender stereotyping. Frustrated by the lack of opportunities available to their children, six local women formed the Gellideg Foundation Group.
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    Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals

    Canadian International Development Agency, 2003
    At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, 189 governments pledged collective responsibility to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first being to halve world poverty by 2015, and the third to "Promote gender equality and empower women". This book provides evidence as to why promoting gender equality is essential for halving world poverty and realising all eight MDGs.
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    Muslim Feminism and Feminist Movement: Central Asia

    Global Vision Publishing House, 2002
    The aim of this book is to explore the origin and development of Muslim feminism and feminist movements in Central Asian countries - Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Soviet Central Asia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
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    Gender, Islam, Nationalism and the State in Aceh: the Paradox of Power, Co-optation and Resistance

    Routledge, 2002
    Aceh is now in a state of armed rebellion against the Indonesian government. The book analyses how female agency is constituted in Aceh, in a complex interplay of indigenous female power, Islamic belief and practices, state terror, and political violence.
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    Key Issues on Gender and HIV/AIDS in China

    BRIDGE, 2003
    Inequality, including gender inequality has fuelled the HIV/AIDS epidemic globally. The UNIFEM publication 'Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS pandemic' identifies how gender discrimination and inequality have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS, and how meeting CEDAW commitments to end gender inequality can help turn the HIV/AIDS tide.

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