Search

Searching with a thematic focus on

Showing 331-340 of 778 results

Pages

• Document

  Monitoring Report on Femicide in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua and Panama

  Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru, 2007

  Meso-america (the region extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua) and the Caribbean have seen the systematic killing of increasing numbers of women for gender related reasons. This social phenomenon of femicide has presented a new challenge for the feminist movement.
• Document

  Monitoring Report on Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru

  Comité de América Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer / Latin America and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of the Women Rights, Peru, 2007

  Sexual violence in the Latin American region has been used as state policy and as a strategy for war, aimed at as many victims as possible, in order to create terror amongst the population. CLADEM documents and analyses this phenomena in the Latin American context.
• Document

  The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children: A Critical Review of Progress Made and Obstacles Encountered in Increasing Protection for War-affected Children

  United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2000

  August 1996 marked the release of the expert report ' The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children' prepared by Graca Machel, expert of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. This report broke new ground by using the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to provide the first ever comprehensive human rights assessment of war-affected children.
• Document

  La protection des droits des femmes et des enfants victimes de violence domestique dans la législation bulgare

  Genre en Action, 2005

  "It was only in 1993 that domestic violence appeared on the agenda of the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Vienna. Thanks to the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the Bulgarian Parliament adopted legislation on domestic violence in March 2005, finally highlighting domestic violence as a legitimate social concern rather than a matter of culture.
• Document

  Risking Rape to Reach a Toilet: Women’s Experiences of the Slums of Nairobi, Kenya (in English, Swahili, French)

  Amnesty International, 2010

  Women and girls living in the informal settlements and slums of Nairobi live their daily lives under constant threat of violence: in their own homes, at work, and in public spaces. Sanitation facilities inside slums are few and far between and residents are forced to walk through unsafe areas to reach the nearest communal facilities.
• Document

  The Status of Gender Based Violence and Related Services in Four Woredas (Woredas surrounding Bahir Dar town, Burayu woreda, Bako woreda and Gulele Sub-city of Addis Ababa)

  CARE Ethiopia, 2008

  Gender based violence continues to be a significant and serious human rights and public health issue in Ethiopia.
• Document

  Gender and Rape Survivors' Access to Legal Justice in South Africa

  Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, 2010

  How does gender inequality within the South African justice system affect rape survivors’ access to legal justice? Is the law able to protect women and bring perpetrators to justice? Rape is widespread in South Africa where gender inequality is rife.
• Document

  Comprehensive Responses to Gender Based Violence in Low-Resource Settings: Lessons Learned from Implementation

  Population Council, Zambia, 2010

  Over the past decade, many African countries have begun to recognise the importance of preventing gender based violence and responding to the needs of survivors. But due to the absence of strong, regionally-relevant evidence, national programs have tended to adopt strategies that have worked in Europe and North America.
• Document

  Her Stories, Leurs Histoires (in English and French)

  ActionAid International, 2010

  How have women struggled to achieve peace and dignity in the war-torn areas of Africa? This collection of stories demonstrates how the African woman, faced by numerous challenges, still has the strength to challenge the power relations and thinking that engender war and conflict.
• Document

  Violence against women and girls: a compendium of monitoring and evaluation indicators

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2008

  Violence against women and girls (VAW/G) is increasingly being seen as a critical issue to be addressed in the international arena. However, the dearth of rigorous evaluations of VAW initiatives has resulted in a lack of data to support recommendations for best practices in the field. In particular, many programmes lack quality systems designed to monitor and evaluate their progress.

Pages