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    Capacity-Building in Conflict Zones: A Feminist Analysis of Humanitarian Assistance in Sri Lanka

    International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2002
    The civil war in Sri Lanka has been raging for the past twenty years and has left approximately 800,000 people internally displaced.
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    Briefing Notes on: Gender Perspectives on Disarmament

    Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, 2001
    This collection of briefing notes was launched by the United Nations (UN) Department for Disarmament Affairs (DDA), in collaboration with the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women (OSAGI). The notes are part of a broader project designed to make disarmament more effective.
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    Gender and the Peacekeeping Military: A View from Bosnian Women's Organisations

    Lawrence and Wishart, 2002
    What are the consequences for the work of women's NGOs in regions that host armed international peacekeepers? This chapter draws out observations and potential policy lessons from a study conducted with eight women's organisations located in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republic of Sprska.
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    Contested Terrain: Oxfam, Gender, and the Aftermath of War

    Oxfam, 2001
    The topic of gender relations in the context of conflict covers highly sensitive terrain, not only within the war-torn society, but for intervening institutions. Like other international humanitarian agencies, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has faced difficult questions about whether its presence has sometimes done more harm than good.
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    How to Guide: [Sexual and Gender-Based Violence] SGV Programme Monitoring and Evaluation

    Health and Community Development Section, 2000
    Programmes that tackle sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) in refugee settings need to take into account a number of issues and problems unique to this context. Some of the main problems arise from the need to bring together many diverse actors who will work on the same case, such as mental and physical health care workers, the police, government workers and legal advisers/officers.
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    Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens

    United Nations Development Programme, 2003
    A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.
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    Women, Sexuality and Social Change in the Middle East and the Maghreb

    2002
    What makes women experience sexuality in particular ways, and how can this be challenged when it contributes to inequality and abuse of human rights?
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    Le D?sir Amput?, Sexual Experience of Lebanese Women: 15 Years Later

    2002
    How do women understand their sexuality? This paper is based on a research project on the sexual experience of a group of Christian women in a traditional Lebanese society. The research looked at school (education), family (virginity and autoerotic practice) and marriage - institutions, it argues, which operate to maintain the status quo.
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    Gender and Development: An Information Kit

    2000
    This information kit is a tool for gender and development specialists/ consultants working in Egypt. It was produced by the Gender and Development (GAD) Sub-Group, the body responsible for coordinating and sharing information between the UN, bilateral donor and Egyptian NGOs on gender initiatives in Egypt. The kit is broken down into five booklets.
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    Women Building Peace, Sharing Know-How

    International Alert, 2003
    This report follows up on the global campaign Women Building Peace: From the Village Council to the Negotiating Table, launched by the Gender and Peacebuilding Programme at International Alert. The campaign aims to promote the recognition of the diversity of women's experiences during war and conflict, and their potential to contribute to peacebuilding and reconstruction.

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