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    Claiming rights, claiming justice: a guidebook on women human rights defenders

    Oxfam Novib, 2007
    Women human rights defenders are women who defend human rights as well as those who defend sexuality-related rights. This guidebook is designed to support the ongoing process of enhancing the understanding of, and sensitivity to, the specific issues and situations confronted by women human rights defenders.
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    Monitoring the UNGASS goals on sexual and reproductive health

    Health Systems Trust, South Africa, 2008
    This report, collated by the Health Systems Trust, contributes to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) AIDS 2008 review process. It looks at the goals set by UNGASS to improve the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa and how it hopes to achieve them.
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    I am at the lowest end of all: rural women living with HIV face human rights abuses in South Africa

    Amnesty International, 2008
    This report from Amnesty International investigates the impact of HIV and AIDS on poor rural women in South Africa, based on interviews with rural women living with HIV.
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    Arab Women's Court

    The Women's Court: The Permanent Arab Court To Resist Violence Against Women is a symbolic popular court that aims at fighting all forms of violence practiced against women in Arab societies.
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    Poverty and witch killing

    Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
    There are twice as many "witch" murders in years of extreme rainfall, in certain parts of Tanzania, than in other years. The victims are nearly all elderly women, typically killed by relatives.
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    Bring me my machine gun: Contesting patriarchy and rape culture in the wake of the Jacob Zuma rape trial

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2007
    In South Africa, only one in nine victims report rape and fewer than ten percent of reported rapes lead to a conviction. This paper draws out key lessons about rape in South Africa pointing to the endemic nature of violence in South Africa and to the impunity with which it is committed.
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    Double jeopardy: women migrants and refugees in South Africa

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2008
    In May 2008, South Africa was shaken by an outbreak of a wave of violence characterised by an intensity and fierceness previously unknown in this young democracy and reminiscent of apartheid bloodshed.
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    Enhancing the EU response to women and armed conflict

    European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2008
    Women’s multiple and diverse roles in conflict are hidden, poorly understood and, at times, consciously or unconsciously dismissed. Women are usually perceived as victims and analysis tends to examine exclusively  this idea.
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    The Vienna forum report: a way forward to combat human trafficking

    UN global initiative to fight trafficking, 2008
    Issues such as disempowerment, social exclusion and economic vulnerability are the  result of policies and practices that marginalise entire groups of people and make them  vulnerable to being trafficked. Individuals are vulnerable to trafficking not only because  of conditions in their countries of origin.
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    Forced marriage within the Lord’s Resistance Army, Uganda

    Feinstein International Center, USA, 2008
    This paper focuses on the experiences of those women and girls forcibly married within the Lords Resistence Army (LRA) in Uganda, and their attempts to reintegrate in civilian life after captivity. It documents and describes how females were often beaten, raped, impregnated, and forced to assume the role of ‘wife’ to the fighters or commanders to whom they were given.

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