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    Integration of The Human Rights of Women and The Gender Perspective: Violence Against Women - Mission to Occupied Palestinian Territory

    2005
    How does conflict and occupation affect Palestinian women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories? According to this report, Israeli security measures intersect with gender inequality to produce multiple forms of violence against Palestinian women.
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    Focus. Empowering Women

    United Nations Development Programme, 2005
    The United Nations Development Programme/ Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (UNDP/PAPP) supports Palestinian women through a wide range of initiatives - reviewed in this magazine. Training on gender and women's rights and assistance in gender mainstreaming is provided by UNDP to the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Women's Affairs.
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    Occupation, Patriarchy, and the Palestinian Women's Movement. An Interview with Hanadi Loubani

    Mediterranean Women, 2003
    Hanadi Loubani is a founding member of Women for Palestine, a feminist, anti-racist Palestinian solidarity group. In this interview, she explains the background to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, how it intersects with patriarchy (the systemic structures that institutionalise male power over women), and some of the responses from the Palestinian women's movement.
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    NGO Alternative Pre-Sessional Report on Israel's Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)

    2005
    Israel is responsible under international law to implement the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the Palestinian Occupied Territories (OPT). Why, then, are violations of the Convention in the OPT widespread and increasing?
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    Gender-based Violence in Palestine : A Case Study

    Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, 2006
    A recent study by the Women's Empowerment Project in Gaza shows that 60 percent of women participants had experienced physical and verbal violence in the home. Drawing on evidence such as this, this report looks at the rising incidence of gender-based violence in Palestinian society.
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    Press Conference on the Preliminary Results: Domestic Violence Survey - 2005

    Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Gaza and West Bank, 2006
    How vulnerable are women in the Palestinian Territories to violence in the home? In this press release and set of statistical tables, preliminary findings of a 2005 domestic violence survey show that 23.3 percent of ever married women are exposed to physical violence from their husbands. 61.7 percent report psychological abuse, while 10.5 percent report sexual violence.
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    New Federal Policies Affecting Women's Equality: Reality Check

    Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, 2006
    In 2006, the new Conservative federal government of Canada made policy changes which dramatically affected women's equality provisions. The justification for the measures was that women were already treated equally to men and did not need policy support.
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    Women, Peace and Security: The Canadian NGO Experience

    Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group, 2007
    United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security calls for the participation of women in peace processes, gender training in peace operations, and the overall protection of women and girls and respect of their rights, particularly in conflict situations.
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    Gendering Canada's Refugee Process

    Status of Women Canada, 2006
    What is the impact of the Canadian 2002 Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRFP) on women? This study documents women's experiences in all stages of the refugee process and makes recommendations to government agencies.
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    Effective Practices in Sheltering Women. Leaving Violence in Intimate Relationships

    World Young Women's Christian Association, 2006
    What do Canadian women want from emergency shelters and how can shelter services be improved? This research documents the journey of 368 abused women as they entered and left emergency shelters in ten locations across Canada. The paper describes the nature of partner abuse, identifies the strategies that women adopted, and highlights what the women needed most from emergency shelters.

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