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  Towards a comprehensive approach of sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict: a practical guide for programme officers

  Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium, 2003

  The guide is a tool for programme officers to use in supporting a comprehensive approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict.
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  If we return, we will be killed: consolidation of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, Sudan

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This report documents and analyses the continuing violence by all parties to the conflict, obstacles to return and to the reversal of ethnic cleansing, the government’s efforts to end impunity and the international community’s response so far to the ongoing human rights crisis in Darfur.
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  Cash and vouchers in emergencies

  Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI, 2005

  This discussion paper examines the use of cash and vouchers to provide people with assistance in emergency situations. The literature reviewed by the paper highlights that cash and voucher approaches remain largely under-utilised in the humanitarian sector.
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  Darfur: the failure to protect

  International Crisis Group, 2005

  Two years into the crisis in Darfur, the humanitarian, security and political situation is deteriorating. Atrocity crimes are continuing, people are still dying in large numbers from malnutrition and disease and a new famine is feared.
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  Human Rights Report on Darfur May 2004-Oct 2004

  Sudan Organisation Against Torture, 2004

  This paper traces the recent history of the conflict in Sudan, examining the roles of the various independent factions and the government. The authors chronicle many of the specific skirmishes, the villages destroyed, the individuals killed, and the parties responsible, in an effort to bring to light the horrors of the ongoing civil war.
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  Persecution, intimidation, and failure of assistance in Darfur

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2004

  In the context of the civil war being waged in Darfur, Sudan, this paper seeks to convey what has happened to the health of people in Darfur based on data emerging from MSF clinics and surveys. The objective of the report is to create some understanding of the magnitude and depth of the suffering and the failure to address these problems.
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  Clinical management of rape survivors: developing protocols for use with refugees and internally displaced persons

  United Nations Population Fund, 2004

  This paper describes best practices in the clinical management of people who have been raped in emergency situations; it is intended for adaptation to each situation, taking into account national policies and practices, and availability of materials and drugs.
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  Emergency and rehabilitation programmes: does gender matter?

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005

  This factsheet examines men's and women's differing vulnerabilities in times of emergency. In wartime, men are often primary casualties, while women - in situations of armed conflicts, civil strife, or natural disasters - often lose the capacity to sustain their family’s livelihood.
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  Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters: Hyogo framework for action 2005-2015

  United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, 2005

  This paper presents the draft declaration from the United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held from 18-22 January 2005 in Kobe City, Japan.
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  The role of human rights in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami: a briefing for members of the consultative group on Indonesia

  Amnesty International, 2005

  In response to the earthquake and tsunami which devastated large parts of the province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) and surrounding areas, this paper calls on the donor community to ensure that relief and reconstruction efforts are conducted within a framework that protects and promotes human rights.

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