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    Gender equality in Burundi: Why does support not extend to women's right to inherit land?

    Afrobarometer, 2015
    With 27,834 km² of surface area and a population of 10.5 million, Burundi’s population density is seven times that of Tanzania and second only to Rwanda’s on the African mainland (World Bank, 2014). Its population grows at an annual rate of 2.4%, and more than 90% of the population lives primarily on agriculture.
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    Topic Guide: anticipating and responding to shocks: livelihoods and humanitarian responses

    Evidence on Demand, 2015
    Development actors have often been accused of paying too little attention to crises. At the same time, those providing emergency relief, even when using the language of ‘livelihoods’, have tended to focus their attention on meeting immediate needs and have not always tried to understand the bigger picture demanded by livelihoods approaches.
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    Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)

    The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) with National Sections covering every continent, an International Secretariat bas
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    Implementing UNSC Resolution 1325 in Brazil: surmounting challenges and promoting equality

    Igarape Institute, 2015
    The United Nations High Level Panel on Peace Operations (HLP) called on member states to enhance their efforts to promote women in peace support operations. While elevated as a priority, there is comparatively limited empirical research about the involvement of female troops in peacekeeping missions. Women are still underrepresented in peace operations around the world.
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    Breaking the silence: hope for a new life

    United Nations Population Fund, 2015
    More than four years of war have ravaged Syrian families and communities, Syrian women and girls are living through the most damaging conflict in the region’s recent history. Female refugees are sometimes subjected to sexual violence, and suffer from harassment and abuse. Delivering their children can be dangerous.
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    Women, weapons, and war: a gendered critique of multilateral instruments

    2015
    This paper considers synergies and contradictions related to gender and women in the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), the UN Programme of Action on trade in small arms and light weapons (UNPoA), a number of UN Security Council, UN Human Rights Council, and UN General Assembly resolutions, and other relevant treaties, declarations, and commitments, looking at the language they contain.
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    ‘They call me warrior’: the legacy of conflict and the struggle to end sexual and gender-based violence in Sierra Leone

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Sierra Leone has been the focus of considerable public and policy attention because of the recent Ebola epidemic and, before that, the decade-long civil war, with multiple forms of violence permeating people’s lives.
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    Gender-based violence in conflict and displacement: qualitative findings from displaced women in Colombia

    Conflict and health, 2014
    Gender-based violence (GBV) is prevalent among, though not specific to, conflict affected populations and related to multifarious levels of vulnerability of conflict and displacement. Colombia has been marked with decades of conflict, with an estimated 5.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) and ongoing violence.
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    Dimensions of gender-based violence against Syrian refugees in Lebanon

    Forced Migration Review, 2013
    In times of conflict everyone is affected by violence; however, women and girls in particular are more at risk of facing different forms of violence including sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) due to the lack of social protection and lack of safe access to services.
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    Women and girls in the Syria crisis: UNFPA response, facts and figures

    United Nations Population Fund, 2015
    For the United Nations, Syria is the biggest humanitarian crisis today. Among the affected population in Syria and refugees in the region, four million women and girls of reproductive age need special attention. This includes nearly half a million pregnant women in Syria in addition to the estimated 70,000 currently pregnant refugee women from Syria.

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