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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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    BRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 13: Gender and Armed Conflict

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    Conventional understandings of war and its aftermath overlook the impact on gender relations. Gender inequality pre-dates and is often exacerbated by conflict. But this does not mean that women are always victims and men only perpetrators. Men also suffer from torture and violence.
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    Gender and Armed Conflict: Supporting Resources Collection

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    This collection of resources on gender and armed conflict sheds light on how gender inequality intersects with armed conflict and its aftermath, resulting in gender-specific disadvantage that is often overlooked.
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    Gender and Armed Conflict: Overview Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    In this report, which forms part of the Cutting Edge Pack on gender and armed conflict, the impact of armed conflict on gender relations, and the distinct ways that both women and men are affected, is explored. It highlights the gender-specific disadvantages experienced by women and men that are denied by conventional interpretations of armed conflict and post-conflict reconstruction processes.
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    Gender and Armed Conflict Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003
    Mainstream approaches to conflict and reconstruction fail to recognise how armed conflict exacerbates gender inequality. This pack explores the impact of armed conflict on gender relations, analysing the distinct ways that both women and men are affected.
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    What Women Do in War Time: Gender and Conflict in Africa

    Zed Books Limited, 1998
    What is the legacy of armed conflict on the roles and experiences of women in Africa? This collection of reports, testimonies and analyses portrays the diverse experiences of women all over Africa who have lived through civil wars, apartheid, genocide and gendered political violence such as rape.
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    The Postwar Moment: Militaries, Masculinities and International Peacekeeping

    Lawrence and Wishart, 2002
    How do social relations change as a result of peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction? This collection of essays links the experiences of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H), with that of the Netherlands, a country that deployed a large peacekeeping force in the war-stricken area.
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    The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka

    Verso Press, 2000
    In this study the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers are examined to highlight the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade. While Bangladesh is generally considered a poor, conservative Muslim country, with a long tradition of female seclusion, women here have entered factories to take their place as a prominent first generation labour force.
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    Breaking Rural Bonds Through Migration: the Failure of Development for Women in India

    Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, 1997
    Despite many five-year plans which have specifically focused on development in rural areas, the major focus and most rapid development has been in the urban centres.
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    Temporary Labour Migration of Women: Case Studies of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

    International Organization for Migration, 2000
    Official figures on female labour migration from Bangladesh grossly underestimate its actual magnitude. The government"s lack of willingness to acknowledge the reality of female migration has contributed to its inability to protect the rights of Bangladeshi women migrants. National and international laws pertaining to labour migration have not been properly enforced.

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