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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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  Contested Terrain: Oxfam, Gender, and the Aftermath of War

  Oxfam, 2001

  The topic of gender relations in the context of conflict covers highly sensitive terrain, not only within the war-torn society, but for intervening institutions. Like other international humanitarian agencies, Oxfam Great Britain (GB) has faced difficult questions about whether its presence has sometimes done more harm than good.
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  How to Guide: [Sexual and Gender-Based Violence] SGV Programme Monitoring and Evaluation

  Health and Community Development Section, 2000

  Programmes that tackle sexual and gender-based violence (SGV) in refugee settings need to take into account a number of issues and problems unique to this context. Some of the main problems arise from the need to bring together many diverse actors who will work on the same case, such as mental and physical health care workers, the police, government workers and legal advisers/officers.
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  Millennium Development Goals, National Reports: A Look Through a Gender Lens

  United Nations Development Programme, 2003

  A scan of 13 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) country reports shows that gender equality concerns are inadequately mainstreamed. They are confined to Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal mortality) and Goal 6 (HIV/AIDS). In turn, the rights-based language often used under Goal 3 is lost under other goals where women feature in their traditional roles as mothers and as victims.
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  Sexual Orientation and Zimbabwe's New Constitution: A Case for Inclusion

  Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe, 1999

  Why is there a need for development to talk about sexual orientation? All over the world lesbians and gay men suffer sexual identity-based discrimination in legal, social and cultural arenas. The role of law in upholding 'morality' has significant consequences in the case of sexuality when legislation can impinge on the right to be free from discrimination.
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  UNSC Resolution 1325: South Asian Women's Perspectives

  International Alert, 2003

  The perspectives of South Asian women on United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325 are the focus of this regional consultation launched by the Gender and Peacebuilding Programme of International Alert. This programme was established to recognise the diversity of women's experiences during war and conflict, and support their potential to contribute to peacebuilding and reconstruction.
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  Gender and Development: An Information Kit

  2000

  This information kit is a tool for gender and development specialists/ consultants working in Egypt. It was produced by the Gender and Development (GAD) Sub-Group, the body responsible for coordinating and sharing information between the UN, bilateral donor and Egyptian NGOs on gender initiatives in Egypt. The kit is broken down into five booklets.
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  The Gender Dimensions of Poverty in Egypt

  2001

  Does poverty in Egypt have a woman's face? Is female poverty linked to their conditions in the labour market or levels of education? Are women particularly at risk in poor households? This report addresses the gender dimensions of poverty using the recent Household Expenditure, Income and Consumption Survey of 1999/2000 for Egypt.
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  The Integration of Women's Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership/L'integration des Droits des Femmes dans le Partenariat Euro-Mediterraneen

  Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2003

  The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, launched in 1995, provides a framework for political, economic and social relations between the 12 partners of the southern Mediterranean and 15 European Union member states. This report explores the dynamics that hinder and promote women's rights within this partnership and in the Middle East and North Africa.
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  Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies

  Women for Women's Rights - New Ways, Turkey, 2000

  Controlling the sexuality of women continues to be one of the most powerful tools of patriarchy in most societies. The essays in this volume show that the sexual oppression of Muslim women is not the result of an Islamic vision of sexuality, but a combination of political, social and economic inequalities practiced through the ages.

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