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  Focus on Gender and Peace-building: Empowerment, Gender and Peace Promotion

  2004

  This newsletter examines gender-sensitive empowerment and how it can be applied to resolve conflicts. Empowerment is a much-used expression that is deployed in different contexts. It is understood as a power-building process that aims to release people from relationships that are based on violence and dominance - including relationships between men and women - and widen their scope of action.
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  2004 World survey on the role of women in development: women and international migration

  WomenWatch, UN, 2005

  What opportunities are there for empowerment of migrant women? What are the challenges and vulnerabilities women face in the context of migration?
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  Sexual violence and its consequences among displaced persons in Darfur and Chad

  Human Rights Watch, 2005

  Rape and sexual violence against women and girls are a prominent feature of the ?ethnic cleansing? campaign carried out by government forces and militia in Darfur, Sudan. Human Rights Watch (HRW) took two research missions to camps in Chad and South Darfur in February 2005 in order to research patterns of sexual and gender-based violence and the response of local and international actors.
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  Gender-Based Violence in Populations Affected by Armed Conflict: A Field Guide for Displaced Settings

  2004

  Gender-based violence (GBV) is violence that is inflicted upon someone because of their gender - it includes rape, domestic violence, sexual slavery, intentional HIV infection and female genital mutilation. The violence and power struggles of armed conflict can exacerbate gender-based violence including in situations such as refugee camps where large numbers of people are displaced.
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  Rural Women's Access to Land and Property in Selected Countries: Progress Towards Achieving the Aims of Articles 14, 15 and 16 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

  International Land Coalition, 2004

  Women's access to land is a fundamental factor in food security. Yet women all over the world suffer under discriminatory property and inheritance laws and customary practices which restrict their rights over the land on which they live and work. Articles 15 and 16 of CEDAW state the rights of women to property and inheritance.
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  Gender equality and humanitarian assistance: a guide to the issues

  Canadian International Development Agency, 2003

  Even in emergency situations, gender needs to be taken into account by humanitarian assistance. Taking account of gender increases the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance because it allows for a better understanding of the crisis and more appropriate responses which aim to meet the needs of both women and men. This is because women and men are affected by crises in different ways.
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  Women: still the key to food and nutrition security

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  Reducing gender disparities and advancing women's empowerment promotes better food and nutrition security for all. This is the headline message from this short brief, which uses as a framework the key findings from the International Food Policy Research Institute's (IFPRI) most recent research on gender and food security.
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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

  For some years, awareness about the need for comprehensive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services for women in situations of war and armed conflict has been growing. As a result, humanitarian aid programmes are paying more and more attention to the provision of SRH services in the field, but a more holistic and integrated approach to SRH is often still lacking.
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  Impacting through Media. A Guide to Using the Media in Technical Cooperation

  2003

  This publication offers practical guidelines for employing the media in development cooperation. It is based on the experience of NGOs in using media in their information, education, communication and advocacy work, as part of The German Agency for Technical Co-operation's (GTZ) Strengthening Women's Rights project.
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  Women's International Human Rights

  BRIDGE, 2003

  At the World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in 1993, the international community officially recognised women's human rights as ?an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of universal human rights?.

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