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- Documenting Sexual Violence in Conflict: Data and Methods - An Annotated Bibliography
This bibliography is an effort to compile and analyse available data on sexual violence in conflict and to publish and publicise existing data on sexual violence in conflict to advocate for increased prevention, protection and assistance activities.
- 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, 2004 Nov 25- Dec 10. Bibliography and resource list
ﾠThe Center for Women's Global Leadership (Global Center) develops and facilitates women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide. The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence has become an annual event in many towns, states and regions. Women's human rights activists have used this 16-day period to create a solidarity movement that raises awareness around gender-based violence, works to ensure better protection for survivors of violence, and calls for its elimination. Links and resources in this bibliography are listed.
- 2006 Campaign: 16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women- Information Packet (Resource Kit)
Since 1991, the 16 Days campaign has worked to increase the visibility of violence against women as a human rights violation. This multi-faceted campaign involves governments, women activists, journalists, UN agencies and numerous NGOs throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to enhance prevention efforts, end impunity and use international human rights instruments to address VAW as a human rights violation, a public health crisis and a threat to human security and development. This information packet has been produced in a collaborative effort by a number of organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is available in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
- Access to Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence
This report, prepared a year after the joint communique was issued, assesses the extant to which the Government of the Sudan has lived up to its commitments with regard to investigating and punishing sexual violence in Darfur, and in bringing such violence to an end.
- Action on Gender Based Violence and HIV/AIDS: Bringing Together Research, Policy, Progamming and Advocacy
In response to the human rights and public health crises posed by both the HIV pandemic and the unabating levels of gender-based violence (GBV), policy makers, activists and programmers at international, regional and national levels have in recent years bolstered attention to the conceptual and methodological intersections of work in these areas. The growing commitment to work on GBV (primarily in relation to violence against women) and HIV has resulted in an increased number of policy and programmatic efforts. However, the experiences, lessons learned, and challenges in conceptualizing designing, implementing, and evaluating these strategies have not been adequately explored. The value and impact of applying different conceptual frameworks to work at the intersection of these issues, in particular human rights and sexuality, suggests that more knowledge is needed as to the best ways of working at the intersections of GBV and HIV/AIDS.
- Addressing Gender in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations in the Philippines
The paper presents the findings and recommendations of the review undertaken to identify how gender is addressed in various post-conflict situations in Philippines. Based on the findings of the review the paper has several key recommendations for addressing gender in conflict and post-conflict situations in the Philippines.
- Addressing Sexual Violence
Sexual violence occurs at every stage of a conflict and may increase in the wake of a natural disaster. The victims are usually women and adolescents, who have often been separated from their families and communities.
- Addressing Violence Against Women: Piloting and Programming
This report provides highlights of a September 2003 consultation in Rome with UNFPA and many of its partners. It provides lessons learned from ten pilot projects that used a programme guide created by UNFPA to help health care providers address gender-based violence. It also summarizes presentations from ten experts on gender-based violence and recommendations from the three working groups.
- Adverse Health and Social Outcomes of Sexual Coercion: Experiences of Young Women in Developing Countries, The
Studies in diverse settings in Africa, Asia and Latin America reveal that forced sexual initiation and experiences are not uncommon in all these settings. More over, a number of these women suffer repeated episodes of sexual violence and a considerable number also report incidences of childhood abuse.
- Afghanistan: Humanity Denied - Systematic Violations of Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Based on interviews with refugees in Pakistan conducted shortly before the September 11 attacks in the United States, this report focuses on abuses of women's human rights in Afghanistan. It provides background information, a discussion of international law as well as personal accounts
- Agreement between Husband and Wife Reports of Domestic Violence: Evidence from Poor Refugee Communities in Lebanon
This paper compares husband and wife reports of wife-beating using household survey data collected from poor Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon.
- AlertNet
Offers a combination of Reuters news and reports from humanitarian relief NGOs.
- Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AIs vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
- Annotated Bibliography of Reports on Reproductive Health on the Thai-Burma Border
- Annotated bibliography on violence against women: A health and human rights concern
- Anti-Slavery International
Objective is to end slavery throughout the world, including trafficking of men, women and children. Anti-Slavery's work is divided among three teams: Programme, communication and information.
- Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
APWLD is an independent, non-government, non-profit organization situated in Thailand. It is committed to enabling women to use law as an instrument of social change for equality, justice and development. It has a consultative status at the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).
- Association for Women's Rights in Development
The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. Our goal is to cause policy, institutional and individual change that will improve the lives of women and girls everywhere.
- Association of the Widows of the Genocide (Association des Veuves du Genocide)
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda led to the violent death of an estimated one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus in just 100 days. Sadly the misery continues for thousands who live in untold hardship. AVEGA-AGAHOZO was formed to address the needs of these people, including: widows, orphans, children who have become the heads of household, those who have lost some or all of their children, the elderly, and the handicapped. Website also available in French.
- Background on the international criminal court
The International Criminal Court will be a permanent court to investigate and bring to justice individuals who commit the most serious crimes - namely: genocide; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. The ICC is meant to complement national legal structures, and will act only when the national systems are either unwilling or genuinely unable to proceed. This website provides a comprehensive description of the ICC.
- Between Hope and Fear Intimidation and Attacks against Women in Public Life in Afghanistan
HRW interviewed dozens of potential women candidates. Many expected powerful political parties to front women candidates who will not be able to participate independently or equally. Most women said they expected to face threats and harassment from regional warlords and their supporters if they run for parliament. These same warlords have blocked womens political participation consistently in the past, for example, in the Emergency and Constitutional Loya Jirgas.
- Beyond Gender: Illegal Laws, Ethnicity, Armed Conflicts and Trafficking - Presentation at the 13th Workshop of the Framework on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region Beijing, Peoples Republic of C
This presentation of the ACHR at the 13th Workshop of the Framework on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region covers the following topics: - Introduction. - How the national laws contribute to trafficking? - Discriminatory nationality law, restriction on freedom of movement and risks of trafficking in Thailand. - Restrictions on internal migration and risks of trafficking in China. - Ethnicity, armed conflicts and trafficking. - Lack of law enforcement strategy - Conclusion and recommendations
- Bibliography on Gender and Conflict
Annotated bibliography with a broad range of texts that also includes references for gender-based violence in the context of conflict.
- Born to Risk: Violence against Girls in Africa
This report aims to enrich work on violence against children in Africa and to provide a framework for action. It provides strong foundations for future action by exploring the concept of violence and identifying what makes African girls especially vulnerable to various forms of violence.
- Bridge Development-Gender
BRIDGE works on gender and development issues, and their website includes very interesting reports on issues such as: gender and health, gender in conflicts and emergencies, gender and poverty and gender concepts and methodologies. They also have a number of bibliographies on gender-related topics. This site has been set up as a virtual bookcase where you can download copies of all BRIDGE publications.
- Broken Bodies, Broken Dreams: Violence against Women Exposed
The book offers a powerful testimony, through photographs and text, of the different types of violence that define the everyday existence of countless women and girls. It examines the nature of this violence through the cycle of women's lives, including discrimination at birth and at school, domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking, servitude and abusive cultural pratices.
- Brussels Call to Action to Address Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond
This is the representatives of governments, the European Commission, civil society and the United Nations' "Call to Action" from the recent symposium on gender-based violence that took place in Brussels from 21 to 23 June 2006 to strengthen their shared commitment and action to prevent and respond to sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations.
- Burqa Politics: The Plights of Women in Afghanistan
Visions of Afghan women throwing off their burqas in the name of freedom helped fuel the Bush administration's case for war against Afghanistan. Just how free are women in today's Afghanistan? Was removing their burqas ever really the issue?
- Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
CGRS provides legal expertise and resources to attorneys representing women asylum-seekers fleeing gender related harm, at both the practice and policy levels, and seeks to track decisions in these cases. CGRS also works to coordinate legal and public policy advocacy efforts through domestic and international networking, and engages in public education efforts in order to educate decision makers and the public and contribute to the formulation of national and international policy and practice.
- Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE)
Section on violence against women and links to publications.
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- Center for Women's Global Leadership
Affiliated with Rutgers University, this site includes links to publications, news, articles, resources and other NGOs who help to develop and facilitate women's leadership, promotion of women's rights, and social justice.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) -- Sexually transmitted diseases facts and information
Resources, links, and prevention information on sexually transmitted diseases, specifically general information on gonorrhea, bacterial vaginosis (BV), HIV/AIDS and STDs, chlamydia, syphilis, genital herpes (herpes simplex virus, or HSV), trichomoniasis, genital warts (human papillomavirus, or HPV).
- Change, Choice and Power: Young Women, Livelihoods and HIV Prevention
The urgency of addressing the vulnerability of young women and adolescent girls of all backgrounds, but particularly the poor, cannot be over stated. Innovative, far-reaching and rapid responses are needed to impact whole generations so that the Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty can be within reach. This paper sets out to explore the relationship between economic independence, vulnerability to HIV infection, the level of sexual and reproductive health among women and adolescent girls, and gender-based violence.
- Coalition for Women's Human Rights in Conflict Situations
The main focus of the Coalitions work is to promote the adequate prosecution of perpetrators of crimes of gender violence in transitional justice systems based in Africa, in order to create precedents that recognise violence against women in conflict situations and help find ways to obtain justice for women survivors of sexual violence.
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), The
An alliance of nonprofit service providers, grassroots advocacy groups and activists dedicated to providing human services and human rights advocacy to victims of modern-day slavery. CAST was founded in 1998 in the aftermath of the El Monte sweatshop case. CAST's mission is to assist persons trafficked for the purpose of forced labor and slavery-like practices and to work toward ending all instances of such human rights violations. CAST is the only organization of its kind in the United States.
- Combating Gender-based Violence: A Key to Achieving the MDGS
This advocacy kit outlines the problem of gender-based violence, elaborates its linkages to poverty, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and conflict, and discusses its impact on a nation's development.The goal is to mobilize leadership at the national, regional and global levels to make violence unacceptable. Link is to English, Portugese and French versions.
- Commission on the Status of Women- Follow-up to Beijing and Beijing +5
The Commission on the Status of Women is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women. It is the principal global policy-making body. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and advancement of women worldwide.
- Compendium of Research on Violence against Women, 1993-2006
This compilation of NIJ-funded research includes a table of contents, index, and descriptions of projects available through the VAW&FV program.
- Conflict Prevention and Early Warning
Preventive measures have the potential to avert disputes before they erupt into violent confrontations. The Security Council has called on UN organs and agencies to develop and implement appropriate preventive strategies, by enhancing early warning capacity and drawing information from a variety of sources given the multiple factors that contribute to conflict. The Security Council's resolution on women and peace and security underscored the need for such measures to support local women's peace initiatives for conflict resolution, and to increase women's participation, full involvement and decision-making roles in all preventive measures. Effective preventive strategies must consider the primary targets of war. The threats to civilians, and especially women in conflict situations, have underscored the need to incorporate gender analysis into early warning activities and the opportunity for preventive measures to strengthen women's protection. Such steps must be based upon timely and accurate knowledge of facts, an understanding of developments and global trends, and the economic, social and political causes of the conflicts.
- Consequences of Violence against Women (Scientific American), The
Excellent links to other sources within the text of this article
- Constructions of Masculinities and Violence aganist Women
In Bangladesh sexual violence within marriage is often seen as a shameful but tolerated ill. Although anger about violence against women (VAW) is profound among many Bangladeshi women, numerous barriers prevent them from speaking out against gender-based violence. Few public subsidies or donor funds have been allocated to support battered wives in Bangladesh, and no services have been set up to reach out to violent husbands. This paper gives a voice to the women and men who are suffering, perpetrating or witnessing gender-based violence in Bangladesh by documenting the case histories of women victims of violence and of men who are known to be violent, mostly with their wives. It shows how violence between marital partners erupts; how problems are dealt with, resolved, or left unresolved; and looks at the consequences such situations entail for the women and their families
- CURRENTS Newsletter
Bimonthly electronic news bulletin of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) that provides up-to-date information briefs on UNIFEM initiatives, successes, events, projects and activities worldwide. Can connect directly to copies of the newsletter, or sign up to receive them via email.
- Darfur - Assault on Survival: A Call for Security, Justice and Restitution
In May 2004, PHR collected eyewitness testimony from dozens of Darfurian refugees in Chad and found ample evidence of an organized attempt to destroy non-Arab groups. PHR called the actions of the perpetrators genocide, and identified indicators of genocide, including consistent patterns of targeting non-Arabs, destruction of villages, pursuing non-Arabs with intent to make them leave their villages, raping non-Arab women, and forcing everyone out of their villages into hostile terrain. PHR returned to the Chad/Sudan border in 2005, compiling information about the lives of the affected before the attacks, about the attacks themselves the scale and scope of destruction, the theft and torching of property and possessions and about their current existence in the refugee camps.
- Development of the Legal Protection against Sexual Violence in Armed Conflicts - Advantages and Disadvantages, The
Despite the fact that it is so widespread, sexual violence has been vastly underreported and the victims have suffered in silence. It is not until recently that the silence has began to break during the last years and there is now an emerging jurisprudence in international law, establishing that rape in armed conflicts constitutes a serious violation of human rights and humanitarian law.
- Disarming Masculinities
If one considers gender, in this case masculinity, to be socially constructed, and one additionally wants to further the cause of disarmament, it becomes evident that this bond between men and weapons and how this is linked with violent notions of masculinity need to be investigated.
- Documenting Rape as a War Crime
Interview tips, sample questions, and other sources of information. Written by the Women's Rights Division and Europe and Central Asia Division.
- Documenting Women's Rights Violations by Non-State Actors
This manual aims to provide tools to help further the work of activists particularly those investigating and addressing violence against women perpetrated by non-state actors. It is especially designed for activists without legal backgrounds, with the aim of directing them towards legal definitions and human rights mechanisms that may help them in their efforts to ensure that states fully meet their obligation to protect.
- ECPAT International
This website is of a global network that works to protect children against commercial sexual exploitation. Includes contact information for ECPAT network members in many different countries, as well as various publications on preventing the sexual exploitation of children. English, French and Spanish.
- Eldis Gender Resource Guide
Database with publications, resource guides, country studies, news and events in development, policy, practice and research.
- Emergency contraception among refugees and the displaced
This paper describes the experience of one international relief organization, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), in introducing EC into its worldwide reproductive health program. A recent IRC survey found that EC is available in 4 out of 14 settings where it provides reproductive health services. A case study from Tanzania demonstrates the modes of delivery, the demand for EC by women who have experienced sexual violence, and the community responses to this method of contraception. More information, education, and communication directed at refugee communities; more donor support for supplies; and institutional commitment to train staff are needed to expand refugee access to EC.
- Emergency Obstetric Care -- Checklist for Planners
Emergency obstetric care is the cornerstone of UNFPA's efforts to improve pregnancy outcomes. This six-panel checklist is designed to help programme planners and managers monitor elements that are critical to providing a high quality of emergency obstetric care. Available in English, French and Spanish.
- Ending violence against women and girls: Protecting human rights: Good practices for development cooperation
This report argues that the root causes of violence against women are dominant gender norms and the unequal power balances between men and women. The publication descibes the international and regional human rights framework related to gender-base violence and demonstates the disasterous impact of violence against women and girls on human development and how this directly relates to more of the MGDs.
- Ending Violence Against Women: A Challenge for Development and Humanitarian Work
In this book addressing violence against women, development workers go to the heart of how members of communities relate to one another and how they are able to shape their own lives. The first section of the book examines the many different definitions of violence against woman and offers theories about why it happens in all societies across the world. It discusses the current momentum around the issue and asks why development organizations have been slow to take up the struggle to end violence against woman. The second section focuses on strategies to counter violence against women and support the survivors. Case studies come from times of peace and times of armed conflict. Sections suggest strategies for transforming attitudes and beliefs in different societies that condone such violence, for supporting individual survivors, and to ensure that governments and NGOs fulfil their duty to protect woman.
- Ending Violence against Women: On-line Exhibition
This interactive, multimedia online exhibit tells the stories of women throughout the world in their battle to bring equality and stop violence to women, as well as the efforts of the UNFPA and other like-minded NGOs in these endeavors.
- EngenderHealth
Nonprofit organization (formerly AVSC International) working internationally and in the United States to support and strengthen health care services, particularly those needed by women. Work to improve the quality of maternity services delivered at health facilities and to integrate awareness of sexually transmitted infections including HIV/AIDS, as well as diagnosis and, where possible, treatment of these infections into existing services. Site includes links, publications, and online/offline resources.
- Enhanced Committments to Women to Ensure Food Security (Policy Issues)
- Equality Now
Equality Now works to end violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world through the mobilization of public pressure. Issues of concern to Equality Now include: Rape, Domestic violence, Reproductive rights, Trafficking, Female genital mutilation, Political participation, and Gender Discrimination. Website is available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
- FACES: Women as Partners in Peace and Security
The document aims to show the human face of Security Council resolution 1325, featuring profiles of women from all parts of the world who are working for international peace and security - as police officers, HIV/AIDS educators, peace-builders, election workers, humanitarian workers and more.
- Family Care International
FCI seeks to ensure that women and adolescents have access to the high-quality information and services they need to improve their sexual and reproductive health, experience safe pregnancy and childbirth, and avoid unwanted pregnancy and HIV infection.
- Feinstein International Center (Tufts University)
The Feinstein International Center strives to improve the lives and livelihoods of communities caught up in complex emergencies, war, and other crises. The Center's research--on the politics and policy of aiding the vulnerable, on protection and rights in crisis situations, and on the restoration of lives and livelihoods--feeds into both its teaching and its long-term partnerships with humanitarian and human rights agencies. Through publications, seminars, and confidential evidence-based briefings, the Feinstein International Center seeks to influence the making and application of policy in the countries affected by crises and in those states in a position to influence such crises.
- Female Genital Cutting in the Demographic and Health Surveys: A Comparative Study (1990-2002)
The MEASURE DHS project has collected data on female genital cutting in 17 African countries and Yemen. In some countries, two surveys with FGC data have been conducted.
- Female Genital Mutilation: Policy Guidelines for Nurses and Midwives
- Feminists under Fire: Exchanges across War Zones
- Femnet- The African Women's Development and Communication Network
FEMNET seeks to facilitate and coordinate the sharing of experiences, ideas, information, and strategies for human rights promotion among African women's organisations through networking, communication, capacity-building and advocacy at the regional and international levels. The website offers tools and resources on GBV and men's contributions to ending GBV
- Finding Trees in the Desert: Firewood Collection and Alternatives in Darfur
Reducing the need for displaced women and girls to put themselves at risk of assault during firewood collection is an extremely complex task, with no single solution. Only a variety of interventions, undertaken simultaneously and in several different sectors, can hope to solve the problem. Fuel-effecient stove programs should be promoted by all protection actors- in a coordinated manner- in order to create conditions in which women cam use less firewood. At the same time , the AU must expand its patrols to protect women and girls on the occaisons that they do collect wood, and UN agencies and NGOs must work to help increase the opportunity of IDP women to earn income through soething other than selling firewood.
- FMO Thematic Guide: Gender and Forced Migration
- Forced Migration Portal Project
Contains an excellent database of web-based resources on forced migration.
- Forced Migration Review (FMR)
The in-house journal of the Refugee Studies Centre, FMR provides a forum for debate on the most immediate issues facing refugees and internally displaced people and those working with them. Articles, research abstracts, conference reports and news items, present practice-oriented findings and analyze policy issues. FMR enables academics, practitioners, refugees and IDPs to share information and experience, present recommendations and set out guidelines for best practice.
- Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
The Franois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights. The Center combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and policy development.
- Gender and Armed Conflict
The impacts of armed conflict on gender relations are significant. Forced displacement and genderbased violence (GBV) are two examples of impacts that are not inevitable outcomes of armed conflict, but rather are deliberate strategies of war that destabilise families and communities. Physical and sexual violence, particularly towards women and children, occur with greater regularity during and after armed conflict. Women experience rape and forced pregnancy, forced sex work and sexual slavery, often at the hands of peacekeepers, police or occupying forces, as occurred in Bosnia. Although men are the primary perpetrators of violence towards women and children, it is important to note that men too are subject to victimisation and violence, including sexualised violence.
- Gender and Conflcit Early Warning: A Framework for Action
The deliberate victimisation of women during recent wars has focused attention on the different impacts of internal and transnational conflicts on men and women. At the same time, the contribution of women and womens organisations to conflict resolution, management and peace building is also gaining wider recognition. Parallel to this, early warning systems are playing an ever more crucial role in the international arena, in identifying areas at risk of violent conflict. The development of their multi-method approaches has brought early warning analysis closer to anticipating rather than predicting crises that could lead to large-scale humanitarian disasters. Such analysis now increasingly concentrates on the grassroots level, working with major stakeholders and cooperating with local partners.
- Gender and Disaster Sourcebook, The
The Gender and Disaster Sourcebook is a one-stop user-friendly electronic guide to help answer these questions. The outcome of a year-long project to consolidate and organize English-language materials in the field, the Sourcebook is a work in progress to which we hope you will contribute.
- Gender and Humanitarian Resource Kit
This Resource Kit is intended to help IASC members, and others, to implement the policy.
- Gender and Peacekeeping: An Online Training Course
There is a formal commitment from most agencies and groups involved in Peace Support Operations (PSO) to incorporate an understanding of gender issues in their work. This course will become your tool for meeting that commitment. What you will learn will allow you to enhance your own abilities and improve the overall effectiveness of any PSO in which you participate. Within conflict-affected communities, men, women, boys and girls all experience war differently. Gender describes the social and cultural roles governing relationships between men and women, which in turn influence the impact of armed conflict on each. Gender must be recognized as a vital component of plans and programs to avoid, mitigate and resolve conflict situations, and to build sustainable peace. To do an effective job, everyone involved in PSOs, NGOs, governments, militaries, police and humanitarian agencies must understand the gender dimension of conflict.
- Gender and Sexual Health Annotated Bibliography
- Gender Approaches in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations
This text highlights recovery and rehabilitation activities in crisis and post-conflict situations to mainstream gender equality objectives.
- Gender Briefing Kit (Vietnam)
The information provided in the kit is new - it provides the most recent information, including statistics from the recent Viet Nam Living Standards Survey in a concise briefing format. The information focuses on areas of interest and concern to women and men in Viet Nam, from a history of gender relations to information on health, education and mainstreaming gender in the project cycle. As such, it is not a comprehensive analysis, but a guide to the key issues and concerns for development for women and gender issues in Viet Nam.
- Gender Considerations in Disaster Assessment
This document deals with the following key questions: How are women and men, girls and boys differently affected by the disaster? What are the implications for the relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction effort (in terms of needs, access to assistance and contribution to community efforts)? Are there particular vulnerabilities/difficulties that result from the disaster for women, for children, for men? How do gender norms of the community affect aid seeking behavior and/or access to aid? Are women predisposed to have less access to aid/information due to cultural norms affecting mobility in public, illiteracy? Are local women and their associations being actively included in planning and implementation? Are there women and men involved in decision-making and employed as aid workers at all levels?
- Gender Dimensions of Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Challenges in Development Aid, The
Based on analysis of the World Bank and other donors for post-conflict reconstruction (PCR) loans and grants from rights-based, macroeconomic and microeconomic perspectives, we conclude that few PCR projects identify or address gender discrimination issues. Bank PCR investments hardly reflect Bank research recognizing that gender inequality increases the likelihood of conflict and gender equality is central to development and peace. Our conceptual framework examining women's programmes, gender mainstreaming, and gender roles in transforming violent into peaceful societies, leads to recommending that PCR projects systematically address gender issues and promote gender equality to make peace work.
- Gender Equality and Men: Learning from Practice
Alongside longstanding and justifiable concern about the power and privileges that men as a group hold in most - if not all - societies, the past 10 to 15 years has seen growing interest in men's actual and potential contribution to gender equality. Oxfam's Gender Equality and Men (GEM) Project has been exploring since 2002 what part men can play in gender equality and anti-poverty initiatives. Oxfam has recently published 'Gender Equality and Men: Learning from Practice', which aims to provide a critical account of practical experience in this field, and to share knowledge and expertise gained from programmes run by Oxfam and other organisations.
- Gender Equality in Disasters: Six Principles for Engendered Relief and Reconstruction
- Gender Profile of the Conflict in Columbia
- Gender Resource Package for Peacekeeping Operations
This gender resource package offers concrete guidance on how to identify the various gender issues in peacekeeping, and how to integrate, or mainstream, gender into all aspects of peacekeeping. This improves the effectiveness with which peacekeeping operations discharge their mandates and is, therefore, integral to their success.
- Gender Training Resources Collection
A searchable database containing training materials related to gender. There are specific sections on women and armed conflict, women and poverty and violence against women.
- Gender, Conflict and Development
This book highlights the gender dimensions of conflict, organised around major relevant themes such as female combatants, sexual violence, formal and informal peace processes, the legal framework, work, the rehabilitation of social services and community-driven development. It analyses how conflict changes gender roles and the policy options that might be considered to build on positive aspects of these roles while minimising adverse changes.
- Gender, Conflict and Development
- Gender, Conflict, and Peacekeeping
Peacekeeping has become a major international undertaking throughout the world, from Africa to the Americas, from Europe to Southeast Asia. Yet until now, there has been no systematic analysis of the key role of gender in post-cold war conflicts and of post-conflict peacekeeping efforts. This groundbreaking volume explores how gender has become a central factor in shaping current thinking about the causes and consequences of armed conflict, complex emergencies, and reconstruction. Drawing on expertise ranging from the highest levels of international policymaking down to the daily struggle to implement peacekeeping operations, this work represents the full span of knowledge and experience about international intervention in local crises. Presenting a rich array of examples from Angola, Bosnia Herzegovina, East Timor, El Salvador, the former Yugoslavia, Guatemala, Haiti, Kosovo, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, and Serbia, the authors offer important insights for future peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.
- Gender-Based Violence
This book brings together some of the most interesting and innovative work being done to tackle gender-based violence in various sectors, world regions, and socio-political contexts. Articles cover a wide range of manifestations of gender-based violence, including femicide, or the murder of women because they are women, domestic and sexual violence, female genital mutilation or cutting, the sexual exploitation of girls at school, and trafficking for prostitution. The case studies are drawn from South and East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America, and a detailed list of resources completes the volume.
- Gender-based violence legal aid: A participatory toolkit - GBV in conflict-affected settings
This toolkit aims to offer guidance to those seeking to establish legal justice for survivors of Gender Based Violence (GBV), as well as for those in settings where legal justice is not yet a possibility. It addresses three programmatic areas namely: Minimum GBV Prevention and Response Services, Structure of Law, Legal Aid. These three areas incorporate the primary GBV programming sectors of health care, psycho-social support, security/police/protection, and legal justice. This toolkit is primarily targeted at humanitarian aid workers from all service sectors - health, social service, legal, and security - to support the development and implementation of GBV services and to ensure all camp programmes integrate protection from GBV into all services in the setting.
- Gender-Based Violence: A Price Too High
Highlighting the high costs to women and society, Chapter 7 of the 2005 State of World Population report documents the high social, emotional and economic costs of gender-based violence.
- Gender-based Violence: A silent, vicious epidemic
Social workers and aid professionals working against gender-based violence (GBV) are overwhelmed with cases of violations as indiscriminate as they are vicious. Despite their considerable knowledge and experience, even gender experts Elizabeth Rehn and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, "were completely unprepared for the searing magnitude of what we saw and heard in the conflict and post-conflict areas we visited" as they assessed the impact of armed conflict on women and women's role in peace-building in various countries.
- Gender-Based Violence: Emerging Issues in Programs Serving Displaced Populations
This report provides a compendium of key lessons learned from work with gender based violence programs in populations affected by armed conflict. In addition to offering recommended resource materials and a sample interagency procedure manual, its three main parts discuss: emerging standards, putting it together, and varied programs, shared challenges.
- Getting it Right, Doing it Right: Gender and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
This guide aims to facilitate the implementation of the sections on DDR within Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. It contains lessons learned and recommendations from consultation, field visits, desk research and case studies on each of the following areas: frameworks and definitions; participation and decision-making; resources; weapons collection; cantonment (temporary troop housing); and demobilisation and reintegration. Two detailed case studies are provided on Liberia and Papua New Guinea.
- Getting Reparations Right for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Sierra Leone
This report focuses specifically on reparations for survivors of sexual abuse, which mainly affects women and girls from rural areas in Sierra Leone. Amnesty International examines the social and individual effects of sexual violence, the failure of the government to provide measures to address its impact, including justice and reparations, and the need for the government to implement a comprehensive and effective reparations program to get reparations right for victims of sexual violence.
- Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, The
With members consisting of both organizations and individuals worldwide, GAATW has coordinated, organized and facilitated work on issues related to trafficking in persons and women's labor migration.
- Global Forum for Health Research
Website contains a working bibliography on sexual violence against women as well as a literature review, based on an extensive survey of recently published literature on sexual violence against women.
- Global IDP Project, The
Links to various IDP related sites, plus articles and papers. Available in several languages.
- Glossary of Violence against Women
The NGO Working Group on Violence against Women has compiled a glossary of violence against women highlighting the actions or non-actions undertaken by governments to address this problem.
- Good practices in ending violence against women: protecting human rights good practices for development cooperation
This report argues that the root causes of violence against women are dominant gender norms and the unequal power balance between men and women. The first part describes the international and regional human rights framework related to gender-based violence and demonstrates the disastrous impact of violence against women and girls on human development and how this directly relates to most of the MDGs.The second part offers numerous examples illustrating GTZs practical experiences in addressing violence against women and girls in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
- Government Response to Domestic Violence Against Refugee and Immigrant Women in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Area: A Human Rights Report, The
Documents domestic violence against refugee and immigrant women in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area as a human rights violation in the United States. With this report, Minnesota Advocates highlights many of the innovative programs and legislative initiatives that advance the safety of battered refugee and immigrant women in our community and the prosecution of their abusers. The report finds that battered refugee and immigrant women in the Twin Cities area nevertheless face serious obstacles in accessing protection from domestic violence and government services, and in pursuing accountability for their abusers. These obstacles include language barriers and inadequate access to interpretation services; barriers from within immigrant communities that impede government effectiveness; fear of government institutions and immigration authorities; inadequate funding of necessary services and programs, and other obstacles in the law or implementation of the law. This report includes an analysis of governments compliance with their obligation to protect the human rights, safety and security of refugee and immigrant women who are victims of violence.
- Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings
The Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Interventions in Emergency Settings have been developed by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Task force on HIV/AIDS in Emergency Settings to respond to the growing concern for the development of a more specific response to HIV/AIDS in crises. The purpose of these Guidelines is to enable governments and cooperating agencies, including UN Agencies and NGOs, to deliver the minimum required multi-sectoral response to HIV/AIDS during the early phase of a crisis. UNFPA in partnership with fourteen other agencies (UN and international NGOs) has made substantial contributions towards the development of the Guidelines.
- Guidelines for Medico-Legal Care for Victims of Sexual Violence
Sexual violence has a significant negative impact on the health of the population. The potential reproductive and sexual health consequences are numerous unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) and increased risk for adoption of adoption of risky sexual behaviours (e.g. early and increased sexual involvement, and exposure to older and multiple partners). The mental health consequences of sexual violence can be just as serious and long lasting. Victims of child sexual abuse, for example, are more likely to experience depression, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide in later life than their non-abused counterparts. Worldwide child sexual abuse is a major cause of PTSD, accounting for an estimated 33% of cases in females and 21% of cases in males.
- Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument
The Health Rights of Women Assessment Instrument (HeRWAI) is a newly developed, practical tool for organisations that want to bring a human rights approach into practice. It contains practical guidance for a rights based analysis of a policy. Through a HeRWAI analysis, organisations can link what actually happens with what should happen according to the human rights obligations of a country. The analysis includes local, national and international influences and is based on the norms set by CEDAW and ICESCR. The result of a HeRWAI analysis is a set of recommendations to improve the impact of the policy, as well as an action plan to lobby for acceptance of the recommendations and raise awareness about the findings.
- Hesperian Foundation, The
A non-profit organization committed to improving the health of people in poor communities throughout the world by making health information accessible. The newsletter, Women's Health Exchange: A resource for education and training, is an 8-page, quarterly newsletter promoting participatory education in women's health. Each issue includes profiles of innovative women's health projects, practical suggestions about health education, new developments in women's health, and a training guide to help facilitators plan fun, educational activities designed to raise awareness around different women's health concerns.
- HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Literature Review
A large body of literature exists on the negative impacts of societies stringent ascription of gender roles on vulnerability to HIV infection and, once infected, to receiving appropriate or quality care and treatment. Gender based expectations as well as increased rates of poverty and persistent forms of discrimination against vulnerable groups (including discrimination based on gender) are well known economic, social and cultural sources providing fuel for the HIV epidemic. Writings on gender-based violence is rich and varied. In this context, gender based violence is understood as any type of violence directed at groups or individuals on the basis of their gender. It encompasses, but is not limited to, violence against women (VAW). This is an important distinction as GBV and VAW are often, erroneously, used synonymously. Research, policy and programmatic literature with a focus on GBV often encompass attention to human rights and to sexuality within their conceptual approach.
- Human Rights Abuses and Concerns about Women's Health and Human Rights in Souuthern Iraq
The purpose of this study was to assess the nature and scope of human rights abuses of southern Iraq sine the Shi'a uprising in 1991. More specifically, the study was designed to identify specific human rights abuses and perpetrators, to determine health and human rights concerns with a focus on women's rights, and to examine Iraqi views on women's rights and roles in society and provisions for community health and development.
- Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law in to Local Justice
- Human Rights Education Association
Political, non-profit organization whose main mission is to support efforts aimed at introducing human rights concepts and values into educational curricula and teaching practices. Dedicated to quality education and training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions to protect human rights, and to foster the development of peaceable, free and just communities. Works with individuals, non-governmental organizations, inter-governmental organizations and governments interested in implementing human rights education programs. The services provided by HREA are: assistance in curriculum and materials development; training of professional groups; research and evaluation; organizational development; and networking with human rights education resources and professionals.
- Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.
- Human RIghts Watch World Report 2007
This report is Human Rights Watch's seventeenth annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 70 countries worldwide, drawing on events through mid-November 2006. With Washington's voice diminished, the European Union today should be the strongest and most effective defender of human rights. But as the EU grapples with its enlarged membership, it is punching well below its weight. As the report shows, there is no shortage of serious challenges to human rights requiring more effective global leadership.
- Human Strategies for Human Rights
HSHR supports the development of organized and professional approaches to the promotion and protection of human rights. We accomplish this by undertaking short term on-site training and capacity building partnerships with NGOs and through on-line mentoring support.
- Humanitarian Assistance: Protecting Refugee Women and Girls Remains a Significant Challenge
Addresses protection measures in regards to UN Peacekeeper and humanitarian abuses in refugee and IDP situations. Also describes US government's efforts to support adequate protection for vulnerable populations.
- Impact of Disasters on Women (from the Handbook for Estimating Socio-Economic and Environmental Effects of Disasters), The
- Impact of Guns on Women's Lives, The
Countless women and girls have been shot and killed or injured in every region of the world. Millions more live in fear of armed violence against women. Two key factors lie at the heart of these abuses: the proliferation and misuse of small arms and deep-rooted discrimination against women. This report spells out the key steps to take in order to help stop armed violence against women.
- Improving the Security of Refugee and Displaced Women
Aiming to define practices to improve the security of refugee and displaced women, this conference report explores some of the relevant gender dynamics, drawing on case studies on each topic and providing recommendations for practitioners.
- INFO Project, The
The INFO Project expands on the work of its predecessor, the Population Information Program (PIP). The mission and activities of the INFO Project reflect a new way of understanding how knowledge and information can improve the quality of reproductive health programs, practice, and policies. The INFO Project works to achieve the following results: - Identify, synthesize, and make available information on useful and best approaches and findings. - Enhance local capacity to serve local information needs. - Strengthen South-South and South-North knowledge communities and networks. The INFO Project offers a range of information resources and services, all complementing one another, to ensure that information, knowledge, and best practices for family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) are accessed by multiple audiences with different needs, including: - Health practitioners who need accurate, science-based information to improve clinical practice and outcomes. - Policy-makers and health officials looking to base policy and programs on best findings. - Teachers and training serving providers in urban centers and hard-to-reach communities. - Donors, who must make tough choices about limited resources. - Academics and researchers who contribute to and draw from a global body of knowledge. - The news media in need of accurate information to inform and educate their audiences.
- InterAction
Alliance of US-based international development on humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. Multiple resources.
- InterAction's Commission on the Advancement of Women
Created in 1992 by InterAction's Executive Committee to give enhanced visibility and priority to gender equity efforts within the community. As mandated, the CAW promotes gender equity in the policy and practice of InterAction members, national, and international development and humanitarian assistance organizations. CAW works with other US and international NGO networks to promote implementation of the Platform for Action from the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
- Interagency Gender Working Group
Network of NGOs and the USAID Population Health Nutrition Center, which seeks to promote gender equity within population and health programs within the context of sustainable development and human rights. The IGWG is a mechanism for helping to better achieve reproductive health goals.
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Summaries of IDP-related news from the Global IDP Project.
- International Alert
International Alert was established in 1986 by a group of human rights advocates led by the former Secretary General of Amnesty International, Martin Ennals, in response to growing concerns expressed by those working in international development agencies, human rights organisations and those involved in the issues of ethnic conflict and genocide. This group recognised that the denial of human rights often led to internal armed conflicts which, in turn, further undermined efforts to protect individual and collective human rights and to promote sustainable development. Special section on Gender and Conflict.
- International Center for Research on Women
ﾠPrivate, nonprofit organization founded in 1976 and based in Washington, DC, with an office in India. ICRW seeks to improve the lives of women in poverty, advance women's equality and human rights, and contribute to the broader economic and social well being. ICRW also seeks to accomplish this, in partnership with others, through research, capacity building and advocacy on issues affecting women's' economic, health and social status in low and middle-income countries. Contains research and advocacy publications, media links, and job listings.
- International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
Publications on women's rights. French and Spanish resource, too.
- International Committee of the Red Cross - Women and war
Links to documents about women and war.
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Site includes fact sheets on ICTY proceedings, key figures, updated lists of outstanding public indictments, detainees, former detainees, and updated status of individual cases. Also includes information sheets on trials, case information and indictments, a section on basic legal documents, and other resources.
- International Justice Failing Rape Victims
Despite significant strides in international law, many sexual violence crimes are going unpunished because of flawed investigations and prosecutions. Covers the conflicts in the Balkans, DRC, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Sudan.
- International Planned Parenthood Federation
- International Planned Parenthood/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR)
- International Relations and Security Network
Daily news summaries on conflict, peacekeeping, arms control, and other security issues. Searchable archive available.
- International Women's Health Coalition
IWHC's mission is to generate funding and create health and population policies to promote and protect the rights of women and girls. Their website has several full-text documents, including those prepared by HERA (Health, Empowerment, Rights and Accountability - an international group of women's health activists) on gender equality, reproductive health rights, women's empowerment and sexual health.
- International Women's Tribune Center
IWTC is an international, activist organization rooted in the first global non-governmental women's meeting held in 1975 in Mexico City. For the last 25 years, IWTC has played an important role as a major information, education, communication, networking, technical assistance and training resource for women worldwide. The website contains links to training materials, background papers, advocacy briefs, online news resources/publications relating to gender issues and much more.
- Intimate Enemy: Gender Violence and Reproductice Health, The
- Intimate Partner Violence: Results from a National Gender-Based Violence Study in Malawi
- IPAS
Information on provision of reproductive health services for rape victims.
- It Takes Two: Partnering with Men in Reproductive and Sexual Health
Partnering with men is emerging as an important strategy for improving reproductive health. This new publication offers guidance on effective and gender-sensitive ways to engage men in the reproductive and sexual health of themselves and their partners. It includes examples of successful strategies and programming as well as lessons learned. A checklist summarizing key points makes this programme advisory note an especially useful tool for both designing and evaluating projects. Document is available in English, French and Spanish.
- Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
Dedicated to fostering peace, cultivating justice, and creating a safer world, the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) of the University of San Diego is an international nonprofit organization working to improve the lives of those caught in the web of armed conflict and human rights abuses, with a special focus on women and youth.
- Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
Full-text articles and book reviews on issues related to complex emergencies.
- Kenyan Women Speak on the Proposed Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission
This report contains a summary of discussions at a one day forum that was convened by the Urgent Action Fund Africa in collaboration with the Federation of Women Lawyers -Kenya (FIDA- Kenya) in Nairobi on the 28th day of May 2003. We also included useful papers that formed the background reading material for the discussions and summaries of panelists presentations. The report will be presented to the Task Force on the establishment of a Truth Justice & Reconciliation commission in Kenya.
- Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation supports women in regions affected by war and conflict. We work in partnership with women's organisations in the Balkans, in the Middle East and in the Caucasus. We support projects to strengthen women psychologically and physically. We want to empower these women and support them in building.
- Listening to the SilencesWomen and War
Listening to the Silences: Women and War is a collection of womens voices, each exploring a unique aspect of womens experiences and changing needs during armed conflict, and the adequacy of legal and other responses to those needs. Drawing together highly personal storiesincluding those of a survivor of sexual slavery during World War II and a soldier recently returned from service in Iraqwith tight academic analyses, this book highlights the ways in which the international community at large has historically failed to listen to women. It reveals that responses to womens requirements during times of war will continue to be inadequate so long as we persist in silencing these differing perspectives and fail to take account of womens dynamic and changing needs.
- Literature Review and Analysis Related to Human Trafficking in Post-Conflict Situations
- Lives blown apart: Crimes against women in times of conflict
- MADRE
Includes descriptions of their projects in Mexico, Nicaragua, Haiti, Rwanda, Palestine, Cuba, and Guatemala, as well as an archive of their newsletter, "Madre Speaks."
- Make Every Mother and Child Count
The report is an overview of maternal welfare, child welfare and maternal health services around the world especially in the developing world. It examines infant mortality, maternal mortality, child and maternal healthcare and other factors related to them like pregnancy, abortion and diseases. It also contains expert analysis of both the progress and obstacles to progress in maternal, neonatal and child health in various regions of the globe and recommendations aimed at overcoming the obstacles.
- Making Violence Against Women Count - Facts And Figures
The following statistics outline the gravity and magnitude of the problem of violence against women throughout the world. Worldwide statistics include violence in the family, sexual violence, women and war, harmful practices, and more.
- Marked for Death: Rape Survivors Living with HIV/AIDS in Rwanda
In April 1994, Rwanda suffered one hundred days of violence, targeted at the Tutsi and moderate Hutu population. Ten years later, the consequences of the violence have not been dealt with adequately, neither by the international community nor by the Rwandan government. Survivors of violence still cry out for medical care; survivors and families of victims clamour for justice that is slow in coming. Women continue to die from diseases related to HIV/AIDS, which some of them contracted as a result of rape during the 1994 genocide and armed conflict. Survivors of rape and their families face human rights violations that themselves lead to further and overlapping violations: survivors of sexual violence may have contracted HIV/AIDS, as a result of which they and their families often face stigma, which can in turn lead to loss of employment, difficulty in asserting property rights, and a loss of civil and political rights.
- Masculinities: Male Roles and Male Involvement in the Promotion of Gender Equality A Resource Packet
This resource packet attempts to broaden understandings of masculinities, the role and need for male inclusion in the gender mainstreaming process, how gender inequality impacts both men and women, and to provide thoughts for the way forward. Much of the information provided in generic, but its intent is to target service providers working with displaced populations as a means of strengthening their appraoches and interventions in order to enhance a gender mainstreaming of their work. Finally, tools are provided to assess male and female participation and measure good practice.
- Masculinity and Gender-Based Violence (UNIFEM Gender Fact Sheet No. 5)
UNIFEM's fact sheets provide technical information on some key women's and gender issues. This fact sheet includes statistics and definitions for gender-based violence as well as advocacy tools.
- medica mondiale
The English term advocacy aptly conveys how medica mondiale pursues the idea of championing womens human rights: we combine direct medical, psycho-social and legal support with advocacy for womens issues wherever political decisions are taken. We work to ensure that politicians and the general public are aware of human rights violations against women and take political action. We raise societys awareness about the issues facing survivors of sexualised violence in war and crisis zones. Available in German.
- Medica Zenica
Medica Zenica was set up in 1993 in the town of Zenica in Bosnia, by a German gynaecologist who had heard about the Bosnian rape camps and came to help the women survivors. Medica has developed other programmes such as research, advocacy, networking, education and training. Website is in Croatian.
- Men to Men Project: Men against Gender-based Violence Regional Network
FEMNETs involvement in the Men to Men Project started with a men to men consultation held in December 2001. The consultation brought together men from Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa, representing community organisations, human rights and legal groups, religious organisations, universities and the police. The Consultation culminated in the development of a plan of action, which specified some follow-up action at the regional and national levels. Participants committed themselves to take action and requested FEMNET to host the African Network of Men Against Gender Based Violence. On the basis of this recommendation and the proposed follow-up actions, FEMNET developed the Men to Men Project. The project is being implemented with partners from Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and South Africa.
- Migration News
Monthly newsletter reporting on immigration and integration developments worldwide. Also available in e-mail format, and a searchable archive is available.
- Milestones of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention 2005: Changing the Face of Violence Prevention
This report describes the many activities that have been organized as part of the Global Campaign for Violence Prevention, since its launch in 2002. The document reviews global activities coordinated by WHO and its collaborators, provides regional reports on recent developments and promising new programmes, and surveys the work of the Violence Prevention Alliance and its progress in building global commitment to violence prevention
- Natural Disasters and IDPs' Rights
In the understandable rush to provide assistance to the survivors of the tsunami, inefficient attention has been devoted to protecting the human rights of those forcibly displaced by the disaster.
- Netlinks
A searchable database of internet resources in population, health and development from the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Program. It includes over 1,100 listings and is updated monthly. It can be searched in the basic mode by country, type of resource, and subject. Currently developing a section on violence against women.
- New Role for Men:Partners for Women's Empowerment, A
Site includes fact sheets on ICTY proceedings, key figures, updated lists of outstanding public indictments, detainees, former detainees, and updated status of individual cases. Also includes information sheets on trials, case information and indictments, a section on basic legal documents, and other resources.
- No Status: Migration, Trafficking, and Exploitation of Women in Thailand: Health and HIV/AIDS Risks for Burmese and Hill Tribe Women and Girls
Despite a program widely hailed as a model of HIV prevention for the region, corrupt and discriminatory law enforcement and failure to protect human rights by the Thai Government have permitted ongoing violations, some by authorities themselves, causing great harm to Burmese and hill tribe women and girls. A Physicians for Human Rights report released at the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok documents how the lack of legal status results in discrimination and exploitation, lack of personal security and inability to access health care and other services.
- Non-Violence Alliance, The
Training, program development, and direct intervention resources related to domestic violence perpetrators.
- Not a minute more: Ending Violence Against Women
This report highlights many of the achievements and indicates what must be done to build on them. It provides examples of good practices as well as of efforts that did not meet the goals set out for them and explores why not. It looks at the challenges ahead, and asks what the most fruitful next steps might be.
- Observations from the CDC: Sexual Violence against Refugee Women
- Obstacles to Women Accessing Forensic Medical Examines in Cases of Sexual Violence
In this paper, HRW calls on the World Health Organization (WHO) to establish minimum standards for the collection of evidence in cases of sexual and domestic violence. They also call on WHO to draft a policy paper to support the effective implementation of the minimum standards.
- Of War, Siege, and Lebanon: Women's Voices from the Middle East and South Asia
- Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
The Office's main objective is to promote and strengthen the effective implementation of the Millennium Declaration, the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) held in Beijing in 1995 and the Outcome Document of the special session of the General Assembly on Beijing+5.
- Our Bodies- Their Battleground: Gender-based Violence in Conflict Zones
Links and resources on gender-based violence and sexual violence in times of conflict.
- Overcoming Violence against Women and Girls: The International Campaign to Eradicate a Worldwide Problem
- Peacekeeping Watch: Monitoring Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Peacekeepers and the Efforts of the International Community to Respond
Peacekeeping Watch was initiated by the Center for Strategic Initiatives for Women, the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice and WILPF in order to help ensure the most comprehensive documentation of these violations and timely advocacy efforts. WILPF's PeaceWomen Project continues this project today as part of its broader work on gender and peacekeeping-related issues, and under the overarching umbrella of working toward the implementation of Resolution 1325.
- PeaceWomen
PeaceWomen.org is a project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) United Nations Office, in New York City. The PeaceWomen Project monitors and works toward rapid and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. Many international resources available.
- People Trafficking: Upholding Rights and Understanding Vulnerabilities
This edition of the Forced Migration Review covers many aspects of the vulnerabilities of the victims of forced migration. This issue looks not only at the struggles of refugees and internally displaced people, but also victims of human trafficking
- Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them.
- Polaris Project, The
Polaris Project is an international organization combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Based in the United States and Japan, they bring together community members, survivors, and professionals to fight trafficking and slavery in the spirit of a modern-day Underground Railroad.
- Prevalence of Wife-Beating in Jordanian Refugee Camps: Reports by Men and Women
Using data from independent samples of married men and women, this study investigated the prevalence of wife beating in the Palestinian refugee camps of Jordan.
- Prevention and Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Refugee Situations
- Proceedings of the international Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders
The International Consultation on Women Human Rights Defenders was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, between 29 November and 2 December 2005. The term women human rights defenders encompasses both women active in human rights defense who are targeted for who they are as well as all those active in the defence of womens rights who are targeted for what they do. Simply, it pertains to human rights activists who are women, as well as other activists (whether male, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or any other sexes) who also defend the rights of women. 180 women human rights defenders took part in the Consultation. These participants included women who work to protect the human rights of others in a range of contexts, and also men who work specifically to defend the rights of women.
- Protection of Women in Armed Conflict
- Psychological Consequences of Sexual Trauma, The
- Psychosocial Challenges and Interventions for Women Affected by Conflict
This journal is dedicated to discussing psychosocial support for women in conflict and post-conflict societies. Specifically, the authors focus on the psychological aspects of trauma women suffer during and after major conflict, and what individuals and organizations can do to best address this trauma and support women as they rebuild their lives and war-ravaged communities.
- Putting a Human Face to the Problem of Small Arms Proliferation: Gender Implications for the Effective Implementation of the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects
This project aims to examine the potential impact that gender issues have on small arms and light weapons proliferation generally and specifically in relation to the 2001 UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects.
- Refugee Women in Development
An international women in development institution focusing on refugee, displaced, and returnee women in the United States and overseas. Work to heighten awareness of human rights abuses against uprooted women, and seek to support the civil and democratic institutional development capacities of women who have experienced mass human rights abuses, domestic violence, rape trauma, war, and civil strife. In addition, RefWID provides training for empowerment, leadership development, capacity building, advocacy, and individual skill building to women who are experiencing major socio-political transformations.
- Refugee women: Selected bibliography on women's rights violations (1990-2005)
Includes multiple resources, all under the general topic of women's rights violations.
- Refugee Womens Resource Project (UK)
RWRP is a project set up in April 2000 by Asylum Aid, a registered charity that provides free legal representation and advice to asylum seekers and refugees. It aims to enable women fleeing serious human rights violations to gain protection in the UK.
- Refugees and AIDS: What should the humanitarian community do?
The aim of the document is to stimulate policy makers, managers and implementers to strengthen their response to HIV/AIDS. It is not a comprehensive guide to HIV/AIDS programming in refugee settings. Readers are engouraged to utilize the key resource materials, among others, referenced at the end of the document.
- Refugees, Race, and Gender: The Multiple Discrimination against Refugee Women
This paper examines the intersectionality of race and gender in refugee situations, and the multiple forms of discrimination experienced by refugee women.
- Relationship od Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SBGV) to Behavior among Refugee Women: The Mediating Role of Depression, The
This study investigates the relationship of SGBV, learned helplessness, depression, and sexual risk behaviors among refugee women in Botswana utlizing a cross-sectional research design and the theory of learned helplessness.
- ReliefWeb
Great source of information on complex emergencies, including up-to-date news organized by country, maps, training resources and other documents relevant to humanitarian work.
- Report of the United Nations Development Fund for Women on the Elimination of Violence Against Women: Note by the Secretary-General (2005)
- Report on the Workshop on Conflict Transformation in Africa: African Womens Perspectives
The workshop on which this report is based constitutes an important step in the overall assessment of womens contributions to conflict resolution in Africa. Many conferences, seminars and meetings dealing with armed conflicts have been organised at the local, regional and continental levels. However, the workshop was not just another talking shop. Breaking with the traditional image of women as eternal victims, the workshop focused on women as social actors and their involvement in armed conflicts, not only in their search for solutions, but also as interested parties who are actively involved in conflicts as combatants.
- Reporting on Gender-Based Violence: A Guide for Journalists
The Womens Rights Division of Human Rights Watch values the important role journalists play in publicizing gender-based violence. Sensitive and informed media coverage of gender-based violence is critical for raising public awareness and political accountability. Journalists have often asked our advice about how to cover these abuses in an ethical way without further traumatizing the survivors. This fact sheet provides basic information to journalists about important safety and confidentiality guidelines to follow when investigating and writing about gender-based violence.
- Reproduction Health for Displaced People (Forced Migration Review)
This issue secifically focuses on gender-based violence and reproductive health issues in refugee and IDP populations.
- Reproductive Health in Humanitarian Assistance: A Literature Overview
A review of the literature on reproductive health in humanitarian assistance. Topics include: safe motherhood, sexual and gender-based violence, STD and HIV/AIDS, family planning and reproductive health for young people.
- Reproductive Health in the Context of Forced Migrations (Annotated Bibliography)
- Reproductive Health Services for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: A Decade of Progress
- Reproductive Health Strategy: to accelarate progress towards the attainment of international development goals and targets
- Resource List for Adolescent Reproductive Health Programming in Conflict Settings., A
Resource list.
- Responding to Violence Against Women: How Development Policies Address the Issue of Gender-Based Violence
The paper highlights the shortcomings of current development policies designed to tackle violence against women (VAW). It proposes a new framework based on a body politics approach to address VAW. The paper argues that the current discourse on women's sexuality perpetuates violence against women by legitimising the use of their bodies for political, cultural and economic consolidation. Sexuality is an integral component of the web of gendered power relations that reach beyond the economic and political spheres to control women's behaviour and maintain their subordination. Yet, sexuality is rarely discussed in development theory and practice, except in terms of population or reproductive health.
- RH Reality Check
RH Reality Check is an online community and publication serving individuals and organizations committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. RH Reality Check is guided by the issues and recommendations identified in the Program of Action agreed on at the International Conference on Population and Development at Cairo in 1994. Protection is our watchword we are contributing to the global effort to empower people with the information, services and leadership they need to safeguard their sexual and reproductive health and rights and to guard against false attacks and misinformation. RH Reality Check exists as a resource for evidence-based information, provocative commentary, and interactive dialogue.
- Right to Survive Sexual Violence, Women & HIV/AIDS, The
This report focuses on the plight of the women in Rwanda, Burundi, Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of the Congo who have contracted HIV/AIDS as a result of rape during conflict in those countries. The report argues that under international human rights and humanitarian law, these women have the right to reparations for their suffering, including guaranteed access to antiretroviral drugs to fight HIV/AIDS.
- Role of Women in Reconciliation and Peace Building in Rwanda: Ten Years after Genocide 1994-2004: Contributions, Challenges and Way Forward, The
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Conscious that all peoples are united by common bonds, their cultures pieced together in a shared heritage, and concerned that this delicate mosaic may be shattered at any time, - Mindful that during this century millions of children, women and men have been victims of unimaginable atrocities that deeply shock the conscience of humanity, - Recognizing that such grave crimes threaten the peace, security and well-being of the world, - Affirming that the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole must not go unpunished and that their effective prosecution must be ensured by taking measures at the national level and by enhancing international cooperation, - Determined to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of these crimes and thus to contribute to the prevention of such crimes, - Recalling that it is the duty of every State to exercise its criminal jurisdiction over those responsible for international crimes, - Reaffirming the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and in particular that all States shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations, - Emphasizing in this connection that nothing in this Statute shall be taken as authorizing any State Party to intervene in an armed conflict or in the internal affairs of any State, - Determined to these ends and for the sake of present and future generations, to establish an independent permanent International Criminal Court in relationship with the United Nations system, with jurisdiction over the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole, - Emphasizing that the International Criminal Court established under this Statute shall be complementary to national criminal jurisdictions, - Resolved to guarantee lasting respect for and the enforcement of international justice,
- Sage Publications
Publishes a number of books on violence against women. Use the search function to find additional publications.
- Secretary-General's Study on Violence against Women
This is the UN Secretary General's in-depth study on violence against women available as a background document for the 61st session of the General Assembly. In preparing the study, the Division for the Advancement of Women solicited input through a variety of means, e.g. holding expert group meetings, forming an advisory committee and creating an NGO taskforce.
- Seeking Justice: The Prosecution of Sexual Violence in the Congo War
This report documents how the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has taken insufficient steps to prosecute those responsible for wartime rape. Human Rights Watch calls on the Congolese government and international donors, including the European Union, to take urgent steps to reform Congos justice system.
- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Sexual Offense in Armed Conflict and International Law
This book examines whether the assumptions made by feminist scholars are solidly grounded in international law and whether their claims are still valid having regard to the latest legal developments.
- Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in War and Its Aftermath: Realities, Responses, and Required Resources
Prepared as a briefing paper for the Symposium on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Beyond, this document examines the nature and scope of violence against war-affected women and children, provides an overview of existing programmes and resources to combat it, and ends with an assessment of progress to date and challenges.
- Sexual Violence and War: Mapping Out a Complex Relationship
In the 1990s there was more focus on war-time sexual violence than ever before. Within academia, among policy-makers and in the media emerged a consensus that sexual violence can be used as a weapon of war. This article attempts to understand the complex relationship between sexual violence and war by presenting three different conceptualizations based on a literature study of 140 scholarly texts published mainly during the 1990s. The crux of this article is the argument that the relationship between sexual violence and war is best conceptualized within a social constructionist paradigm. The analysis shows that it is the social constructionist conceptualization which is best equipped to explain the complex empirical reality at hand.
- Sexual Violence in Conflict Settings and the Risk of HIV
This brief explores the nature of sexual violence in conflict settings and the risk of HIV. It outlines why it is important to focus on violence against women (VAW) in conflict settings and HIV. It then explores where and how VAW and HIV/AIDS intersect in these settings. The third section looks at how VAW in conflict settings can be addressed.
- Sexual Violence Research Institute
The SVRI aims to promote research on sexual violence and generate emperical data that ensures sexual violence is recognised as a legitimate public health problem. The SVRI does this by building an experienced and committed network of researchers, policy makers, activists and donors to ensure that the many aspects of sexual violence are addressed from the perspective of different disciplines and cultures.
- Sexual Violence Working Group: Resources 2003
Annotated bibliography on sexual violence including case studies, training materials, educational materials, and more. Extensive Spanish-language resources.
- Sexual Violence: Fact Sheet
Statistics about sexual violence vary due to differences in how it is defined and how data is collected. Sexual violence data usually come from police, clinical settings, nongovernmental organizations, and survey research. Available data greatly underestimate the true magnitude of the problem. Rape is one of the most underreported crimes. Reporting rates for rape vary across studies. While not an exhaustive list, here are some statistics on the occurrence of sexual violence.
- Shame of War, The: Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in Conflict
This is a reference book and photo essay of portraits and testimonies of the sexual violence women suffer when men go to war. It examines the scope and nature of this violence and looks at the different ways the international community is addressing sexual violence against women and girls during and after conflict. Above all, the aim of this book is to inform, to shock and to join the voices saying Enough! Sexual violence against women and girls does not have to be an inevitable consequence of war.
- Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI)
Website is currently under construction. SIGI seeks to deepen the understanding of women's rights at the local, national, regional and global levels, and to strengthen the capacity of women to exercise these rights. With members in 70 countries, SIGI currently maintains a network of over 1,300 individuals and organizations. Website includes training manuals, publications on gender violence, a bibliography, statistics on issues relating to women and girls, and lists of various organizations working with women's issues.
- Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, homepage
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in resolution 1994/45 decided to appoint a Special Rapporteur on violence against women, including its causes and consequences. Links to annual reports, country visits, and current issues.
- State of Terror: The Ongoing Rape, Murder, Torture and Forced Labour Suffered by Women Living Under the Burmese Military Regime in Karen State of Burma
This report clearly documents the range of human rights abuses that continue to be perpetrated across Karen State as a part of the SPDC's sustained campaign of terror. The report focuses in particular on the abuses experienced by women and girls and draws on over 4000 documented cases of human rights abuses perpetrated by the SPDC. These case studies provide shocking evidence of the entrenched and widespread abuses perpetrated against the civilian population of Karen State by the Burmese Military Regime.
- State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children: The Double Divide of Gender Equality
This report examines the discrimination and disempowerment women face throughout their lives and outlines what must be done to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls. It looks at the status of women today, discusses how gender equality will move all the Millennium Development Goals forward, and shows how investment in womens rights will ultimately produce a double dividend: advancing the rights of both women and children.
- State of the World's Mothers 2005: Protecting Women and Children in War and Conflict
The 2005 annual report on the State of the World's Mothers focuses on the women and children whose lives have been shattered by armed conflict, bringing attention to critical protection needs in war-torn communities around the world.
- State of World Population 2005: The Promise of Equality: Gender Equity, Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals
How do we improve the lives of the nearly 3 billion individuals living on less than two dollars a day? How can we enable all individuals male and female, young and old to protect themselves from HIV? To save the lives of more than 500,000 women who die each year in childbirth? What will it take to show young people living in poverty that they have a stake in development and a hope for the future? For perhaps the first time in history, questions such as these are not simply rhetorical. They have answers: answers that go to the very heart of what it means to be a woman or a man, wealthy or poor. Available in Arabic, English, French, Spanish and Russian.
- States of Conflict: Gender, Violence and Resistance
The volume will make links, in an non-simplistic way, between conflicts at the international, national, community, and household levels. It recognizes the enduring relevance of factors such as the exclusion of women from the public sphere and militarized constructions of masculinity to present-day examples of gendered violence. At the same time, it raises awkward questions about women's agency in these contexts.
- Status of Women in Iraq: An Assessment of Iraq's De Jure and De Facto Campliance with International Legal Standards, The
The Assessment covers thematic categories: political participation, civil society and women in decision making; violence against women and the right to personal security; labor and economic rights; family and marriage; nationality; health; and education in Iraq.
- Stolen Smiles: A Summary Report on the Physical and Psychological Health Consequences of Women and Adolescents Trafficked in Europe
Women and girls trafficked for forced sexual or domestic work suffer post-traumatic stress on a par with torture victims. In one of the first studies of health problems of women who have been trafficked, they found 95 percent had been physically or sexually abused and nearly 40 percent had suicidal thoughts.
- Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS
This text focuses on the points of intersection in the social, political and public health crises of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. The report uses a human rights lens to focus on critical political challenges and on innovative strategies used by activists worldwide as they respond to the links between violence and HIV/AIDS. The text is designed as an overview of the most salient issues, and is meant for activists and policy makers alike who may be familiar with HIV/AIDS, violence against women or human rights but not necessarily the nexus across all of these areas. The report highlights nine creative advocacy initiatives from different countries and regions, offers recommendations to a range of actors and contains a resource section for further study.
- Symposium on Best Practices in Humanitarian Information Exchange, Feb 5-8, 2002
ﾠThe purpose of this symposium was to challenge the assumptions made about humanitarian information and decision making, to discuss lessons learned, to compare various models and systems, to evaluate best practices in humanitarian information management, and to identify emerging technologies and approaches that may improve operational effectiveness and better facilitate information exchange among organizations. The ultimate product of the Symposium will be a Declaration on Best Practices in Humanitarian Information Exchange, which will be have been reviewed and endorsed by the plenary participants.
- Taliban's War on Women, The
The extent to which the Taliban regime has violated the human rights of Afghan women is unparalleled in recent history. This report contains compelling evidence of how a society in which women played a prominent role in the health professions, in government, and in teaching, has been replaced by one where: women are regularly and brutally beaten for walking on the street without a male chaperone or without a garment (burqua) that covers their bodies from head to toe; many women must beg because they are largely forbidden from working; women cannot obtain health care from many facilities and cannot be examined by a male doctor without a chaperone, and schools for women and girls have closed their doors with the exception of Qu'ranic training for girls under eight. Such discrimination and the suffering it causes constitute an affront to the dignity and worth of Afghan women and humanity as a whole.
- Tokyo Tribunal and Comfort Women (Bibliography)
Bibliography with English and French texts.
- 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
Focusing on sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women displaced by war and armed conflict, this guide provides a tool for the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian aid programmes.
- Training materials for service providers in the field of domestic and sexual violence
A list of PCAR training and resource materials that can be ordered online.
- Tsunami's Impact on Women, The
This briefing seeks to promote debate and awareness of the issues and to ensure that the recovery phase of the relief effort integrates the problems raised. It looks at the impact of the tsunami in Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka, and in particular at how it has affected women. It concludes with some recommendations about how we can start addressing the problems raised.
- UN SC Resolution 1325, Women Peace and Security Issues and Instruments: The Afghan Context
A report on the first ever Afghan consultation on the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security. The consultation was organised by International Alert's Gender and Peacebuilding Programme and the Afghan Civil Society Forum (ACSF).
- UN-INSTRAW, United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
INSTRAW is the only institution in the United Nations system solely devoted to research and training for the advancement of women. Website contains links to numerous worldwide news links (from a gender perspective), current programs and publications (including "Men's roles and responsibilities in ending gender-based violence", as well as links to online discussion lists.
- Understanding United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
Resolution 1325 calls for: -participation of women in peace processes -gender training in peacekeeping operations -protection of women and girls and respect for their rights -gender mainstreaming in the reporting and implementation systems of the United Nations relating to conflict, peace and security. This document is a guide to the resolution in french and english.
- UNDP Gender good practices database
Contains examples in area of violence against women from many UN agencies including health aspects.
- UNHCR, Guiding principles on internal displacement
Address the specific needs of internally displaced persons across the world. Identify rights and guarantees relevant to the protection of persons from forced displacement and to their protection and assistance during displacement as well as during return or resettlement and reintegration. The principles reflect and are consistent with international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Provide guidance to: The Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons in carrying out his mandate; states when faced with the phenomenon of internal displacement; all other authorities, groups and persons in their relations with internally displaced persons; and intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations when addressing internal displacement. In keeping with the mandate to disseminate and apply these principles as widely as possible, they are available in several languages.
- UNICEF
UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. That makes us unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young.
- UNICEF Training of Trainers on Gender-Based Violence: Focusing on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
This document outlines a module for a training workshop on gender-based violence, which focuses on sexual abuse and exploitation. Facilitators are expected to take specific modules and adapt them to their needs and the context where the training is taking place(objectives, profile of participants, office and national culture and time available etc.).
- UNIFEM
- United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
This background information note gives a timeline of the development of UN policy with regard to violence against women. Brief descriptions of the major conferences held to address the issue of violence against women, starting with the first World Conference on Women in Mexico in 1975, through the Beijing +5 Conference in June 2000.
- Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights
As the only international womens fund in the world designed to respond on short notice, UAF collaborates with women activists in three primary contexts: peace building in situations of armed conflict, escalating violence, or politically volatile environments; potentially precedent-setting legal and legislative actions; and protection of women human rights defenders. UAF joins with local women to build civil societies that honor their experiences and include women at every juncture, especially in areas of armed conflict and war, where they are most at risk.
- Violence against Girls and Women: APublic Helath Priority
A website that addresses forms of gender-based violence and their consequences, effects on sexual and reproductive health decision-making, effects on the economics of reproductive health, and the policy reform process.
- Violence against Women and HIV/AIDS: Setting the Research Agenda
- Violence against Women Case Studies from Afghanistan
More than two decades of war, impoverishment, disintegration of the law and the systematic exclusion of women from social, economic and public life, have had a severe impact on Afghan women. Today, they face a complex web of imminent threats and opportunities as they seek to rebuild their role in society. UNIFEM established its presence in Afghanistan in early 2002 following the collapse of the Taliban. Since then UNIFEM has undergone a process of consultation with Afghan women to formulate its strategy for Afghanistan based on the needs identified by Afghan women and in the context of the country's history and culture.
- Violence against Women in Asian Societies
Text includes essays on women's rights in the context of human rights whidl addressing gender-based violence. Countries included in this book include Philippines, Burma, India, Cambodia, Malaysia and the more broad South Asian region.
- Violence against Women in Kenya
- Violence against Women: 10 Countries/Year 2003
Focuses on violence against women in the following countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Eritrea, Estonia, Mali, Russia, Turkey, United Kingdom
- Violence against Women: 10 Reports/Year 2002
Focuses on violence against women in the countries of Croatia, Czech Republic, Moldova, Poland, Spain, Sudan, Togo, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen.
- Violence against Women: A Briefing Document on International Issues and Responses
An updated and revised version of the original British Council Briefing Document published in 1999. This revised document is an introduction to definitions, scale and impact of violence against women, relationship with development and exploration of responses.
- Violence against Women: Do the Governments Care? NGO Fact Sheets on the State Repsonse
The VAW Monitoring Program of the Open Society Institute invited the 24 National VAW Monitors of StopVAW (NGOs working in the field of violence against women) to map the situation in their countries on violence against women, with special regard to the state response to it. The monitoring methodology was based on Recommendation (2002)5 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on the protection of women against violence. As a result of the monitoring, 22 Country Fact Sheets have been prepared. These Fact Sheets issue clear recommendations to governments, serving as effective tools for advocacy at national and international levels. Countries profiled include: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia/Hercegovinia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine.
- Violence and Discrimination: Voices of Young People: Girls about Girls
This briefing paper is not meant to be an analytic or technical paper or to advocate for specific recommendations. Its aim is to share with you the perspective and opinions of children and young people on the issues of violence and discrimination against girls. The text presents young people's ides on issues of protection, vulnerable situations, empowerment and institutional arrangements.
- Violence: A Reader
- Voices from the Field: About Prosecution of Sexualised Violence in an International Context
This report is a summary of a seminar held in Stockholm in October 2003 and shows how women subjected to sexualised violence during conflict are treated as witnesses within international criminal proceedings such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The report highlights womens need to come to terms with the past in order to continue their lives and the importance of bringing those responsible to justice. It concludes with a number of priorities and recommendations directed at authorities, institutions and organisations that come into contact with women who are subjected to sexualised violence during conflict.
- Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania
Covers the legal systems within the aforementioned countries as they pertain to women's rights. Chapter 2 focuses on violence against women, while other chapters address HIV/AIDS and women's reproductive health, women's rights within the family, and women's economic empowerment.
- War is Not Over with the Last Bullett- Overcoming Obstacles in the Healing Process for Women in Bosnia-Hercegovinia, The
This report is a study of the psychosocial work being carried out at womens centres in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. More than 200 women were interviewed about their health and financial status five years after the end of the Balkan war. The study shows how psychosocial support groups have influenced women in a positive manner and improved their lives through giving them the ability to process what they have been through and improve their self-esteem. The report highlights the connection between integrating women into all parts of the rebuilding process and their chances of healing.
- We Can Do Better Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes of Sexual Violence
Paper presented at the Colloquium of Prosecutors of International Criminal Tribunals in Arusha, Tanzania, November 25-27, 2004. Lists steps that can provide a model of best practices to international prosecutors and investigators.
- What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations
What happens to women whose lives are transformed by human rights violations? What happens to the voices of victimized women once they have their day in court or in front of a truth commission? Women face a double marginalization under authoritarian regimes and during and after violent conflicts. Nonetheless, reparations programs are rarely designed to address the needs of women victims. What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations, argues for the introduction of a gender dimension into reparations programs. The volume explores gender and reparations policies in Guatemala, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Timor-Leste.
- What's So Terrible about Rape? and Other Attitudes at the United Nations
It should be underscored that refugee and internally displaced women are among the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in the world. Having been forced from their homes by armed conflict and serious human rights abuses, and in some cases with nothing but the clothes on their back, they turn to the United Nations for support. How the staff responds to their needs for protection and assistance in large measure determines their well-being and sometimes even their survival.
- Where Are All the Women? UN Security Resolution 1325: Gender Perspectives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Isha LIsha, Israels oldest grassroots feminist center, and Kayan, a feminist organization established by Israeli Palestinian women, organized the first national conference to discuss the relevance of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Along with demanding an increased representation of women at all decision-making levels, Resolution 1325 states that women play an important role in conflict prevention. Recognizing the importance of protection, special needs and human rights of women and children in conflict situations, it calls on all parties to armed conflict to take special measures to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, particularly rape.
- Who's Making Policy? What Difference Does It Make? An international conference on gender-inclusive decision making for peace and justice
An international working conference Whos making policy? What difference does it make? was co-convened by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) at the University of San Diego to review this crisis of omissions from decision- making tables. Women and men scholars, practitioners and students from diverse sectors of society came together. They were asked how to further cultivate the gender-inclusive successes they are observing, as well as how to overcome the roadblocks they are encountering. The intent was to examine inclusion more closely and across a wider range of powerbrokers. Many questions underlie the creation of this conference. How effective are gender quotas in enabling women to influence public decision making to promote gender equality? How can peacekeeping processes put an end to the impunity with which sexual violence is used as a means of prosecuting warfare? How can civilian control over the military be asserted in security sector reform processes so that security institutions understand their role to include making public and private life safe for women? Must womens human rights be a bargaining chip that is traded away in exchange for the compliance of belligerent parties to peace accords? What paths might the worlds religious leaders take if their decision-making chambers were gender inclusive? What would corporate board policies be in conflict and post-conflict situations if women survivors had a say in the direction of reconstruction priorities? Are gender-sensitive men ready to stand up for accountability and fairness? Some of these questions were given serious thought and reflection at the conference, as you will find in the report.
- Women and Conflict: An Introductory Guide for Programming
This introductory guide describes the ways in which conflict and fragility may increase gender inequities and suggests programming approaches that address these issues while building on the strengths of women. With this guide, DCHA/CMM aims to both raise awareness among USAID Mission employees of issues surrounding women and conflict, and to assist USAID by integrating conflict and gender concerns.
- Women and Displacement: bearing the burden
Women bear the brunt of the burden of displacement, having to strike a delicate balance between the risks they run in often hostile environments and the imperative to provide for the immediate needs of the family. This gallery of photos provides a glimpse of contexts from around the world in which the ICRC is active and in which courageous women come together in their struggle to survive in sometimes impossibly difficult environments.
- Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis
This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse it cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights. Noting that half of all people infected with HIV are women, the report documents the devastating and often invisible impact of AIDS on women and girls and highlights the ways discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence help fuel the epidemic.
- Women as Participants and Victims of Conflict
This paper analyses the issue of women and conflicts. It looks at women as victims of violence, and also as active participants in wars and conflict situations. The author also points out that womens issues and rights are usually ignored in conflict situations, and in the context of post-conflict rebuilding of peace.
- Women for Afghan Women
Women for Afghan Women (WAW) is an organization of Afghan and non-Afghan women from the New York area who are committed to ensuring the human rights of Afghan women.
- Women for Women International
Women for Women International mobilizes women to change their lives by bringing a holistic approach to addressing the unique needs of women in conflict and post-conflict environments. We begin by working with women who may have lost everything in conflict and often have nowhere else to turn. Participation in our one-year program launches women on a journey from victim to survivor to active citizen. We identify services to support graduates of the program as they continue to strive for greater social, economic and political participation in their communities.
- Women for Women's Human Rights- New Ways
WWHR NEW WAYS, is an autonomous womens NGO founded in 1993 and based in Turkey, works toward the promotion of womens human rights on the national, regional and international levels and the active participation of women in processes of social change as equal citizens and free individuals. Website available in English and Turkish.
- Women in an Insecure World: Violence against Women- Facts, Figures and Analysis
Women in an Insecure World takes stock of the scope and magnitude of violence experienced by women. It highlights the active role women can have in peacemaking and post-conflict reconstruction. For what makes womens role in combating violence indispensable is that they demonstrate the capability of overcoming the trauma of violent acts, to survive and help in the survival of others, and to contribute actively to building peace. The book provides analytical data and statistics, legal documents and policy recommendations complemented by feature stories and illustrat
- Women Living under Muslim Laws
Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.
- Women Testify: A Planning Guide for Popular Tribunals and Hearings
This document draws on the Center for Womens Global Leaderships experiences of organizing womens human rights tribunals and hearings over the past decade.
- Women's empowerment base: Gendering men, shared concern
On the Internet an increasing number of sites reflects the importance of men's roles in an "engendered" development. Three focal areas can be recognized: - the promotion of gender equality in all spheres of society requires gendering men - to make them aware of the present patriarchal structures and to get them to realize the advantages for both men and women of gender equality. - the involvement of men is of great concern for many organizations working to promote reproductive health and rights. - gender-based violence is recognized as a major public health concern and many men's groups are working actively to influence attitudes and counteract abusive behavior towards women.
- Women's Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan: A Population-Based Assessment
This report contains a groundbreaking survey of over 1,000 Afghan women and men about their attitudes and experiences regarding the health and human rights of Afghan women. The report reveals that an overwhelming majority of Afghan women and men do not support Taliban policies and although they experience enormous physical and mental suffering, they also strongly support basic human rights and freedoms. The survey covers Afghans' attitudes on women's rights to education and work opportunities, freedom of expression, participation in government and legal protection for their human rights. It also addresses the extent to which Afghans perceive the Taliban to be impeding the health and development of their country.
- Women's Human Rights Net
Great information on women's rights issues and advocacy, with additional resources and links.
- Women's Human Rights Resource Programme (Bora Laskin Law Library)
Legal documents; journal articles, some with full-text links.
- Women's rights in conflict situations bibliography
Available in French and English.
- Women's UN Report Program and Network
The Women's UN Report Program & Network (WUNRN) is a non-governmental organization to implement the conclusions and recommendations of a United Nations Study on Freedom of Religion of Belief and the Status of Women From the Viewpoint of Religion and Traditions (E/CN.4/2002/73/Add.2). This study is a major, universal, comprehensive U.N. approach to intolerance and discrimination against women based on religion and traditions.
- Women, Ink
A project of the International Women's Tribune Centre that markets and distributes books on women and development with a focus on the perspectives of women from the Global South.
- Women, violence and health
- Women, War and Peace: The Independent Experts' Assessment on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Women and Womens Role in Peace-building
This independent assessment examines the impact of armed conflict on women and womens role in peace-building and provides key recommendations that focus on finding ways to protect and empower women for UN agencies and the wider international community.
- Women, War, Peace
- Women2000: Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict: United Nations Response
Many of the steps taken to address sexual violence against women during armed conflict have occurred within the framework of the United Nations. This issue of Women2000 looks at developments from the early 1990s, when the international community began to recognize the human rights violations committed against women in situations of armed conflict, and the manner in which the issue has been approached by the United Nations and NGOs worldwide. It also addresses factors affecting the response to sexual violence during armed conflict, and offers recommendations for moving forward.
- Working with Men on Gender, Sexuality, Violence and Health (Trainers' Manual)
The purpose of this Manual is to serve as a resource for those working with men and youth (boys) around issues of Citizenship, Rights, Gender, Health, Sexuality and Violence. While the contents are guided by a perspective of social justice and equity, there is an attempt to be 'male centered' in approach.
- World Health Organization (WHO)
Extensive bibliographic database for female genital mutilation. Hundreds of entries, covering all regions of the world.
- World Organization against Torture
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is the worlds largest coalition of non-governmental organisations fighting against arbitrary detention, torture, summary and extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances and other forms of violence. Its global network comprises nearly 300 local, national and regional organisations, which share the common goal of eradicating such practices and enabling the respect of human rights for all. Information available in English, French and Spanish.
- World Report on Violence and Health
The World report on violence and health is the first comprehensive review of the problem of violence on a global scale what it is, whom it affects and what can be done about it. Three years in the making, the report benefited from the participation of over 160 experts from around the world, receiving both peer-review from scientists and contributions and comments from representatives of all the worlds regions. Additionally available in Arabic, Finish, French, Russian, and Spanish.
- World's Women 2005, The
This report uniquely focuses on national reporting of sex disaggregated statistics in such areas as demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, poverty, human rights and decision-making.
- Young Men and the Construction of Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict and Violence
The authors carried out an extensive literature review, identified promising programs applying a gender perspective to work with young men, carried out 50 informant interviews with staff working with young men in Botswana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Uganda, and 23 focus group discussions and interviews with young men in Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda.
