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GBV Biography: Prevention
- Abandoning female genital cutting: Prevalence, attitudes and efforts to end the practice
This 34-page report examines survey data on female genital cutting from nine countries (Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic (CAR), Egypt, Eritrea, Kenya, Mali, Sudan, Tanzania, and Yemen) and discusses approaches for encouraging communities to abandon genital cutting. The author finds reports that in some countries there is a striking contrast between high prevalence of genital cutting and low approval for the practice and that this gap between practice and attitudes may provide opportunities for intervention, especially in Burkina Faso, CAR, Eritrea, and Kenya. Conversely, the high prevalence and persistent strong approval for FGC in other countries like Egypt, Mali and Sudan may require different interventions.
- Action Plan for Sida's Work against Gender-Based Violence 2008-2010
The overall objective of Sida's action plan is to contribute to a reduction of gender-based violence and to promote the rights and the economic and political empowerment of those subject to gender-based violence- mainly women and girls- in Sida's partner countries and in humanitarian assistance.
- Addressing Sexual Violence in Humanitarian Emergencies
Sexual violence is a by-product of conflict commonly seen, but poorly addresses, in humanitarian emergencies. Repotrs reveal that extraordinary numbers of women and girls suffer physical, psychological, and social consequences of sexual violence durign conflict, when fleeing conflict, and during displacement. All sectors of the humanitarian cpmmunity have a role to play in the prevention of and response to sexual violence.
- Advancing commitments: Sexual and reproductive health presentation tools
A set of user-friendly multi-media tools designed for use in developing and giving presentations on a range of sexual and reproductive health and rights topics. The tools can be used to develop presentations for a range of audiences, from policymakers to community members to journalists. Advancing Commitments includes:
- 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
- Assessing the opportunity for sexual violence against women and children in refugee camps
This article focuses on protecting women and children in refugee camps from all forms of sexual violence committed by male offenders. The authors provide a pilot assessment and planning tool to address sexual or physical violence, exploitation, and discrimination among refugees. Combined, these compose one step in what must be a coordinated effort to resolve this multi-faceted international problem.
- Beyond the Numbers: Reviewing maternal deaths and complications to make pregnancy safer
Every year, some eight million women suffer pregnancy-related complications and over a half million die. Most of the deaths can be averted even where resources are limited but, in order to do so, the right kind of imformation is needed upon which to base actions. This text presents ways of generating this kind of information. The approaches described go beyond just counting deaths to developing an understanding of why they happened and how they can be averted.
- 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: Cutting Edge Packs (Various Topics)
Written and produced in collaboration with partners, Cutting Edge Packs provide accessible overviews of the latest thinking on a gender theme and summaries of the most useful resources. Each pack includes an Overview Report, a Supporting Resources Collection and a copy of Gender and Development In Brief.
- 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.
- Challenges and Good Practices in Support of Women in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations
This report summarizes views on assisting displaced women in conflict and post-conflict situations as presented at the UNFPA Expert Meeting in Tunisia. The first goal of the meeting was to bridge the gap between knowledge and policies regarding women's protection needs -- or gender-specific protection issues. The second goal was to identify specific means for the integration of emergency-related programming into the mainstream of UNFPA work.
- Changing a Harmful Social Convention: Femal Genital Mutilation/Cutting
The text presents strategies to support communities to abandon FGM.
- Checklist for Action: Prevention and Response for Gender-Based Violence in Displaced Settings
- Determination of the prevalence of gender-based violence among conflict-affected populations in East Timor, A
The Reproductive Health Response in Conflict (RHRC) Consortium designed a standardised questionnaire to measure gender-based violence (GBV) prevalence in conflict-affected settings. A preliminary field test was undertaken July-August 2002 in one urban and one rural district in East Timor to assess the prevalence of GBV among women 18-49 years of age during and after conflict. The field test stimulated and informed additional research in East Timor, and the complementary findings of these research initiatives continue to be used to develop local policies and programming to prevent and address GBV.
- Displaced and Desperate: Assessment of Reproductive Health for Colombias Internally Displaced Persons
The assessment team found that IDPs suffer a critical lack of access to reproductive health care owing to a number of factors. Columbians' access to health care overall is faltering between national policy at the central level and services to te population at decentralized levels, leaving many Columbians, particularly IDPs, to fall through the cracks without health care.
- Displaced Women and Girls at Risk: Risk Factors, Protection Solutions and Resource Tools
This paper aims to clarify risks leading to displacement, risk factors during displacement and risks that inhibit safe and sustainable return. Additionally, the paper looks at protection solutions in the context of displacement and in situation of return. Finally, the paper presents tools for assessing risks and identifying good field practices that reduce the risks displaced and returnee women and girls confront.
- Do men matter? New horizons in gender and development
- Early marriages: child spouses
This digest looks at the reasons for the perpetuation of early marriage, and its possible increase in populations under stress. It also looks at the harmful impacts of the practice and offers positive guidelines to end the practice of early marriage.
- Educating men in South Africa on gender issues
The article discusses the PPASA Men as Partners Program (MAP) in South Africa, which provides community-based education to groups of m en. The MAP educational workshops explore gender issues and their relation to reproductive health, particularly HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence. The article examines the various strategies, successes, and challenges of the program, concluding with findings from a recent external evaluation which found that men participating in MAP workshops demonstrated positive changes in attitudes towards gender equity, violence and reproductive health.
- Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child
This report addresses issues related to the girl child, such as: protection of girls, girls in especially vulnerable situations, empowerment of girls, and institutional arrangements to accelerate elimination of discrimination and violence against the girl child.
- Emergency Obstetric Care: Critical Need among Popualtions Affected by Conflict
This report document the availability of obstetric care services in selected sites in nine countries. The purpose of this report is to provide organizations, donors and governments with summary information on the status of EmOC in the geographic locations covered by the assessments. In addition, this information may be used to guide assessments used to design and implement future EmOC programs. It may also be used as a tool to advocate for better quality life saving EmOC for conflict-affected women and girls.
- Emergency Obstetric Care: Project Impact Report
- Enhanced Committments to Women to Ensure Food Security (Policy Issues)
- Entering the Labyrinth: Coming to grips with gender war zones: The case of South Africa
South Africa has both one of the world's most progressive and humanitarian Constitutions, and the worst figures for gender and sexual violence for a country not at war. In fact, these figures suggest an unacknowledged gender civil war. This paper focuses on stories told about sexual violence and specifically rape in South African society that explain, endorse and perpetuate the problem. The author looks particularly closely at the treatment of the rapist: how he is either erased from these stories, making rape a perpetrator-less crime, or how he is demonized and turned into a monster no "normal" men can relate to or identify with.
- 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.
- Female genital mutilation: a matter of human rights - an advocates guide to action
This guide is intended for advocates working to eliminate the practice of FC/FGM. Included in this document is an explanation of how international law can be used as a framework for social justice, an overview of FC/FGM (history, cultural context and medical complications associated with the practice), discussion of governments' responsibilities under international law, recommendations for governments, and legal and political strategies for NGOs. Available in French and English. To order a bound copy, contact CRLP via email at publications@crlp.org, or call (917) 637-3600 and ask for publications. Cost is US$5.
- Femnet Training Manual on Gender-Based Violence
Gender-based violence has been recognised as a cross cutting issue affecting the lives of victims from a diversity of dimensions including health, economy, culture, psychology, education, livelihoods and political participation. In fact, violence against women and girls was chosen as one of the critical areas of action in the four countries, following the Beijing Conference. This presents a key opportunity for different players, including government agencies, NGOs, United Nations agencies and other institutions, to build an understanding on issues of violence and undertake activities to combat violence. Training is imperative to build this understanding and initiate or strengthen programmes combating violence.
- 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.
- Firewood, Violence Against Women, and Hard Choices in Kenya
This article describes the high rate of violence against Somali refugee women in Kenya that occurs when they leave the camps to search for firewood. During a one-month period there were 24 sexual assaults on women ranging from 10 years old to 50 years old. Many were gang raped. The women were also shot, beaten, knifed, severely beaten and robbed. The article also reports the results of a six-month survey, begun in February 1993, which showed that 192 cases of rape of Somali refugees were documented. Perpetrators are Somali refugees living in the camps, Kenyan bandits, and to a lesser extent, Somali militias who cross the border from Somalia on raids. UNHCR estimates that, because of the severe stigma attached to a women who has been raped, the actual figures could be 10 times greater that the number of reported rape cases. Often, women who are raped are divorced by their husbands and outcast from their families. Women may turn to prostitution in order to survive. Young girls who were virgins at the time of the rape have their legs tied together for days in the belief that it will restore the girl's virginity. The article continues on to outline a proposed program to cultivate trees in the community for firewood, and to provide counselors and medical and legal staff to aide women who have been sexually assaulted.
- Fuel Provision and Gender-based Violence: Fuel Efficiency as a Provention Strategy
- GBV Tools Manual: For assessment and program design, monitoring and evaluation in conflict affected settings
- Gender and armed conflicts: Challenges for decent work, gender equity and peace building agendas and programmes
This document attempts to provide an analytical synthesis of research and insights based upon country studies, undertaken by the ILO between 1996 and 2000. It has been prepared to guide policy formulation, effective pursuit of gender-sensitive programming, decent work and other activities, to stimulate and advance current debate on women and gender issues in the wake of conflict. The four post-conflict countries studies presented in the document were done in Mozambique, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Guatemala and Lebanon.
- 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 health Equity Resource Guide
The report includes topics on gender and conflict, post-conflict, and emergency and humanitarian assistance. Additional links to other reports include issues of gender, pertaining to economics, health, sectoral issue, concepts and methods, poverty, institutionalizing gender, as well as certain country profiles.
- 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. Volume I: Overview
Reports in this folder are available in PDF or Microsoft Word format, and include topics on gender and conflict, post-conflict, and emergency and humanitarian assistance. Additional links to other reports include issues of gender, pertaining to economics, health, sectoral issue, concepts and methods, poverty, institutionalizing gender, as well as certain country profiles.
- Gender-based Violence Research Initiatives in Refugee, Internally Displaced, and Post-Conflict Settings: Lessons Learned
- 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.
- Girl Child and Armed Conflict, The: Recognizing and addressing grave violations of girls' human rights
This paper documents and analyses the grave human rights violations girls endure during situations of armed conflict and offers recommendations on preventing and/or addressing those harms. The paper begins by offering a concise overview of current trends in armed conflict and the impact of armed conflict on children. It discusses existing international initiatives that identify grave and systematic violations against girls during armed conflict and reviews the most pertinent international legal standards relating to these violations.
- Giving men choices: A Rozan project with the police force in Pakistan
This working paper offers a comprehensive overview of an NGO-implemented project (Rozan, a local Islamabad, Pakistan-based NGO) to sensitize the police force to gender roles and gender-based violence. It gives a detailed description of the project
- Good Practices in Combating and Eliminating Violence against Women
This report of the expert group meeting gives a global picture of violence against women, highlights best practice and lays out recommendations in the areas of law, prevention and provision of services.
- 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.
- Guidelines for Gender-based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings: Focusing on Prevention of and Response to Sexual Violence in Emergencies
The guidelines outlined within this document are directed towards UN agencies, NGOs, community based organizations and government agencies for working with survivors of gender-based violence in a humanitarian setting. Additionally, the document outlines minimum multi-sectoral interventions to prevent and respond to sexual violence during the early phase of an emergency.
- 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.
- Involving Men As Partners in Reproductive Health: Lessons Learned From Turkey
- Lifesaving Reproductive Health Care in Chad: Ignored and Neglected
- Making a Difference: Strategic Communications to End Violence Against Women
"Making a Difference" is an indispensable tool for planning strategic communications to raise awareness about and combat gender-based violence. The toolkit was created to share the knowledge of the workshop series with women's organizations working to end violence against women around the world.
- Making a difference? Gender and participatory development
Drawing on empirical materials, this paper discusses the gender aspects of project planning and policy-making processes. The author states that in order to make a difference in communities, projects must rethink 'gender' and directly address issues of power and powerlessness. By offering examples of development projects around the world, the author analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of these projects from a gender perspective.
- Matrix for gender-based violence interventions in humanitarian settings - Focusing on prevention of and response to sexual violence in emergencies
This matrix for gender-based violence interventions in humanitarian settings focuses on the prevention of and response to sexual violence in emergencies.
- Men and Reproductive Health - Annotated Bibliography: Gender Based Violence
An annotated bibliography on men and gender-based violence, found on Reproductive Health Outlook, a website especially designed for reproductive health program managers and decision-makers working in developing countries and low-resource settings.
- Men, masculinities and development: Broadening our work towards gender equality
Paper presents a review of the meanings and uses of masculinity to catalyze thinking around these issues, to inspire new conversations and debate and to offer a conceptual backdrop for practitioners engaged in work with men.
- MInimum Initial Service Package (MISP) Fact Sheet
The MISP is a series of actions needed to respond to the reproductive health needs of populations in the early phase of a refugee situation (which may or may not be an emergency).
- Must Boys be Boys? Ending Sexual Abuse & Exploitation in UN Peacekeeping Missions
The text argues that a hyper-masculine culture has evolved within UN peacekeeping missions that breeds a tolerance for such extreme behaviors. The report calls on the UN to insure that the necessary funding and resources are made available to fully address the problem.
- 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.
- Overview of International Standards and Policy on Gender Violence and Refugees: Progress, Gaps and Continuing Challenges for NGO Advocacy and Campaigning
This presentation has two main aims. The first is to identify from the overview of developments some key observations of progress, including any changes in the way we conceive of the issue of gendered or gender-based violence. The second aim is to take note of continuing gaps in the protection regime and to question what role and responsibility NGOs have in highlighting or even filling those gaps. It is hoped that this will then lead to a fruitful discussion on what remains to be done and how we may coordinate our advocacy and campaigning actions to achieve further progress together. It should be pointed out that the focus of my presentation is on gendered violence against refugee women and girls only.
- Participatory monitoring: guidelines for practitioners in the fight against human trafficking
This document provides tools for monitoring projects that combat trafficking of women and children. The guidelines consist of three parts including a theoretical framework for participatory monitoring, a kit with eight different tools to be used to collect data as well as annexes with tips on how to run training workshops and analyse baseline data.
- Picturing a Life Free of Violence: Media and Communications Strategies to End Violence Against Women
This text showcases a wealth and variety of media and communications strategies and materials used around the world to end violence against women. A collaboration between UNIFEM and the Media Materials Clearinghouse of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the publication highlights materials and campaigns, providing descriptions of innovative communication methods specific to domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, harmful traditional practices, trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, and HIV/AIDS.
- Political connections: Men, gender and violence
Looks at the connections that we need to make between men, gender and violence in order to more clearly articulate men
- Practical Strategies for Involving Women as Well as Men in Water and Sanitation Activities
Offers strategies in how to involve women in water and sanitation activities, as well as in health education and human resource development.
- Rapid Assessment of Youth-Friendly Reproductive Health Services, A
- Refugee Reproductive Health
This site discusses how physical and social conditions affect the health of refugees and internally displaced populations, how basic reproductive health services can reduce mortality and morbidity during emergencies, and how comprehensive reproductive health services can meet the needs of refugees living in stable situations.
- Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations - An interagency field manual
This Inter-agency Field Manual on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations is the result of a collaborative effort of many UN agencies, governmental and non-governmental organizations and refugees themselves. Information from this Manual will be useful for professionals in the field who may shape and adapt the information to suit the particular circumstances and requirements of each refugee situation as it arises and evolves. The Field Manual will serve to assist workers to improve the health and well being of refugees and foster more responsive and appropriate actions in the field. The Field Manual includes the following chapters: fundamental principles, minimum initial service package, safe motherhood, sexual and gender-based violence, sexually transmitted diseases, family planning, other reproductive health concerns, reproductive health of young people, surveillance and monitoring, an legal considerations.
- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons ? Guidelines for Prevention and Response
These guidelines are intended to be used by the staff of UNHCR, UNagencies, inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations and host government agencies who provide protection and assistance to refugees and persons of concern to UNHCR. They are also intended to guide activities initiated by refugee communities themselves to prevent and address the problem. They examine the root causes of and factors contributing to sexual and gender-based violence and suggest practical actions to be taken to help prevent and respond to this kind of violence. They also emphasize the importance of involving the refugee community, especially women and girls, in planning, implementing and evaluating activities designed to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence.
- 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 in Armed Conflict: Global Overview and Implications for the Security Sector
The report demonstrates the horrifying scope and magnitude of sexual violence in armed conflict. It brings to light sexual violence in the world's underreported conflicts, as well as in those countries where it is notoriously commonplace. The Global Overview profiles conflict-related sexual violence in fifty-one countries, throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. In the text, the authors propose various ways in which the security and justice sectors can improve or develop strategies to prevent and respond to sexual violence in armed conflict and post-conflict situations. It is a resource for security sector agencies, as well as for policymakers and researchers, civil society groups and humanitarian agencies that work with affected populations and security agencies.
- Sexual Violence in Refugee Crises: A Synopsis of the UNHCR Guidelines for Prevention and Response
- Sexual Violence Working Group: Resources 2003
Annotated bibliography on sexual violence including case studies, training materials, educational materials, and more. Extensive Spanish-language resources.
- 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.
- Still in Need: Reproductive Health Care for Afghan Refugees in Pakistan
This paper reveals that while isolated efforts have been made to improve the quantity and quality of reproductive health care for Afghan refugees in Pakistan, many programs are limited to traditional maternal and child health care services, and the quality of RH care is of significant concern.
- STIs and HIV/AIDS in conflict-affected settings: Identifying gaps
During civil strife and flight, displaced persons have an increased risk of contracting STIs and HIV due to a variety of factors. The disturbance of community and family life among displaced populations may disrupt social norms governing sexual behaviour. As a result, adolescents may begin sexual relations at an earlier age and be exposed to risks, such as having sexual intercourse without using a condom. Proximity to peacekeeping forces, military and police personnel population groups that have long been associated with higher rates of STIs facilitates the spread of HIV in refugee situations.
- Stop violence against women: How to use international criminal law to campaign for gender-sensitive law reform
- Swimming upstream: Looking for clues to prevent male violence in couple relationships
The article is based on research carried out by Puntos de Encuentro (Common Grounds) in Nicaragua, which aims to identify male fears and expectations in couple relationships with women and to identify the personal and social factors that influence men to be non-violent in couple relationships. The study was part of Puntos
- Theatre for development: a dynamic tool for change
Traditionally, the use of theatre in a development environment has involved performing plays with a strong social message, and little or no audience participation or discussion. More and more, the potential of theatre as a means of discussion and of exploring pertinent issues within a particular community is being realized, particularly in a country like Mozambique where there is a strong theatrical, dance and oral tradition. Theatre for Development (TfD) is an excellent means of creating a richer picture out of the issues presented. The distance that a reenactment provides allows for discussion of sensitive issues without community members feeling personally implicated.
- Trafficking in Women: The misery behind the fantasy: from poverty to sex slavery
This compilation of 'information sheets' and 'funding sheets' has been prepared to raise awareness and gives an overview of European strategies and actions. It covers elements common to various types of trafficking in human beings and concentrates on the issue of trafficking in women.
- Transforming Health Systems: Gender and Rights in Reproductive Health
Transforming Health Systems is a training curriculum on gender and rights in reproductive health that aims at helping course participants integrate the promotion of gender equity and reproductive rights into reproductive health policies, planning and programs. More information on this resource, the product of a collaborative effort between WHO, the South African Women's Health Project and the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, is available in pdf format at the above website, or email colombinim@who.int . Spanish and Mandarin translations are in process.
- Uncharted Passage - Girls' adolescence in the developing world, The
- Unsafe Schools: A Literature Review of School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Developing Countries
This report identifies, annotates, and synthesizes research studies and projects/interventions addressing primary and secondary school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV). It examines the prevalence of school-related gender-based violence in developing countries and provides a context for the subsequent discussion of the consequences of school-related gender-based violence for the health and educational outcomes for students. Both programmatic and policy responses are reviewed and discussed.
- Untapped Potential: Adolescents affected by armed conflict -- A review of programs and policies
This report discusses achievements and gaps in international programming and policy formation affecting adolescents in armed conflict. Includes a very comprehensive annotated bibliography.
- Use of Rape as a Weapon of War in the Conflict in Darfur, Sudan, The
Rape as a weapon of war has a long history and only recently has been expressly punished under codified international law. The report that follows has relied on extensive interviews and review of the available published and grey literature to arrive at a qualitative assessment of four issues: the nature of the rapes that have recently and are now occurring in Darfur; the circumstances in which they have taken place; their utility in a war context and in the context of ethnic cleansing or genocide; the impact that these rapes are exacting upon the surviving non-Arab community of Darfur; and possibilities for mitigation and support that are now available to the international community, particularly the U.S. Government.
- Violence against Women: Effects on Reproductive Health
This Outlook issue focuses on the reproductive health consequences of violence against women. It provides examples from research and successful programs and explores how the health sector can take an active role in the prevention and treatment of violence against women.
- Weaving gender in disaster and refugee assistance: Report and field checklists
This document is offered as a contribution of the InterAction community to the evolution of new ways of working in the field, aimed at enabling both women and men to be full participants and full beneficiaries in humanitarian and refugee assistance.
- What is female empowerment?
The author's background as both researcher and activist informed this expression of need for a theoretical framework of female empowerment. The aim was to build a concept that was accessible to other activists and that could change the nature of interventions being made. The theoretical framework presented below should be related to a South Asian context.
- White Ribbon Campaign: Men working to end men's violence against women, The
Website contains informational materials for use in urging men to speak out on violence against women (i.e. posters, advocacy kit, steps to community organization).
- With an end in sight: Strategies from the UNIFEM Trust Fund to Eliminate Violence Against Women
This new UNIFEM publication demonstrates the power of collective action in ending violence against women. It highlights initiatives in seven countries and shows how women
- WITNESS
A New York-based organization that advances human rights advocacy through the use of video and communications technology. In partnership with NGOs and activists, WITNESS strengthens grassroots movements for change by providing video technology and assisting its partners to use video as evidence before courts, regional commissions and the United Nations, as a tool for public education, and as a deterrent to further abuse. Also gives local groups a global voice by distributing their video to the media and on the Internet and by helping to educate and activate an international audience around their causes.
- Women of the World: Laws and Policies Affecting their Reproductive Lives: South Asia
This text is the first extensive examination of laws and policies that influence womens reproductive health in five countries of the region - Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The report, which is based on three years of research, is the result of a collaborative partnership between the Center and leading nongovernmental organizations in the region.
- Women's Health in Crises
- Women's human rights step by step: a practical guide to using international human rights law and mechanisms to defend womens human rights
Instructions for ordering this publication can be found at the link above. This book is also available French.
- Women's rights to land, property and housing
This article focuses on the Inter-Regional Consultation on Women's Land and Property Rights During Situations of Conflict and Reconstruction hosted by the government of Rwanda in 1998. This is one of the international activities contributing to the increased attention given to women's rights to land, property and housing during conflict and reconstruction.
- Women, health and humanitarian aid in conflict
Discusses ways in which gender affects health, specifically how gender awareness is needed in humanitarian aid for refugees. The author gives examples of gender inequality leading to negative health outcomes, such as male feelings of demotion leading to drugs and alcohol leading to increased domestic violence; women forced into prostitution facing an increased risk of HIV/AIDS and violence, and how female-headed households with lack of protection are particularly vulnerable to violence.
- Women, Peace and Security (Conflict Trends, Issue 3/2003)
As steps are taken on the African continent to address the difficulties that women face in conflict situations, and to achieve the objective of increasing women's participation in peace processes, awareness needs to be raised on, firstly, why women are particularly at risk and the challenges they face on the continent, and secondly, what achievements have been made to mainstream gender at decision-making levels of sub-regional organizations. This special edition of Conflict Trends, on women, peace and security, seeks to illustrate and analyze these issues and stimulate debate on the African continent regarding the positive contribution that women make on peace and security issues.
- Women, Peace and Security: UNIFEM Supporting Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325
This text brings together UNIFEM's advocacy and action with the strength of women to redefine international frameworks and policies that will ensure that there is global commitment and realization of resolution 1325.
- 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.
- Working with the media: notes for refugee advocates
The author explores the profound influence of mass media, both on individual lives and on the ways that communities respond to refugees. As such, she argues, providers working with and for refugees and asylum seekers cannot ignore this influence. When governments use the media to publicize their policy decisions, this is even more significant. She poses that the media has become a maze that those in the community sector must learn to negotiate, as its effects can be both beneficial as well as damaging.
- Zero Tolerance: Stop the Violence against Women and Children, Stop HIV/AIDS
Violence is linked to HIV.For more than two decades, women's advocacy organizations have been calling for action on violence against women. The call for action to stop violence against children is more recent but is beginning to be heard. Yet, despite clear evidence that successful strategies exist, international donor countries have been far too slow to react, multilateral funding mechanisms have been left starved of resources, and no global plan has been created. This document describes a framework for a comprehensive response to violence against women and children, including the resources that would be needed, political and financial, for full implementation.
