Protection & Access to Justice
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Legacies of Violence and the Unfinished Past: Women in Post-Demobilization Colombia and Guatemala
Briefs & Development
This article examines the historically grounded social acceptance of impunity and the role of unwanted actors in peace and transitional processes. The article argues from…
Gender Equality as an Accelerator for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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Evidence collected in this paper shows that gender equality is critical to achieving a wide range of objectives pertaining to sustainable development, from promoting economic…
A Practitioner’s Toolkit on Women’s Access to Justice Programming: The Theory and Practice of Women’s Access to Justice Programming
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Women who seek justice are confronted by a complex landscape of laws, systems and institutions. This Module brings together the knowledge and tools that practitioners…
Series on inclusive peace processes
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Too often, formal peace negotiations approach women’s meaningful participation and gender equality as a secondary and apolitical concern to “stopping the war”. Arguments are often…
Conflict Minerals and Sexual Violence in Central Africa: Troubling Research
Briefs & Development
This paper explores “conflict mining-related sexual violence” as a type of conflict sexual violence, tracing the dynamic process by which this category is defined in…
Women and Land in the Muslim World
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Access to land is a key element that allows women and men to fully play their role in building peaceful, stable and prosperous societies and…
DRC: Congolese Women Fight ‘Invisible Hands’ of Exploitation
International
Marie-Claude Manga, social worker, pastor and fighter for the rights of oppressed women, brought the story of the plight of women in her original home,…
Sudan/South Sudan: Sudan to Gain Influence over South Sudan in Oil Deal
International
Six years after South Sudan seceded from Sudan, Sudan may regain some of its influence over the south’s oil industry after the two countries agreed…
Reforming Women's Property Rights in Afghanistan
Blog
On paper, the law is clear: men and women enjoy equal property rights under Afghanistan's 2004 Constitution. But on-the-ground reality says otherwise as a combination…
Inside Conflict: What Does Research Reveal About Women's Rights and Changing Gender Roles in Yemen?
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Until the acceleration of violence in 2015, women in Yemen were making some headway in challenging a system that largely excludes them from public life.…
How Men Can Promote Gender-Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
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Gender’s importance and the vital roles played by women in all facets of development, humanitarian aid, and disaster response are increasingly recognized. But recognition is…
Understanding Gender, Conflict and the Environment
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Last year’s landmark UNEA-2 resolution on conflict and the environment, the most significant of its kind since 1992, was the product of tough negotiations. Fortunately…
LDC Women in World Climate Talks: Building a Cohort of Champions
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The upcoming United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn will include a workshop on 10-11 May to develop elements of a 'Gender…
National Monitoring and Review of the Sustainable Development Goals and Development Justice
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Since 2012, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) has been advocating for a transformative development framework that addresses the structural causes of…
In the Law & on the Land: Finding the Female Farmer in Myanmar's National Land Use Policy
Briefs & Development
This paper draws upon 12 months of activist research in Myanmar to examine how bureaucrats, activists, international development experts and rural women represented the female…
The Impact of Mines and Explosive Remnants of War on Gender Groups
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There is an increasing recognition in the international community that different gender groups are affected differently by the threat posed by the presence of mines/ERWs…
Gendering Resilience: Myths and Stereotypes in the Discourse on Climate-induced Migration
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The research article critically investigates recent European policy proposals that promote migration as an adaptation strategy to increase the resilience of communities vulnerable to the…
Land Tenure in South Sudan: Does It Promote Climate Change Resilience?
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Land was a key driver of the war between Khartoum and Southern Sudan. The Khartoum government had placed the land and its resources under the…
Structural Change and Wife Abuse: A Disaggregated Study of Mineral Mining and Domestic Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1999–2013
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Mineral mining may be a mixed blessing for local communities. On the one hand, extractive industries can be a positive economic driver, generating considerable revenues,…
Women's Leadership: Critical to Securing the Paris Agreement; Essential to Fulfilling It
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The Paris Agreement on climate change wouldn’t be what it is today without action from strong women from around the world. Christiana Figueres, the UNFCCC…
Women Pay Heavier Price for Big Dams
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Large dams are displacing thousands of people in West Africa in societies where women traditionally have few legal or customary rights to the natural resources…
Women and Sustainable Development Goals
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On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the agreed framework for international development. It is…
Indigenous women and the women, peace and security agenda
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On 30 October 2000, the Security Council adopted resolution 1325 on women, peace and security—the first resolution to link women’s experiences of conflict to the…
A Guide to Protection and Promotion of Women’s HLP Rights in the Gaza Strip
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To improve the development of best practices for strengthening community-based approaches, Norwegian Refugee Council’s Information, Counselling and Legal Assistance (ICLA) program in Gaza commissioned production…
Building Back Better or Restoring Inequalities? Gender and Conflict Sensitivity in the Response to Nepal’s 2015 Earthquakes
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This report is based on research into the gender dimensions of humanitarian interventions in post-conflict settings from a peacebuilding perspective, using the 2015 earthquakes in…
The Gendered Construction of Reparations: An Exploration of Women's Exclusion from the Niger Delta Reintegration Processes
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The Niger Delta is located in the South-south region of Nigeria. Oil exploration and exploitation by the multinational oil companies led to environmental degradation. The…
Artisanal Mining, Conflict, and Sexual Violence in Eastern DRC
Briefs & Development
The natural resource abundance of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has featured in policy debates as the prime example of ‘conflict minerals’ driving…
Indigenous Women & the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
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Indigenous women have made remarkable contributions to women, peace and security agenda, and have pioneered innovative approaches to conflict prevention and justice. Indigenous women's experiences…
Decision-Making and Joint Control Rights over Land in Rwanda
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This report explores and analyses community perceptions of the obstacles facing women’s participation in decision-making about jointly held land. It also examines the factors that…
Resources and Resourcefulness: Gender, Conflict, and Artisanal Mining Communities in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Recent studies in the DRC tend to focus on human rights abuses or on the status of women, however few investigations examine the link between…