Protection & Access to Justice
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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
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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…
Gender Equality Is Central to Effective Climate Action
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As the nations of the world meet in Paris to address climate change, it is critical that women play a central role in these historic…
Getting to the Root of Gender Equal Land Governance
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While there is international agreement that we need gender equality in land ownership – achieving this in practice is more complex.
Women face a number of…
Amazon Women on the Front Lines: The Waorani
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Meet the Waorani of the Ecuadorian Amazon. They are fighting for traditional life and championing alternatives to threats to their ancestral territory—one of the wildest,…
Challenges After Conflict: Regional Consultation on Resolution 1325
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Resolution 1325 is not just a tool which can be used to protect women and sustain peace. It is also a testament to strong women…
Protecting & Empowering Women & Girls in Situations of Crisis & Conflict
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Since the mid-1990s, there have been significant increases in the recorded number of all disasters and in deaths resulting from those disasters, especially in low-income…
UN Report Highlights Women’s Roles in Natural Resource Management During and After Conflict
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It’s been 14 years since the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1325 acknowledging women as important agents of change in recovery from conflict and peacebuilding…
UN Security Council Resolution 2242 (2015)
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Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960…
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: General Recommendation No. 33 on Women’s Access to Justice
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The right to access to justice for women is essential to the realization of all the rights protected under the Convention on the Elimination of…
Text and context: Evaluating peace agreements for their 'gender perspective'
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Since approximately 1990, peace processes involving the negotiation of formal peace agreements between the protagonists to conflict have become a predominant way of ending violent…
Protected Rather Than Protracted: Strengthening Displaced Persons in Peace Processes
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This paper reviews the current state of the art on the return of displaced persons as a durable solution for long-term displacement situations. It outlines…
Women and Climate Change: Impact and Agency in Human Rights, Security, and Economic Development
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This report comes at an important time of international observance when new commitments to action will be made, coinciding not only with the fifteenth anniversaries…
Weather Shocks and Violence against Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
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This study uses variation in rainfall to study how extreme shocks to income affect intimate partner violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that women experiencing…
Women's Land Rights and Africa's Development Conundrum- Which Way Forward?
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How can African countries use land policies to ensure agricultural development and inclusive growth? Particularly in countries which are dominated by patriarchal land ownership systems?…
Afghanistan’s Mining Industry, Crucial for Economy, Holds Risks for Women
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As Afghanistan attempts to develop its economy by attracting investment to its mining sector, the already daunting conditions for women in rural areas could worsen…
Voices from Nepal: Promoting Women's Climate Leadership
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The magnitude of the problem of climate change and environmental degradation in a mountainous and developing country like Nepal is very alarming.
Rapid population growth and…
Resources and Resourcefulness: Roles, Opportunities and Risks for Women Working at Artisanal Mines in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Two dominant narratives have characterized the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): (1) the horrific abuse of women through sexual violence and…
UN Security Council Resolution 2122 (2013)
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Reaffirming its commitment to the continuing and full implementation, in a mutually reinforcing manner, of resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960…
Women and Natural Resources: Unlocking the Peacebuilding Potential
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This report focuses on the relationship between women and natural resources in conflict-affected settings, and discusses how the management of natural resources can be used…