The Impact Of Conflict On Women And Girls In West And Central Africa And The Unicef Response

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Publisher : UNICEF
ISBN 13 : 9280638653
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Conflict on Women and Girls in West and Central Africa and the UNICEF Response written by and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estudio sobre las mujeres y niñas afectadas por la guerra en África central y occidental. También se resaltan programas innovadores llevados a cabo por UNICEF para paliar los efectos de los numerosos conflictos bélicos que asolan esta región.

Author : Sherrill Whittington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789280638653
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Conflict on Women and Girls in West and Central Africa and the UNICEF Response written by Sherrill Whittington and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicts are characterized by a total breakdown of law, security and community structures, with gross human rights violations perpetrated against civilian populations. The most vulnerable are women and children. Upholding their rights during times of crisis is fundamental to UNICEF's work. During and after conflicts and crises UNICEF's mission is to provide special protection for the most disadvantaged children --those who are victims of war, disasters, extreme poverty, all forms of violence and exploitation and those with disabilities. During an emergency, UNICEF focuses on meeting the basic needs of women and children, protecting their fundamental rights and preventing violations. ... The persistence of grossly unequal gender relations and wide gender gaps in the social, economic, political and civic spheres constitutes a denial of the individual human rights of girls and women and threatens social cohesion. Progress in realizing the rights of children, especially girls, can help break the pattern of discrimination against women. ... UNICEF's strategic plan for 2002-2005 states that "UNICEF will expose and help rectify disparities and all forms of discrimination against children and women. It will identify key issues of exclusion and disparity as central concerns for advocacy and policy dialogues ... UNICEF interventions will focus on disadvantaged populations and children and adolescents at risk ... Gender concerns will be mainstreamed throughout the country programmes with a focus on activities to empower girls and women." Discrimination based on race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability, birth or other status makes children more vulnerable to violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.

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Publisher : UNICEF
ISBN 13 : 9280645129
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action written by and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rain Liivoja
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136028803
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict written by Rain Liivoja and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law of armed conflict is a key element of the global legal order yet it finds itself in a state of flux created by the changing nature of warfare and the influences of other branches of international law. The Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict provides a unique perspective on the field covering all the key aspects of the law as well as identifying developing and often contentious areas of interest. The handbook will feature original pieces by international experts in the field, including academics, staff of relevant NGOs and (former) members of the armed forces. Made up of six parts in order to offer a comprehensive overview of the field, the structure of the handbook is as follows: Part I: Fundamentals Part II: Principle of distinction Part III: Means and methods of warfare Part IV: Special protection regimes Part V: Compliance and enforcement Part VI: Some contemporary issues Throughout the book, attention is paid to non-international conflicts as well as international conflicts with acknowledgement of the differences. The contributors also consider the relationship between the law of armed conflict and human rights law, looking at how the various rules and principles of human rights law interact with specific rules and principles of international humanitarian law in particular circumstances. The Routledge Handbook of the Law of Armed Conflict provides a fresh take on the contemporary laws of war and is written for advanced level students, academics, researchers, NGOs and policy-makers with an interest in the field.

Author : Chris Coulter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457246
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers written by Chris Coulter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone.When these girls and women returned to their home villages after the cessation of hostilities, their families and peers viewed them with skepticism and fear, while humanitarian organizations saw them primarily as victims. Neither view was particularly helpful in helping them resume normal lives after the war. Offering lessons for policymakers, practitioners, and activists, Coulter shows how prevailing notions of gender, both in home communities and among NGO workers, led, for instance, to women who had taken part in armed conflict being bypassed in the demilitarization and demobilization processes carried out by the international community in the wake of the war. Many of these women found it extremely difficult to return to their families, and, without institutional support, some were forced to turn to prostitution to eke out a living.Coulter weaves several themes through the work, including the nature of gender roles in war, livelihood options in war and peace, and how war and postwar experiences affect social and kinship relations.

Author : Joyce P. Kaufman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134772750
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation written by Joyce P. Kaufman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of formal hostilities in any given conflict provides an opportunity to transform society in order to secure a stable peace. This book builds on the existing feminist international relations literature as well as lessons of past cases that reinforce the importance of including women in the post-conflict transition process, and are important to our general understanding of gender relations in the conflict and post-conflict periods. Post-conflict transformation processes, including disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs, transitional justice mechanisms, reconciliation measures, and legal and political reforms, which emerge after the formal hostilities end demonstrate that war and peace impact, and are impacted by, women and men differently. By drawing on a strong theoretical framework and a number of cases, this volume provides important insight into questions pertaining to the end of conflict and the challenges inherent in the post-conflict transition period that are relevant to students and practitioners alike.

Author : Laura Sjoberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135240264
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender and International Security written by Laura Sjoberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines the relationship between gender and international security, analyzing and critiquing international security theory and practice from a gendered perspective. Gender issues have an important place in the international security landscape, but have been neglected both in the theory and practice of international security. The passage and implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (on Security Council operations), the integration of gender concerns into peacekeeping, the management of refugees, post-conflict disarmament and reintegration and protection for non-combatants in times of war shows the increasing importance of gender sensitivity for actors on all fronts in global security. This book aims to improve the quality and quantity of conversations between feminist security studies and security studies more generally, in order to demonstrate the importance of gender analysis to the study of international security, and to expand the feminist research program in Security Studies. The chapters included in this book not only challenge the assumed irrelevance of gender, they argue that gender is not a subsection of security studies to be compartmentalized or briefly considered as a side issue. Rather, the contributors argue that gender is conceptually, empirically, and normatively essential to studying international security. They do so by critiquing and reconstructing key concepts of and theories in international security, by looking for the increasingly complex roles women play as security actors, and by looking at various contemporary security issues through gendered lenses. Together, these chapters make the case that accurate, rigorous, and ethical scholarship of international security cannot be produced without taking account of women’s presence in or the gendering of world politics. This book will be of interest to all students of critical security studies, gender studies and International Relations in general. Laura Sjoberg is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. She has a Phd in International Relations and Gender Studies from the University of Southern California and is the author of Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq (2006) and, with Caron Gentry, Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Women's Violence in Global Politics (2007)

Author : George Ulrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317018907
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer written by George Ulrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The important and groundbreaking volume, The Professional Identity of the Human Rights Field Officer, completes the study of human rights field work begun in the earlier The Human Rights Field Operation: Law Theory and Practice (2007: Ashgate). Building on the critique of the field’s historical development and current situation featured in the earlier volume, O’Flaherty, Ulrich and their fellow contributors focus on the specific responsibilities of the individual human rights officer, and concentrate on vital issues of professionalism beyond the confines of any specific organization. Their expansion of the analysis in the case studies section of the first volume has resulted in an up to date global edition of significant academic interest to anyone within the field of human rights law.

Author : Susan Forbes Martin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048128250
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Migration, and Conflict written by Susan Forbes Martin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An estimated 35 million people worldwide are displaced by conflict, and most of them are women and children. During their time away from their homes and communities, these women and their children are subjected to a horrifying array of misfortune, including privations of every kind, sexual assaults, disease, imprisonment, unwanted pregnancies, severe psychological trauma, and, upon return or resettlement, social disapproval and isolation. Written by the world’s leading scholars and practitioners, this unique collection brings these problems - and potential solutions - into sharp focus. Based on extensive field research and a broad knowledge of other studies of the challenges facing women who are forced from their homes and homelands by conflict, this book offers in-depth understanding and problem-solving ideas. Derived from a project to advise U.N. agencies, it speaks to a broad array of students, scholars, NGOs, policymakers, government officials, and international organizations.

Author : Julia Muraszkiewicz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030408388
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Trafficking in Conflict written by Julia Muraszkiewicz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book ​examines the different forms of human trafficking that manifest in conflict and post-conflict settings and considers how the military may help to address or even facilitate it. It explores how conflict can facilitate human trafficking, how it can manifest through a variety of case studies, followed by a discussion of the reasons why the military should include a stronger consideration of human trafficking within their strategic planning given the multiple scenarios in which military forces come into contact with victims of human trafficking, and how this ought to be done. Human Trafficking in Conflict draws on the expertise of scholars and practitioners to develop the existing conversations and to offer multiple perspectives. It includes a discussion of existing frameworks and perspectives including legal and policy, and whether they are configured to address human trafficking in conflict.