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16 Days of Action Against Gender-Based Violence: Additional Resources

Afghanistan 2001: young girl
11/22/2005

  Refugees International joins the 16 Days of Action Against Gender-Based Violence to focus attention on how the effects of displacement are experienced differently by men and women. RI is dedicated to building greater awareness of GBV and incorporates a gender analysis of the situation of all displaced people and peacekeepers. 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Butegwa, Florence, Stella N. Mukasa and Susan Mogere.  (1995)  Human Rights of Women in Conflict Situations, Harare, Zimbabwe:  Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF).  

Family Violence Prevention Fund and Center for Women’s Global Leadership.  (1997) Migrant Women’s Human Rights in G-7 Countries: Organizing Strategies, New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Center for Women’s Global Leadership.   

Finney Hayward, Ruth (2000) Breaking the Earthenware Jar: Lessons from South Asia to End Violence against Women and Girls, New York, NY USA: United Children’s Fund (UNICEF). 

International Women’s Tribune Centre.  (1998) Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important UN Treaties on Women's Human Rights, New York, NY, USA: International Women’s Tribune Centre (IWTC).  Contact: Women, Ink.

Mertus, Julie with Mallika Dutt and Nancy Flowers.  (1999)  Local Action/ Global Change: Learning About the Human Rights of Women and Girls, New Brunswick, NJ, USA: Center for Women’s Global Leadership and New York, NY, USA: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).  Contact: Women, Ink.

Richter-Lyonette, Elenor ed. (1996) In the Aftermath of Rape: Women’s Rights, War Crimes and Genocide, Givrins, Switzerland: The Coordination of Women’s Advocacy.   

Sajor, Indai Lourdes ed.  (1998) Common Grounds: Violence Against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations, Philippines: Asian Centre for Women’s Human Rights (ASCENT). 

Turshen, Meredith and Clotilde Twagiramariya, eds.  (1998) What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa, London/Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books. 

Vann, Beth (2002) Gender-Based Violence: Emerging Issues in Programs Serving Displaced Populations. GBV Global Technical Support Project. JSI Research and Training Institute, on behalf of the Reproductive Health For Refugees Consortium.

Wijers, Marjan and Lin Lap-Chew.  (1997) Trafficking in Women, Forced Labour and Slavery-like Practices in Marriage, Domestic Labour and Prostitution, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Foundation Against Trafficking in Women (STV) and Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW).

Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. (2002) UNHCR Policy on Refugee Women and Guidelines on Their Protection: An Assessment of Ten Years of Implementation, New York. 






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