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From Protection to Empowerment: Civilians as Stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
This paper explores the role of civilian stakeholders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo peace process, with particular emphasis on women, children, refugees and internally displaced people. The aim is to promote the view that war victims must be treated as peace stakeholders in order to break the cycles of exploitation, marginalisation and violence that have characterised the conflict in the DRC. In this sense, ‘mainstreaming’ should be seen as a political commitment to making all aspects of the peace process relevant to vulnerable groups: from civilian protection to longer-term policy reforms.
Vanessa Kent and Angela McIntyre
Institute for Security Studies Paper No 84
April 2004
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Gender perspectives on D, D and R |
This paper discusses the UN Department for Disarmament Affair’s (DDA) approach to mainstreaming gender in DD&R in all its aspects, illustrating DDA’s contribution to small arms and light weapons collection programs, and reflecting on lessons learnt and capacity-building in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Agnès Marcaillou, United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, “Gender Perspectives on Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration”,
Organised by UNIFEM
United Nations
New York
9 March 2004
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Where Are The Girls?: Girls in fighting forces in Northern Uganda, Sierra Leone and Mozambique: Their lives during and after war |
This book seeks to raise awareness of the militarisation of the lives of girls in fighting forces and the role they play. The authors undertook research in Northern Uganda, Mozambique and Sierra Leone to reveal that girls in fighting forces are not, and never have been, simply "camp followers." This study is addressed to all those who work in countries that are in conflict or ravaged by war, whether they are community groups or multilateral, governmental, or NGOs.
Susan McKay and Dyan Mazurana,
Supported by the Canadian International Development Agency's Child Protection Research Fund
March 2004
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National study of Female Homicides in South Africa |
| A woman is killed every 6 hours in South Africa by her intimate partner. This is one of the key findings from the first national study of female homicides in South Africa. It was a collaborative study between researchers from the Medical Research Council’s Gender & Health Group, the Division of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology from the University of Cape Town and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. The study found that 50% of all women murdered in South Africa by known perpetrators in 1999 were killed by men with whom they had an intimate relationship. For this year (1999) 8.8 women out of every 100 000 women aged 14 years and over were killed by their intimate partners.
For more information contact:
MRC Gender & Health group
Dr Naeemah Abrahams, Tel: 021 9380445/Cell: 082 4617542 or
Shanaaz Mathews, Tel: 021 9380448/Cell: 083 2461676
June 2004
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