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2007 Social Watch Gender Equity Index (GEI). [ link to document ]
Abandoning Female-Genital
Mutilation/Cutting: Information from Around the World. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) have launched
a CD-Rom containing information on female genital mutilation
/ cutting. The CD is a response to a 2004 survey that
discovered that serious gaps in information exist in
this area. The CD-ROM includes material on various approaches
used by organizations working toward abandonment of
the practice, as well as on statistics, training efforts,
and policy aspects. The CD is available free of charge
via the PRB website. (Source: www.eldis.org) [link
to information on how to order]
Action on Gender Based Violence and HIV/AIDS: Bringing Together Research, Policy, Programming and Advocacy Program on International Health and Human Rights www.hsph.harvard.edu/pihhr and the Center for Women's Global Leadership www.cwgl.rutgers.edu [link to document]
Addressing gender-based
violence from the reproductive health/HIV sector: A
literature review and analysis.
By Alessandra Guedes, USAID Interagency Gender Working
Group, 2004
The review highlights four approaches to addressing
gender-based violence: behaviour change communication
(BCC), community mobilisation, service provision, and
policy. It also examines programmes aimed at youth and
those serving refugees, internally displaced populations,
and returnees. [link
to document]
Addressing violence against
women and acheiving the Millennium Development Goals,
World Health Organisation, 2005 [view]
African Family Health: IEC materials developed for the GBV Sub cluster with support from UNFPA in response to the recent post-election crisis in Kenya. [view]
Agency for Co-operation and Research Development (ACORD): A Conference Communiqué developed during the recent Pan African conference on ending impunity for sexual and gender based violence. The conference took place in Nairobi from 21st to 23rd July 2008. [view]
Amnesty International, “Uganda: Justice System Fails Victims of Sexual Abuse” November 2007. The report details research findings from the districts of Gulu, Amuru, Kitgum, Pader and Lira in Uganda and reports a culture of impunity surrounding cases of rape and sexual violence. View document [here]
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID): “Where is the Money for Women’s Rights? The Second Funder Report: Financial Sustainability for Women’s Movements World Wide” By Joanna Kerr 2007. The Report is second in a series of publications resulting from AWID’s multi-year action research initiative “Where is the Money for Women’s Rights?” this report probes deeper into fundamental questions related to resource mobilization and movement-building. [link to document]
Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID): A set of primers by AWID on Aid Effectiveness and Women's Rights which share critical information and analysis about the new aid architecture that has emerged as a result of the Paris Declaration (PD) that has impacted on how and to whom aid is being delivered as well as how donor and aid-recipient countries are relating to one another. [link to document]
Beyond Victimhood: Women’s
Peacebuilding in Sudan, Congo and Uganda, International
Crisis Group (Crisis Group). Countries in crisis and
the wider international community must do much more
to support women’s involvement in solving Africa’s
deadliest conflicts. In Sudan, Congo and Uganda, an
array of women’s organisations and leaders are
doing remarkable work, under difficult circumstances,
especially in community organisations and informal
conflict resolution mechanisms. Still, women remain
marginalised in formal peace processes and post-conflict
governments. Donors and others in the international
community all need to do much more to offer sustainable
support rather than just rhetoric. It is not merely
a question of fairness or equity: women make a difference
in part because they often adopt a more inclusive approach
toward security and address key social and economic
issues that would otherwise be ignored. Peace agreements,
post-conflict reconstruction and governance work better
when women peace activists are involved.
[ link
to document ]
Born to High Risk: Violence Against
Girls in Africa, The African Child Policy Forum 2006
[ view
]
Broken bodies - broken dreams:
violence against women exposed
This publication offers a
powerful testimony of the different types of gender-based
violence experienced by women and girls worldwide throughout
their lives, through the use of photographs, individual
case studies and illustrative text. The publication,
written by Jeanne Ward, is part of OCHA/IRIN’s
ongoing campaign to highlight the issues of violence
against women through film, text and photography. The
book and its accompanying CD of training materials are
meant to raise awareness of the situation that befalls
women and girls, and to provoke ACTION. Information
packages for partner groups helping to advocate on behalf
of women and girls, as well as a media kit for journalists
are also available on CD and on the IRIN web site: www.irinnews.org/broken-bodies.
To request a copy of the publication, please write to:
brokenbodies@irinnews.org.
Bureau for Global Health
Strategy for Female Genital Cutting (FGC), FY
2004 – FY 2006, United States Agency for International
Development (USAID) , July, 2004 [view]
Causes and Consequences of Early Marriage in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia
A study conducted in the spring of 2006 that gathered both quantitative and qualitative information on the practice of early marriage in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. [link to document]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Victimization Assessment Instruments for Use in Healthcare Settings” 2007. This is a compilation of existing tools for assessing intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence (SV) victimization in clinical/healthcare settings. The purpose of this compilation is to provide practitioners and clinicians with the most current inventory of assessment tools for determining IPV and/or SV victimization and to inform decisions about which instruments are most appropriate for use with a given population. [link to document]
Center for Women’s Global Leadership: Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (2006), Cynthia Rothschild, Mary Anne Reilly and Sara A. Nordstrom. This report focuses on the points of intersection in the social, political and public health crises of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. The report uses a human rights lens to focus on critical political challenges and on innovative strategies used by activists worldwide as they respond to the links between violence and HIV/AIDS, including the GBV Prevention Network. [view].
Changing a harmful social
convention: female genital mutilation/cutting.
This paper, developed by Lewnes, A. (ed.) and published
by UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre in 2005 examines
the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting
(FGM/C) and its social dynamics. It provides an explanation
as to why the practice persists and of the elements
necessary for its abandonment. It also takes stock of
progress to date, identifies what works and what does
not, and provides direction regarding the most successful
strategies to promote the abandonment of FGM/C. [link
to document]
Close
to Home: Mobilizing Family, Friends & Neighbors to Prevent
Domestic Violence.
Report of a 2003 online conference involving participants
from 14 countries in discussions about strategies and
challenges of organizing community-based domestic violence
prevention initiatives. Close to Home Domestic Violence
Prevention Initiative, United States. [view]
Comparative Study of the Domestic Relations Bill and Canon Law in Uganda, Domestic Relations Bill Coalition, written by Irene Mulyagonja Kakooza June 2007. [view]
Crushing
Burden of Rape, The: Sexual Violence in Darfur,
A briefing paper by Médecins Sans Frontières,
International Women's Day 8 March 2005. [view]
Domestic
Relations Bill in Uganda: Addressing Polygamy,
Bride Price, Cohabitation, Marital Rape, and Female
Genital Mutilation, by Vanessa Von Struensee, JD, MPH [view]
Domestic Violence against
Women and Girls
A global review of domestic violence, its causes and
consequences. UNICEF, Innocenti Digest, No. 6, June
2000. Available for free download: [link
to document]
"Don't Forget Us": The Education and Gender-based Violence Protection Needs of Adolescent Girls from Darfur in Chad, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, July 2005 [link to document]
The Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initative for the Advancement of Women: ‘The Women’s Voices for Peace Initiative’ February 2008. This report presents the peoceedings of a regional Dialogue on Women’s Voices for Peace which was held on 15th February 2008. [link to document]
Economic Dimensions of Interpersonal
Violence.
World Health Organization, 2004. [view]
Educate Girls, Fight AIDS
This brief discusses the relationship
between the education of girls and prevention of HIV
by describing the status of the situation, presenting
innovative programs that achieve results, and discussing
remaining obstacles. To download the report, visit:
[link
to document]
Effect of a structural intervention for the prevention of Intimate Parter Violence and HIV in rural South Africa: a cluster randomised trail. by: Pronyk PM, Hargreaves JR, Kim JC, Morison LA, Phetla G, Watts C, Busza J, Porter JD, The Lancet, Current Issue, Volume 368, Number 9551, 02 December 2006: HIV infection and intimate-partner violence share a common risk environment in much of southern Africa. The aim of the Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE) study was to assess a structural intervention that combined a microfinance programme with a gender and HIV training curriculum. [link to document]
Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights: ECWR’s August 2008 updates of campaigns, and analysis of issues like the effect of sexual harassment on the economy. [view]
Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR): Press Release: Behind the Microphone: Working Together to Stop Sexual Harassment. As part of ECWR's Campaign against Sexual Harassment, "Making Our Street Safer for Everyone," ECWR is pleased to announce the beginning of the second phase of their media campaign. [view press release]
Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR): “Clouds in Egypt’s Sky” Sexual Harassment: from Verbal Harassment to Rape. This research report provides a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon of sexual harassment and aims to help ECWR achieve its main goals of an Egyptian society in which all members feel secure whether male or female, Egyptian or foreign. [view report]
Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR): Press Release and Petition of the ECWR’s Campaign Against Sexual Harassment: Making our Street Safer for Everyone, which began in 2005 in response to complaints from Egyptian and foreign women exposed to sexual harassment in Egypt’s streets. The press release provides updates on the million signatures campaign against complaints by women of sexual harassment on the streets. [view] And sign the petition online here.
Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights. Read the ECWR’s September 2007 update on the closure of human rights NGOs in Egypt, the proposed amendment to the existing NGO laws in Egypt, and the ECRWs and other activists response to counter this amendment. [view]
Egyptian Centre for Women’s Rights, October 2007 update about their campaign against sexual harassment on Egyptian streets, the need for a free civil society in order to realize women’s rights, and gender segregation of socialization areas in Egypt.
View document [here]
Elimination of all forms of discrimination and violence against the girl child. Report of the Expert Group Meeting. UN Division for the Advancement of Women, 2006 [link to document]
Ending gender-based violence:
A call for global action to involve men, A summary
of research prepared by: Harry Ferguson, Jeff Hearn,
Øystein Gullvåg Holter, Lars Jalmert, Michael
Kimmel, James Lang, Robert Morrell, published by SIDA,
2004. [view]
Ending Violence Against
Women
A special issue of Population Reports dedicated to understanding
gender-based violence. Written by Lori Heise, Mary Ellsberg
and Megan Gottemoeller, Series L, Number 11, December
1999.
Available for free download: [link
to document]
Engaging men and boys in changing gender-based inequity in health: Evidence from programme interventions by Gary Barker, Christine Ricardo and Marcos Nascimento, WHO 2007 [link to document]
Engender Health: “Sexual and Reproductive Health for HIV Positive Women and Adolescent Girls: A Manual for Trainers and Program Managers” 2006. This training manual provides information and a structure for a four day training and two day planning workshop. The training aims to enable program managers and health workers to provide comprehensive, nonjudgmental, and high-quality SRH care and support to HIV-positive women and adolescent girls. The manual is designed for a local context with limited resources. [link to document]
Engender Health: “Risk and Resilience: Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania” 2006. A qualitative study conducted by Engender Health and the Women’s Dignity Project in Tanzania to understand the many dimensions of obstetric fistula and its related social vulnerability. [link to document]
Eradication of Female Genital
Mutilation in Somalia Advocacy
paper by UNICEF
[view]
Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Researching, Documenting and Monitoring Sexual Violence in Emergencies, WHO, 2007 [link to document]
Executive Summary, Ending violence against women: from words to action, Study of the Secretary-General, October 9, 2006. [view]
Facing the Future Together:
Report of the United Nations Secretary-General's Task
Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
United Nations, 2004. [view]
Feinstein International Center: Forced Marriage within the Lord’s Resistance Army, Khristopher Carlson & Dyan Mazurana, May 2008. This report is an in depth investigation based on 103 testimonies of women and girls abducted and forced into marriage with Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) combatants. The LRA is a rebel movement fighting the Government of Uganda and is estimated to have kidnapped over 60,000 children and youth. [view]
Fighting violence against women: what works, Ending violence against women: from words to action, Study of the Secretary-General, October 9, 2006. [view]
Finding Trees in the Desert: Firewood Collection and Alternatives in Dafur, The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children March 2006, written by Erin Patrick. The report details danger faced by women and girls as they venture out of the camps for firewood and recommends a variety of simultaneous interventions in several sectors, to solve this problem. [ view ]
Gender and Sexuality: Cutting Edge Pack
This Cutting Edge Pack hopes to inspire thinking on this question - with an Overview Report outlining key issues on gender, sexuality and sexual rights in the current climate, a Supporting Resources Collection providing summaries of key texts, tools, case studies and contacts of organisations in this field, and a Gender and Development In Brief newsletter with three short articles on the theme. [link to document]
Gender-Based Violence: An
Impediment to Sexual and Reproductive Health.
1998 report by the International Planned Parenthood
Federation.
Available for free download: [link
to document]
Gender-based Violence: Emerging
Issues in Programs Serving Displaced Populations
This report provides background and current information
about gender-based violence programming with populations
affected by armed conflict. It gives concrete advice
and examples of programming addressing gender-based
violence, and lists valuable resources for further information.
Written by Beth Vann, 2002.
Available for free download at Reproductive Health Response
in Conflict Consortium Website: [link
to document]
Gender Inequality and Intimate Partner Violence Among Women in Moshi, Tanzania
A recent analysis of data from nearly 1,500 in-person interviews with women in the urban district of Moshi, Tanzania, highlights the need for policies and programs aimed at empowering women to take control of their sex lives and fertility. [link to document]
Gender Project, Community Law Centre, and University of the Western Cape: first two editions of the Newsletter “Iminyango” providing information on the intersections between gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.
View document 1 [here] and document 2 [here]
Girls, HIV/AIDS and Education,
UNICEF and the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, 2004.
[view]
Good
practices in combating and eliminating violence against
women , Expert Group Meeting Organized by: United
Nations Division for the Advancement of Women in collaboration
with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 17 to
20 May 2005 Vienna, Austria [view]
Harvard School of Public Health, Program on International health and Human Rights: HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence Literature Review, August 2006. This report provides a review of publications addressing the intersection between gender-based violence and HIV. It contains a review of key studies and academic reports. [view]
HIV and Partner Violence: Implications for HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing
Programs in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, by Suzanne Maman,
Jessie Mbwambo, Margaret Hogan, Gad Kilonzo, Michael
Sweat, Ellen Weiss , Population Council – Horizons,
2001. [view]
Human Rights Dialogue:
Violence Against Women
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs,
Series 2, Number 10 (Fall 2003)
Available for free download: [link
to document]
If Not Now, When? Addressing
Gender-Based Violence in Refugee, Internally Displaced,
and Post-Conflict Settings A Global Overview
Written by Jeanne Ward, 2002
Available for free download at Reproductive Health Response
in Conflict Consortium Website: [link
to document]
In-depth study on all forms of violence against women, Report of the Secretary-General
Division for the Advancement of Women 2006. [ link to document ]
The Info Project: Intimate partner violence and reproductive health of women in Kenya this report describes the association between IPV and reproductive health of women in Kenya using the Demographic and Health Survey of 2003. [view]
The INFO Project: VIDEO, Fighting the Silence: Sexual Violence against Women in Congo "Fighting the Silence" tells the story of ordinary Congolese women and men who are struggling to change their society: one that prefers to blame victims rather than prosecute rapists. Rape survivors and their families speak out openly about the suffering they endured because their culture considers women second class citizens and rape as a taboo. They give voice to thousands of other survivors and their families who have chosen to hide their grief and remain silent for fear of being rejected by their families and community. [view]
The INFO Project, End Violence against Women: Fact sheet of the UN Secretary-General’s campaign to end violence against women that was launched in February 2008. View the document [link to document]
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: Outcry of International Criminal Court’s scrapping of rape charges. This feature highlights the outrage of victims of sexual violence in DRC angered by court’s controversial move. Congolese women who’ve fallen victim to rape and related crimes say they feel badly let down by the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC recommends that all sexual violence charges relating to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC should be dropped.The ICC decision followed an internal squabble over the protection of witness , which was reported by IWPR last week. Charges of sexual slavery were removed from the indictments against militia leaders Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo, who face a confirmation of charges for hearing late this month in The Hague. [view]
Integration Of The Human
Rights Of Women And The Gender Perspective: Violence
Against Women Intersections Of Violence Against Women
And Hiv/Aids, Report Of The Special Rapporteur On Violence
Against Women, Its Causes And Consequences, Yakin Ertürk,
for the Economic and Social Council, E/CN.4/2005/72,
17 January 2005 , Commission On Human Rights, Sixty-first
session [view]
Interafrican Union for Human Rights (IUHR) Read the IUHR press statement condemning the destruction of life and livelihood as well as sexual violence against women that continues in Dafur unabated. [view]
International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS (ICW): Positive Women Monitoring Change, September 2008. A monitoring tool on access to care treatment and support, sexual and reproductive health, and rights and violence against women, created by and for HIV positive women. [view]
International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW): in October 2007 the ICW demanded for an apology from The President of Uganda over statements he made with regard to PLWHA. [view]
International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 30, Number 4, December 2004 , The Experience of Sexual Coercion Among Young People in Kenya, By Annabel S. Erulkar, Guttmacher Institute. [ link to document ]
JASS’ Feminist Movement-Building Initiative: "Imagining and Building Africa Women’s Movements" November 2007. Report of the JASS Movement-building institute held from November 19 – 22 2007 with OSISA and Action Aid. [view]
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Info Report "Tools for Behavior Change Communication" January 2008. This report provides tools that are meant to help in planning and developing a behavior change communication (BCC) program. GBV Prevention practitioners may adapt some of these tools for their own programs. [link to document]
Just Die Quietly: Domestic
Violence and Women's Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Uganda.
2003 Human Rights Watch Report detailing the links between
domestic violence, marital rape, and the continuing
spread of HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Human Rights Watch. [link
to document]
Kenyans for Peace Through Truth and Justice: Proposed Benchmarks of Accountability for the mediation process. View the proposed bench marks [here]
Kenyans for Peace Through Truth and Justice: January 25th 2008 press release “Documentation and Investigation of Serious Violations of Human Rights in the Post Election Violence in Kenya”. View the press release [here]
‘Man Hunt Intimacy: Man Clean Bathroom’: Women, Sexual Pleasure, Gender Violence and HIV
Article by Alice Welbourn. [view document]
Milestones
of a Global Campaign for Violence Prevention 2005: Changing
the Face of Violence Prevention, World Health
Organisation, 2005 [view]
Multi-Country
Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against
Women - Full Report, World Health Organisation,
2005
Multi-Country
Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against
Women - Summary Report, World Health Organisation,
2005 [view]
Nairobi Declaration on Women's and Girls' Right to a Remedy and Reparation, Spearheaded by The Urgent Action Fund-Africa, in collaboration with the Coalition on Women’s Human Rights in Conflict Situations and Rights and Democracy2007. [view]
New Insights on Preventing Child Marriage - A Global Analysis of Factors & Programs, International Center for Research on Women, 2007 [link to document]
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: "Project on a Mechanism to Address Laws that Discriminate Against Women" Dr. Fareda Banda, March 2008. This report summarizes a project that aimed to examine the advisability of creating a new mechanism to address laws that discriminate against women. [view]
Oxfam GB: “Gender-based Violence, September 2007” edited by Geraldine Terry and Joanna Hoare. This book presents articles that cover a range of manifestations of gender-based violence, including domestic and sexual violence, female genital mutilation or cutting, the sexual exploitation of girls at school, and trafficking for prostitution. The case studies are drawn from South and East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America.
View document [here]
Oxfam GB, We Can Alliance: “Violence Against Women: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania” November 2007. This desk review report presents background information and/or contextual framework on violence against women in East Africa. View document [here]
Pathfinder International Ethiopia, “Women’s Empowerment in Ethiopia” September 2007. The report provides details about projects that have focused on the empowerment of women and girls in Ethiopia to shake off harmful traditional practices.
View document [here]
Policy Paralysis: A Call
for Action on HIV/AIDS Related Human Rights Abuses Against
Women and Girls in Africa. A report detailing how AIDS prevalence in Africa is
a result of human rights abuses against women and girls.
Human Rights Watch, 2003. [view]
Population Council: "Premarital sex and schooling transitions in four sub-Saharan African countries" This paper presents findings from research that has used data from the 2004 National Survey of Adolescents conducted in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda, investigating the timing of two key transitions in adolescence—school exit and premarital sex—among those who remain enrolled in school at the beginning of adolescence (age 12). The findings indicate, the negative consequences for schooling associated with sexual maturation and premarital sex which appear to be greater for adolescents in these four countries, especially for girls, than the consequences of leaving school early for the likelihood of premarital sex. View document [here]
Position Paper on Male Circumcision and HIV Prevention, Africa Youth and Adolescent Network on Population and Development (AfriYAN) [view]
Poverty and well being Platform (This platform is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and operated by Intercooperation and Overseas Development Cooperation): "Understanding and Operationalzing Empowerment", Cecilia Luttrell and Sitina Quiroz with Claire Scrutton and Kate Bird October 2007. The paper presents an overview of the different definitions of and conceptual approaches to empowerment and explores different dimensions of power. [view]
Preventing
and responding to gender-based violence in middle and
low income countries: a global review and analysis,
by Sarah Bott, Andrew Morrison, Mary Ellsberg, World
Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3618, June 2005 [view]
Profiling Domestic Violence:
A Multi-Country Report
Sunita Kishor, Kiersten Johnson Calverton, Maryland:
ORC Macro. June 2004
"…..This study uses household and individual-level data
from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program
to examine the prevalence and correlates of domestic
violence and the health consequences of domestic violence
for women and their children. Nationally representative
data from nine countries - Cambodia (2000), Colombia
(2000), the Dominican Republic (2002), Egypt (1995),
Haiti (2000), India (1998-1999), Nicaragua (1998), Peru
(2000), and Zambia (2001-2002)-are analyzed within a
comparative framework to provide a multifaceted analysis
of the phenomenon of domestic violence.."
Available online as PDF file at: [link
to document] To order a hard copy visit, www.measuredhs.com/pubs
Protocol on the Rights of
Women in Africa, The: An Instrument for Advancing Reproductive
and Sexual Rights, This Briefing paper, produced
by the Center for Reproductive Rights offers concrete
suggestions for women’s health and rights advocates
within and beyond Africa. It provides detailed information
that can help African women use the protocol to exercise
their reproductive rights, and suggests ways that governments
can implement the protocol’s landmark provisions.
The paper can also be useful to advocates outside Africa
who are seeking to establish similar guarantees. [view]
“Rape in Namibia: An assessment of the operation of the Combating of Rape Act 8 of 2000,” Legal Assistance Centre 2006. The report examines Namibian police statistics on rape from 2000-2005 to see how Namibia’s Combating of Rape Act 8 of 2000 is working in practice. The report provides learning for programs that are dealing with prevention or response to sexual violence. [View document]
“Reducing Women's and Girls' Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS by Strengthening their Property and Inheritance Rights,” International Council for Research on Women, May 2006. Information Bulletin on the project implemented in partnership with the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS (GCWA/UNAIDS) and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) [view document]
Refugee Law Project, Uganda (2008): This report examines the widespread occurrence of early marriages in Uganda's refugee settlements and how this phenomenon relates to the vulnerability and self-reliance paradigms that underpin official protection and assistance. The authors seek to understand why early marriages is a common phenomenon in refugee communities, which are illegal under Ugandan and international law, and widely recognized amongst refugees themselves as harmful. [view]
Rights of the Child: Report of the independent expert for the United Nations study on violence against children, 2006. This report, which is based on the in-depth study of Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, independent expert appointed by the Secretary-General pursuant to General-Assembly resolution 57/90 of 2002, provides a global picture of violence against children and proposes recommendations to prevent and respond to this issue. It provides information on the incidence of various types of violence against children within the family, schools, alternative care institutions and detention facilities, places where children work and communities. The Study was prepared through a participatory process which included regional, subregional and national consultations, expert thematic meetings and field visits. Many Governments also provided comprehensive responses to a questionnaire transmitted to them by the independent expert in 2004. [link to document]
Rising Up in Response: Women's
Rights Activism in Conflict, Barry, Jane, Urgent
Action Fund, 2005. [view]
Save the Children: No One to Turn To: The Under-reporting of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Aid Workers and Peacekeepers (2008). This report seeks to reinvigorate efforts to address the sexual abuse and exploitation of children by the very people hired to help them aid workers and peacekeepers. Based on research with communities and international organizations, this publication examines the chronic under-reporting of abuse and the inadequate response to it. It provides new analysis on why this abuse persists despite international efforts to stop it, and proposes new solutions to tackle it. [view]
Sexual Violence
Against Women and Girls in War and Its Aftermath:
Realities, Responses, and Required Resources. A
Briefing Paper Prepared for Symposium on Sexual
Violence in Conflict and Beyond 21-23 June 2006
Brussels (Belgium) by Jeanne Ward and Mendy Marsh,
UNFPA. [view]
“Sexual Violence: Weapon of War, Impediment to Peace. Forced Migration Review 27,” Forced Migration Review & United Nations Population Fund UNFPA January 2007. This report explores the challenges and opportunities for combating sexual violence in conflict, post-conflict and development recovery contexts. [View document]
Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOWAR): Communiqué on the conflict situation in Kenya. During a meeting held from 22nd to 24th January 2008, members of SOWAR issued a Communiqué expressing concern about the impact of the women especially with regard to perpetuation of violence against women. View the document [here]
Spectrum of Prevention,
The: Developing a Comprehensive Approach to Injury Prevention.
Article from Injury Prevention Journal, full text available
from the Prevention Institute. Written by: Larry Cohen
and Susan Swift Available for free download: [link
to document]
Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA Network): Read the statement that issued by 19 Sudanese Women Rights Organizations about the arrest and enforced disappearance of Zobida, her infant and her sister that came as part of the attacks against Darfuris in the national capital, Khartoum. [view]
Stolen smiles:
a summary report on the physical and psychological
health consequences of women and adolescents trafficked
in Europe, by
Cathy Zimmerman, Mazeda Hossain, Kate Yun, Brenda
Roche, Linda Morison, and Charlotte Watts, The
London School of Hygiene & Tropical
Medicine 2006. [ link
to document ]
Straight Talk Foundation: “Using Radio to Help Communities Talk” June 2006. This manual is about using radio for encouraging community dialogue and exploring various stages of creating programming. It was published by Straight Talk Foundation (STF), a non-governmental organization in Uganda specializing in health and development communication through radio, print, and community out-reach training, based on the importance of radio in Uganda as a tool for propelling communities into action. View the document [link to document]
Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA): “Good and Bad Practices in Targeting Violence against Women” 2007, this publication presents the results of a study by three SIHA members in Northern Sudan. From their findings this publication suggests some good and bad practices while advocating for the prevention of gender-based violence in Sudan. [link to document]
Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA): “Manual on Combating Violence against Women in Conflict Situations” November 2005. This manual works as a tool for local communities to support women’s participation in post conflict situations and in transitional justice and reconciliation processes. [link to document]
Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS, Cynthia Rothschild, Mary Anne Reilly and Sara A. Nordstrom, Center for Women's Global Leadership 2006. A new report that focuses on the points of intersection in the social, political and public health crises of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. Strengthening Resistance is designed as an overview of the most salient issues, and is meant for activists and policy makers alike who may be familiar with HIV/AIDS, violence against women or human rights - but not necessarily the nexus across all of these areas. The publication costs $6.95 plus $5.00 for shipping and handling. Prepayment is required. Please contact Women, Ink., 777 UN Plaza, NY, NY 10017 USA; Phone: (1-212) 687-8633; Fax: (1-212) 661-2704; Email: MaryWong@iwtc.org
Sudanese Women’s Declaration on Darfur: From 24th to the 25th of January in 2008 the African Women’s Consultation on Darfur was held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The consultation was coordinated by Femmes Africa Solidarité and one of the outcomes was the Sudanese Women’s Decelaration on Dafur. [link to document]
Suffering in Silence:
A Study of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in
Pabbo Camp, Gulu District, Nothern Uganda, Commissioned
By Gulu District Sub Working Group on SGBV Researchers
And Authors: Ms. Akumu Christine Okot, Ms. Amony Isabella
and Mr. Otim Gerald Researched in September 2004, Published
in January 2005. [view]
Suffering in Silence: The
Link Between Human Rights Abuses and HIV Transmission
to Girls in Zambia.
Report on girls' vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Zambia.
Human Rights Watch, 2002. [view]
Sugar Daddy Syndrome, The:
African Campaigns Battle Ingrained Phenomenon.
This resource, developed by PSI, provides an overview
of cross-generational sex in Africa and examines the
research and programs implemented to address "sugar
daddies," including peer education and social marketing.
To access the article, please visit the following link:
[link
to document]
Summary Report : Women in
an insecure world - Violence against women. Facts, Figures
and Analysis. This summary brings together a
comprehensive list of the facts and figures
regarding violence against women in daily life, during
war and conflict, and
in post-conflict situations. The authors map the pervasiveness
of violence
against women, analyse strategies to prevent and punish
that violence, and
highlight the key role that women play in initiatives
to counter violence.
[link
to document]
Systematic review of the
health complications of female genital mutilation,
A.
The immediate aim of the systematic review, developed
by WHO in 2001, is to identify primary data on health
complications of FGM, with particular emphasis on
sequelae in childbirth, including psychosexual outcomes.
The longer term aim of the systematic review is to
use this information for a number of purposes, including
identification of outcome measures of complications
of FGM for studies to quantify the risk attributable
to FGM at each stage in the life cycle; identification
of country specific and ethnic group specific outcome
measures of FGM that can be used to provide focus
to optimize health care provision for care of such
complications; and identification of sites world-wide
where opportunities exist for research into the health
sequelae of FGM. [link
to document]
Putting Women First: Ethical and Safety Recommendations for Research on Domestic Violence Against Women.
Guidelines for those interested in researching domestic violence. World Health Organization, 1999.
[view]
UN Commission on the Status of Women - 51st Session Agreed Conclusions On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination And Violence Against The Girl Child [ link to document ]
UNICEF Technical Note “Coordinated Strategy to Abandon Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in One Generation: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming: Leveraging Social Dynamics for Collective Change.” This document is a description of human rights based approach to FGM/C programming in Egypt, Sudan and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. [view]
UNICEF: The State of the World's Children 2007: Women and Children: This report looks at the status of women today, discusses how gender equality will move all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) forward, and shows how investment in women's rights has the potential to produce a double dividend: advancing the rights of both women and children. View document [here]
United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF, Protecting the Vulnerable Unit (Uganda): "GBV Prevention and Response Programs, Facilitators Manual"; a training manual for gender-based violence prevention. [view]
United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF Protecting the Vulnerable Unit (Uganda): "Working with Survivors of GBV, Facilitators Manual"; a training manual for NGO program staff hat are working with survivors of GBV in Sub-Saharan Africa. [view]
United Nations Development Fund for Women UNIFEM: Report to the fifty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women and the seventh session of the Human Rights Council. The report documents the activities undertaken by UNIFEM in 2007 as administrator of the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women, as well as its programming on violence against women. [view]
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) South Asia office and Save the Children Regional Programme for South and Central Asia: Strategies and Tools for Working With Men and Boys to end Violence Against Girls, Boys, Women and Other Men (2005). [view]
UNFPA Uganda: Joint Workshop Report on Medico-Legal Responses to Sexual Violence. UNFPA in Uganda sponsored some participants from Uganda in this convening this report presents their experiences and a summary of the workshop. [view]
United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM): Expert Group Consultation on Tracking and Monitoring Gender Equality and HIV/AIDS in aid effectiveness outcome and recommendations brochure. The consultation took place from May 28th to 30th 2008. Key agreements were made as a group on how best to ensure that there is a clear set of actions for promoting a comprehensive response to women’s rights and gender equality in the context of HIV and AIDS, and for building on the efforts to improve monitoring of results and progress in this regard. [view]
United Nations General Assembly: The report of the Ad Hoc Open – ended Working Group on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. The report contains the draft resolution adopted by the General Assembly (A/RES/62/214 to be issued); the draft resolution has an annex with the United Nations Comprehensive Strategy on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by United Nations Staff and Related Personnel. [link to document]
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): Programming to Address Violence Against Women: Ten Case Studies 2007. This volume is intended primarily for development practitioners and others seeking to change attitudes and practices, it offers lessons that can help scale up responses. Projects in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Romania, Sierra Leone and Turkey are discussed. [view]
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): Ending Violence Against Women: Programming for Prevention, Protection and Care, 2007. This handbook, intended primarily for development practitioners, provides practical points to consider when designing and implementing projects addressing violence against women. [view]
United Nations Population Fund: “Human Rights Based Programming” December 2006. This is a two in one manual designed to help practitioners use human rights programming, to empower people to exercise their reproductive rights and live free from gender-based violence. View the document [link to document]
United Nations Security Council: Read more about rape as a weapon of war and also UN resolution 1820. View the document [here] or see it in its permanent location at: non-member publications/reports.
Urgent Action Fund Africa: January to February 2008 Newsletter that features the response to sexual violence in the post election period of Kenya. [link to document]
Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights: "What's the Point of Revolution if We Can't Dance?" by Jane Barry and Jelena Dordevic 2007. This publication brings us the experiences of more than 100 activists from around the world. Presenting how activists have manages to stay focused, and physically and mentally healthy despite the challenges they are faced with. [view]
USAID: The Safe Schools Program, Malawi: “Student and Teacher Baseline Report on School-Related Gender-Based Violence in Machinga District, Malawi” by Richard H. Columbia, Esme Kadzamira and Catherine Moleni, December 2007. This report details the methodology, population characteristics, and results of a recently conducted survey on gender-based physical, psychological and sexual violence at schools including in the classroom and on the school grounds as well as going to and from school. View document [here]
Violence against women and HIV testing and counselling, Meeting Report , WHO 2007. [link to document]
Violence Against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Alternative report prepared for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women 36th session – 7-25 August 2006: African Association for the Defence of Human Rights and OMCT, July 2006. [ link to
document ]
Violence Against Women Must Stop, Toward Acheving the Third Millennium Development Goal to Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women, lCRW, 2006. [view]
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Virginity Testing: A Consultative Conference
Report on practice of virginity testing in South Africa. Commission on Gender Equality, South Africa, 2000
[view]
Waiting Opportunities: Adolescent girls experiences of gender-based violence at schools
by Sadiyya Haffejee. Research report written for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation Gender-based Violence Programme, September 2006. [link to document]
Women and Conflict: An Introductory Guide to Programming from the Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation (DCHA/CMM) at USAID. This introductory guide describes the ways in which conflict and fragility may increase gender inequities and suggests programming approaches that address these issues while building on the strengths of women. With this guide, DCHA/CMM aims to both raise awareness among USAID Mission employees of issues surrounding women and conflict, and to assist USAID by integrating conflict and gender concerns. The Women and Conflict Guide is available through the following link: [link to document]
Women for Women International. “Ending violence against women in Eastern Congo: Preparing men to advocate for women’s rights 2007.” Learn about their men’s leadership program by reading this report, [view]
Women's Human Rights
Human Rights Watch World Report 2002.
[view]
Women Won't Wait: "Show Us the Money: Is Violence Against Women on the HIV&AIDS Funding Agenda?" March 2007. This report marks the launch of the international coalition of women's organizations’ campaign to end HIV and violence against women.
View document [here]
Women's Safety Awards 2004:
A Compendium of Good Practices, Women in Cities International
/ Femmes et Villes International. [view]
Women, violence and health,
Amnesty International, 2005. [view]
World Bank: Young Men and the Construction of Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications for HIV/AIDS, Conflict, and Violence by Gary Barker and Christine Ricardo. This working paper from the World Bank examines the role of gender for young men in Africa, particularly as it relates to HIV/AIDS, conflict, and violence. The aim of this paper is to explore what a gender perspective means, as applied to young men in Africa, when focusing on conflict, violence, and HIV/AIDS. It explores the construction of manhood in Africa and argues for the application of a more sophisticated gender analysis that also includes men and boys. [view]
World Health Organization: Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS: Critical Intersections. This information bulletin providing a summary and analysis of the link from programs in Rwanda, South Africa and other countries. [view]
World Health Organization: Primary prevention of intimate partner violence and sexual violence: background paper (May 2007). A background paper, based on a draft prepared for an April 2007 expert meeting on preventing intimate partner violence and sexual violence. The paper explores what can be done to prevent violence against adolescent and adult women which occurs within intimate relationships, and sexual violence that occurs outside intimate relationships. [view]
World Health Organization (WHO), PATH,: “Researching Violence Against Women: A Practical Guide for Researchers and Activists,” 2005. A manual providing details on approaches, methodologies and tools for researching violence against women.
View document [here]
World Report on Violence
and Health (Introduction)
The introductory section of this report, with a list
of chapters and sections. World Health Organization,
2002. [view]
Other chapters available: [link
to document]Young Men and the Construction
of Masculinity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Implications
for HIV/AIDS,Conflict, and Violence; By Gary Barker
and Christine Ricardo, World Bank, Social Development
Papers, Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction, Paper
No. 26, June 2005. [view]
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