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The Karamoja Conflict: Origins, impacts and solutions

01/01/2003

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105 pages long

Languages: English

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Oxfam has worked in Uganda for over 20 years. When, in 1999, the Karamoja Programme Manager was shot at within a few metres of the project offices, Oxfam realised that no serious and sustained development work could take place in the absence of peace and security. Because conflict and insecurity are a constant reality in […]

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Human rights or wrongs? the struggle for a rights-based response to trafficking in human beings

01/03/2002

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Human rights or wrongs? the struggle for a rights-based response to trafficking in human beings

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A unique opportunity for non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and advocates to contribute to the development of a human rights-based response to the trafficking of human beings now exists. Many governments have signed a new international treaty on trafficking and are in the process of adopting domestic anti-trafficking laws. However, as explained in this article, most government […]

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Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

01/12/2001

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Gender and power relations in a bureaucratic context: female immigrants from Ethiopia in an absorption centre in Israel

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In this article, I discuss the ways in which the bureaucracy of absorption centres in Israel disempowered Ethiopian women immigrants by promoting a strict gender division of labour within a ‘family unit’ that reflected wider social structures in Israel. In their interactions with Ethiopian immigrants, the officials running the absorption centres enhanced the idea of […]

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Reconstructing roles and relations: women’s participation in reconstruction in post-Mitch Nicaragua

01/12/2001

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Reconstructing roles and relations: women’s participation in reconstruction in post-Mitch Nicaragua

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Hurricane Mitch, which took place in October 1998, affected millions of people in Central America, in Honduras and Nicaragua in particular. In Nicaragua, following the hurricane, many civil society organisations mobilised to participate in reconstruction, and to present alternatives to the government’s reconstruction plans. The newly-formed Civil Co-ordinator for Emergency and Reconstruction (CCER), a coalition […]

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Gender, conflict, and building sustainable peace: recent lessons from Latin America

01/12/2001

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Gender, conflict, and building sustainable peace: recent lessons from Latin America

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Latin American experiences of conflict and building sustainable peace have tended to show a clear neglect of a gender analysis of the impacts of conflict and the peace negotiations that end it, much to the detriment of many women and men affected by and involved in the civil conflicts that have ravaged the region during […]

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Healing the psychological wounds of gender-related violence in Latin America: a model for gender-sensitive work in post-conflict contexts

01/12/2001

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Healing the psychological wounds of gender-related violence in Latin America: a model for gender-sensitive work in post-conflict contexts

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This article presents a model of healing which conceptualises and addresses the psychological effects on women of gender-related violence in the post-conflict context. The model is drawn from the experience of an El Salvadorian NGO, Las Dignas, and from key insights from gender and development literature. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & […]

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Gendering ethnicity in Kyrgyzstan: forgotten elements in promoting peace and democracy

01/12/2001

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Gendering ethnicity in Kyrgyzstan: forgotten elements in promoting peace and democracy

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Women’s potential positive role in preventing and arresting ethnic conflict, and their obvious absence in conflict resolution initiatives, has been largely ignored and negated from community level to the level of international donors. Traditionally, ethnicity has been treated as a gender-neutral identity, when, in fact, academics and development professionals have tended to examine ethnic issues […]

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Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

01/12/2001

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Contested terrain: Oxfam, gender, and the aftermath of war

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In this paper I explore the terrain of the international NGO (INGO) – in this case Oxfam GB – and some of its difficulties in integrating gender equity goals in the institutional structures and policies which govern its activities in conflict and its aftermath. I look at terrain that is divided into areas that are […]

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Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

01/12/2001

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Saving and protecting lives by empowering women

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Women and men face different risks and vulnerabilities during disaster, and they bring different resources to preparing for and coping with disaster. Less well recognised are the ways in which humanitarian interventions themselves influence the nature of gender relations during crises. A gender-blind humanitarian response which does not address gender-specific issues and does not pay […]

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Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

01/12/2001

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Empowering women through cash relief in humanitarian contexts

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This paper discusses the rationale behind cash transfer strategies as an alternative means of channelling resources to women and men in humanitarian contexts. It highlights key gender-related considerations that contribute to the success of the strategy. Food aid remains the largest part of United Nations appeals, but it is often delayed, inadequate in quantity and […]

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