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Reconstruction & Peacebuilding


In this section, PeaceWomen classifies information by Theme- Reconstruction & Peacebuilding - and by Subthemes: General; Transitional Justice; Governance and Elections; Security Sector Reform; Human Security & MDGs; and Legal Reform, Access to Justice & Constitutions

It should be noted that the themes and sub-themes are interlinked and mutually reinforcing. Please remember that PeaceWomen posts information that is focused on women, peace and security.
 

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  • September 2, 2010 (The Citizen)
    EAST AFRICA: UN set to empower Dar women before elections The UN is set to empower Tanzanian women ahead of the General Election in October 31, the world body said in a statement released Wednesday. It said the empowerment includes improving their skills in public speaking, media engagement, campaign planning, presentations, community mobilisation, advocacy and lobbying.
  • September 1, 2010 (AllAfrica)
    LIBERIA: Choosing Family Over Education Meriam Dukumue, like the majority of women in her country, cannot read and write. Having suffered through years of conflict and now the breadwinner of her family, she is giving her children and husband what she never had – an education.
  • September 1, 2010 (AllAfrica)
    LIBERIA: Something New for the Senior Class: Girls When students return to the classroom at Bopolu Central High School this year, there will be something not seen at the school since it reopened after Liberia's long civil war. Senior-class women.
  • August 31, 2010 (Capital/Kirubel Tadesse )
    ETHIOPIA: Youth, Women Leagues Expected to Join EPRDF Leadership Structural change is expected within the ruling Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front's (EPRDF) top leadership at its congress scheduled for next month. The front's newly emerging youth and women leagues are likely to join the party's top leadership for the first time, a knowledgeable source has indicated.
  • August 30, 2010 (Brisbane Times)
    AFGHANISTAN: Afghan Women 'Depend' on Foreign Troops Pulling Western troops out of Afghanistan will condemn mothers and children to suffer, a leading Afghan women's advocate has warned.

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  • Gender Empowerment and United Nations Peacebuilding, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, 2009 | Download PDF
  • Report of the Mapping Exercise Documenting the Most Serious Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Committed Within the Territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Between March 1993 and June 2003, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, June 2010 | Download PDF
  • Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan, Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 Six Years On: Post-Bonn Gains And Gaps, medica mondiale, October 2007
  • Forced Displacement in Colombia: Public Policy, Gender and Initiatives for Reconstruction, Donny Meertens, Conference on African Migration in Comparative Perspective, June 2006 | Download PDF
  • Women's Participation in the Rwandan Genocide: Mothers or Monsters?, International Review of the Red Cross, March 2010 | Download PDF

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