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Human Security & MDGs


Human Security & MDGs is a sub-theme of Reconstruction & Peacebuilding and provides information on Human Security and MDGs relevant to women and post-conflict reconstruction and Peacebuilding.

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  • April 13, 2012 (The Asian Journal)
    PHILIPPINES: Philippines On Track in Achieving Millennium Development Goals The Philippines is on track in achieving the Millennium Development Goals particularly in education, health, women and children, President Benigno S. Aquino III told visiting Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia Quentin Bryce on Thursday.
  • April 10, 2012 (UNHCR)
    COLOMBIA: UNHCR Supports Project to Help Displaced Colombians in Medellin Isabel* thinks she's finally found a place where she can rebuild her life, seven years after fleeing her home and moving from one location to another in search of safety. Her long journey has taken her from the Pacific port of Tumaco in the deep south-west to a deprived district in the sprawling northern city of Medellin, one of almost 4 million Colombians displaced within their own country by violence or persecution. She left because of the increasing violence and concern that her two children could be forcibly recruited by illegal armed groups.
  • January 28, 2012 (All Africa)
    UGANDA: Women Picking Up the Broken Pieces After LRA The Country Manager Open Society Initiative for East Africa,(OSIEA) Richard Mugisha, met some of these women as they try to start a new life after the war. He explains some of the new lifestyles the women adopted for survival.
  • December 14, 2011 (Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication)
    IRAQ: Interview: Between Nationalism and Women's Rights - The Kurdish Women's Movement Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt, "Between Nationalism and Women's Rights: The Kurdish Women's Movement in Iraq," Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
  • December 1, 2011 (BBC News)
    AFGHANISTAN: Taliban Peace Deal Threat to Women's Future Women's rights activists in Afghanistan say they fear the advances made by women over the past decade could be reversed if a peace deal is done with the Taliban.

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  • Global Monitoring Report, 2007: Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States, International Monetary Fund, April 18, 2007 | Download PDF
  • The World's Women and Girls 2011 Data Sheet, Population Reference Bureau , 2011 | Download PDF
  • Violence Against Women: An Urgent Public Health Priority, World Health Organization (WHO), January 2011 | Download PDF
  • Gender Inequality and Social Institutions in the D.R. Congo, WILPF, April - December 2010 | Download PDF
  • Gender, Conflict and the Millennium Development Goals, Women for Women International, November 2010 | Download PDF

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MDGs-Gender (UNIFEM/UNDP) [PDF, 7MB]

 

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