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In this section, PeaceWomen classifies information by Theme- Peacekeeping - and by Subthemes: General; Sexual Exploitation and Abuse; and Gender Training

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  • September 2, 2010 (Strategy Page)
    DRC: With No Peace To Keep, Peacekeepers Told To Leave UN investigators have accused a group of rebels of gang rape. Members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) committed the crime in late July in a small village in North Kivu province (eastern Congo). At least 200 FDLR rebels participated in a series of night-long assaults on women in the village.
  • August 26, 2010 (Human Rights Watch)
    UGANDA: For Women with Disabilities, Barriers and Abuse Women with disabilities in northern Uganda experience ongoing discrimination and sexual and gender-based violence, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Many are unable to gain access to basic services, including health care and justice, and they have been largely ignored in post-conflict reconstruction efforts.
  • August 26, 2010 (The National)
    DRC: Sexual Violence Report Shocks World Back to Congo Conflict After 12 years and more than five million dead, residents of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have learnt to survive with the constant din of war as the backdrop of their lives. Even in periods of calm, the lush mountainous region is never really at peace. Monday's revelation that more than 150 women were raped last month near a UN base by Rwandan rebels and last week's attack on another United Nations peacekeeping base in eastern Congo snapped the world's attention back to a war that has killed more people than any conflict since the Second World War.
  • August 25, 2010 (UN News Centre)
    DRC: Mass Rapes Underline Urgency of Consolidating Peace in Eastern DR Congo The recent savage rape and assault of scores of civilians in the remote and troubled far east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a “brutal reminder” of the obstacles faced in keeping the peace in conflict zones, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.
  • August 25, 2010 (Christian Science Monitor)
    DRC: Mass Rape in Congo Reignites Questions on Efficacy of UN Force A report this week that Rwandan rebels looted villages in Congo and mass-raped more than 150 women and children in July has human rights activists asking why the UN peacekeeping mission can't prevent such atrocities.

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  • Gender Empowerment and United Nations Peacebuilding, Theodora-Ismene Gizelis, 2009 | Download PDF
  • Afghanistan Women and the Reconciliation Process, Civil-Military Fusion Center, August 2010 | Download PDF
  • Women with a Blue Helmet: The Integration of Women and Gender Issues in UN Peacekeeping Missions, INSTRAW, August 2010 | Download PDF
  • 'Gender-ing' the Palette: How are Gender Concerns Crucial to Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding?, Andrea Edoardo Varisco, 2010 | Download PDF
  • 'As If We Weren't Human' - Discrimination and Violence against Women with Disabilities in Northern Uganda, Human Rights Watch, August 26, 2010 | Download PDF

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