Manuals & Handbooks
Gendered peace: women's struggles for post-war justice and reconciliation
By UNRISD
This publication from the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, edited by Donna Pankhurst, contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending for a conflict, often denoted as "post-conflict" or "post-war". Such moments often herald great hope for holding to account those who committed grave wrongs during the conflict, and for a better life in the future. For many women, both of these hopes are often very quickly shattered in starkly different ways to the hopes of men. Such periods are often characterized by violence and insecurities, and the official ending of war often fails to bring freedom from sexual violence for many women. Within such a context, efforts on the part of women, and those made on their behalf, to hold to account those who commit crimes against them, and to access their rights are difficult to make, are often dangerous, and are also often deployed with little effect. Gendered Peace explores international contexts, and a variety of local ones, in which such struggles take place, and evaluates their progress. The volume highlights the surprising success in the development of international legal advances for women, but contrasts this with the actual experience of women in cases from Sierra Leone, Rwanda, South Africa, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, East Timor, Peru, Central America and the Balkans
For more information, please visit: http://www.unrisd.org/
Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders
The guidebook “Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders” is an initiative to acknowledge the valuable contribution of women human rights defenders in the promotion and protection of human rights, and to empower them further in their role as defenders. It builds on the achievements of women human rights defenders, including those attained in the framework of the three-year international campaign on women human rights defenders. By looking at the specific types of human rights violations affecting women defenders because of their gender, the guidebook enhances understanding and awareness of the challenges faced by women defenders and serves as a tool to advocate for protection, redress and compensation measures.
To read the guidebook, please visit: http://www.defendingwomen-defendingrights.org/pdf2007/book3Neo.pdf
Empowering Young Women to Lead Change
A training Manual
By: World YWCA, 2006
Languages: English, Spanish, French
Empowering Young Women to Lead Change is an easy to follow resource manual designed to enable young women to prepare and facilitate training on a host of issues that are important to them. A joint publication of the World YWCA and UNFPA, the manual was developed by young women and contains modules on young women's leadership, economic justice, HIV and AIDS, human rights, peace, self esteem and body image, sexual and reproductive health and violence against women. The issues are complex and the publication has been developed for young women to lead themselves in learning more about the issues through fun and participatory activities and on to action. Trainings and workshops can be designed using the entire manual or pulling out modules of interest for shorter sessions. It was tested in six countries and was launched at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto. The manuals are distributed to YWCAs in 122 countries as well as to UNFPA country offices and to organizations working with young women and youth.
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Seeking protection from domestic violence, a handbook for victims and non profit organizations
By the Organization for security and co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
This is a handbook from the Organization for security and co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to explain what type of abuses is considered domestic violence by Albanian law, in Albanian society. In December 2006, the Albanian Parliament passed a new law to help the victims of domestic violence, law no 9669 of 18 December 2006 “On measures against violence in family relations” (domestic violence law). The purpose of the law is to prevent and reduce domestic violence in all its forms and to protect those who are victimized by it. The handbook aims to clarify how this law can help an abused person further to protect oneself from further injury or even death by requesting the judge to issue protection against the abuser. Appendices to the handbook provide a list of counseling and sheltering services that help victims of domestic violence.
To read the handbook, please visit: http://www.wave-network.org/images/doku/handbook_dv_osce.pdf
Women in Peacebuilding Resource & Training Manual
By: Lisa Schirch – West African Network for Peacebuilding and
Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University
The manual covers traditional peacebuilding topics with a specific
focus throughout on how being female impacts peacebuilding. It was
designed for women who want to help themselves or other women become
more involved in peacebuilding. The exercises and content are written
both for beginners and community-level women as well as more advanced
peacebuilding trainers.
The information presented in this manual is designed to fulfill three
functions.
It can be used as:
1. A guide for trainers conducting Women in Peacebuilding
workshops,
2. A participants’ handbook for women attending
Women in Peacebuilding Workshops, and
3. A reference book for those interested in learning
about the issues surrounding women in peacebuilding. To download
chapters 1 – 5, click
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To download
chapters 5 – 7, click
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To download
chapter 7 and appendix 1 – 4,
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Resources on aid effectiveness
By AWID
This set of Primers shares critical information and analysis about the new aid architecture that has emerged as a result of the Paris Declaration (PD)-the most recent donor-partner agreement designed to increase the impact of aid. This aid effectiveness agenda, the result of the signature and implementation of the Paris Declaration process currently determines how and to whom aid is being delivered as well as how donor and aid-recipient countries are relating to one another. We hope the information, analysis and proposals included in these primers will encourage women's rights advocates and other actors to understand the relevance of this process and to engage in it to support the call for a more comprehensive, balanced, and inclusive approach to reforming aid so that it reaches the people who need it most, including women! Stay tuned for the 5th and final primer in this series devoted to highlighting some of the specific concerns and recommendations from a women's rights perspective.
To download, please visit: http://www.awid.org/go.php?pg=aid_effectiveness
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