Aiming to make early warning more comprehensive and preventive actions more effective and permanent, this paper presents an initial framework on how to 'engender' early warning. In addition to identifying gaps in the framework presented and areas for further research and recommendations for policy, the paper consists of two main sections:

I) Overview of definitions, processes and development of conflict early warning, clarification of issues surrounding the use of the terms gender and gender mainstreaming.

II) Examination of links between gender

The international mine action community has learned a great deal over the past decade, particularly concerning the efficiency and safety of clearance operations, guidelines for establishing national mine action programmes, building indigenous capacities, implementing landmine impact surveys, and information management.

Socio-Economic Approaches to Mine Action, An Operational Handbook builds on these lessons learnt, but focuses on the inter-relationships between mine action and a country's social and economic structures. The Operational Handbook has been developed out of

In its Resolution on Women, Peace and Security, adopted by the Security Council on October 31,2000, the United Nations formally recognizes that achieving gender justice is as central to social transformation as any other form of reparations after war. Resolution 1325 came about as a result of years of campaigning by the international peace community, and draws from a growing body of feminist scholarship which proposes that, when demilitarization begins after violent conflict ends, understanding the effects of gender ideologies is essential to successful peacebuilding.

About MDP3
The Multi--Donor Programme Phase 3 or MDP3 is the United Nation's (UN) commitment towards the peace process in Southern Philippines. It started out with the aim of assisting in the realization of the Peace Agreement of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in 1996.

CAT
28th session
16 May 2002
Afternoon

The Committee against Torture issued its conclusions and recommendations this afternoon on a third periodic report of the Russian Federation, urging among other things that prompt and impartial investigations be made into numerous allegations of torture of pre-trial detainees and that an independent committee be established

CAT
28th session
13 May 2002
Morning
Members Question Government Delegation on Allegations of High Rate of Police Abuse of Detainees; Army Violence against Civilians in Chechnya

The Committee against Torture began its review this morning of a third periodic report of the Russian Federation, querying Government representatives on reports that as many as half of pre-trial detainees were maltreated by police officers and that as many as 60 per cent were not ultimately convicted, suggesting that large numbers were being held in custody without sufficient reason.

As the official outcome document of the UN Special Session on Children, this report reviews the progress achieved and lessons learned in the context of the World Declaration and the Plan of Action of the World Summit for Children of 1991.

In addition, the report outlines a plan of action for the Member States in terms of creating a world fit for children, as well as follow-up actions and assessment to further their implementation.

Covering human rights abuses in 152 countries and territories around the world, this report provides studies of individual countries as well as regional summaries. In addition, challenges in the wake of September 11th are discussed, including:

- Violations of human rights and international humanitarian law resulting from intervention
- Introduction of measures curtailing human rights and civil  liberties in the West
- Backlash against Muslims and people of Middle Eastern or Asian origin world-wide