Protection and Human Rights

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01 Feb 2006

World
Civil-Military Coordination and UN Peacebuilding Operations

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— African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes
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This paper is concerned with the question whether a different set of principles and guidelines is required for civil-military coordination in UN peace operations or whether the existing guidelines for civil-military relations in humanitarian emergencies can remain relevant beyond the humanitarian context.

The paper analyses this question by first defining and developing a framework for UN peacebuilding operations, and contextualising the humanitarian emergency phase within this larger peacebuilding system. Thereafter the paper defines and analyses civil-military
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01 Feb 2006

World
UNCCD and Food Security for Pastoralists Within a Human Rights Context

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— Drylands Coordination Group
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The purpose of this study is to investigate how a rights-based approach can strengthen the Drylands Coordination Group's (DCG) work on ensuring food security for pastoralists. The concept of a "rights-based approach" is widely understood as integrating norms, standards and principles of the international human rights system into the plans, policies and processes of development. The norms and standards are those contained in international human rights treaties and declarations. The rights based principles include the following; accountability, participation,
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01 Feb 2006

World
Claiming Space: Reconfiguring Women's Roles In Post-Conflict Situations

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— Institute for Security Studies
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The paper explores the possibilities of using the institutional frameworks of the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) to include women in peace negotiations, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction efforts. It contends that women on the African continent have the benefit of using these international rights-based frameworks in their political efforts to achieve equality and political representation. The paper focuses on the violence that women experience in conflict situations and on state policies and practices as corrective
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01 Feb 2006

World
Does Good Governance Contribute to Pro-Poor Growth? A Review of the Evidence from Cross-Country Studies

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— International Food Policy Research Institute
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Even though both "good governance"and "pro-poor growth" have become important concepts in development thinking and practice, studies that assess to which extent and how good governance contributes to pro-poor growth are still relatively scarce. After reviewing the two concepts, this paper develops a conceptual framework that specifies the linkages between different aspects of governance and pro-poor growth.

Using this framework, the paper reviews a range of quantitative cross-country studies that include measures of
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01 Feb 2006

World
Displaced Women and Girls at Risk: Risk Factors, Protection Solutions and Resource Tools

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— Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
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This paper and accompanying checklists build on research, reports and tools developed by the University of New South Wales' Centre for Refugee Research to better understand what places women at risk, and how to respond to immediate
needs and prevent further harm to their safety and well-being.

In addition to supporting the work of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, this document is an effort to broaden the understanding of field-based practitioners in the humanitarian community about women and girls at risk so as to engage them in more effectively
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01 Feb 2006

World
Global Health Opportunities - 2006 Update on Priorities and US Investments

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— Global Health Council
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The Global Health Opportunities report highlights the priorities for improving health in the world's poorest communities based on objective analyses; identifies best buys for addressing these priorities effectively and a reasonable cost; lays out the global resources need from all sources; and, identifies concrete investments that the United States should make to continue leading the global community into an era of improved health across the world.

The Global Health Council worked with expert advisors to highlight four health focus areas, and one vital contributor
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01 Feb 2006

World
Gender, Conflict and Journalism - A Handbook for South Asia

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— UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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This handbook was conceived during the planning for the UNESCO-Nepal Press Institute first Roundtable on The Gender Perspective in Conflict Reporting, conducted April 7-9, 2004 in Kathmandu, Nepal. It is made by journalists, for journalists - especially those who recently entered the profession, and those who have experienced it enough to seek change.

The book examines the influence of gender and conflict on professional journalism, and vice versa. It provides a compilation of emerging ideas, strategies and professional
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01 Feb 2006

World
Remittances in Conflict and Crises: How Remittances Sustain Livelihoods in War, Crises and Transitions to Peace

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— International Peace Academy
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Conflicts, crises and disasters increase the number and categories of vulnerable people whose survival depends on assistance from outside sources. It has become increasingly apparent that migrant remittances have played a major role in helping individuals and communities affected by conflicts and disasters.

This report explores the impact of remittances destined for countries or populations living in contexts of conflict, war-to- peace transitions, and/or crises.
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01 Feb 2006

World
International Assistance to Countries Emerging from Conflict: A Review of Fifteen Years of Interventions and the Future of Peacebuilding

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— International Peace Academy
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With attention on the operationalization of the recent established UN Peacebuilding Commission this paper provides a review of the main features and trends in international assistance to countries emerging from conflict over the last fifteen years.

This paper argues that though progress with international peacebuilding is being made on the ground, the United Nations system and donor agencies have failed thus far to address satisfactorily three gaps: political leadership,strategic coordination, and a comprehensive financial mechanism.
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01 Feb 2006

World
Rights into Action: UNFPA implements Human Rights-Based Approach

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— UN Population Fund
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This advocacy booklet lays out the underlying principles of UNFPA's human rights work in the key thematic areas, including population and development, reproductive health, gender equality and women's empowerment. It explains how programming can advance human rights and shows the significant role that good practices and synergy among different actors can play in this regard.

The book is divided into two sections. The first describes the commitment of UNFPA to a human rights framework and discusses the rights-based approach to programming. The second describes
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01 Feb 2006

World
Management of Sick Children by Community Health Workers - Intervention Models and Programme Examples

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— UN Children's Fund
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An estimated 10.6 million children under five years of age still die each year from preventable or treatable diseases. Many of these deaths are attributable to the conditions targeted by Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI): acute respiratory infections, malaria, diarrhoea, measles and malnutrition. A large proportion of these deaths could be prevented through early, appropriate and low-cost treatment of sick children in the home or community, with antibiotics, antimalarials or oral rehydration therapy.

The joint report by UNICEF and the World
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01 Feb 2006

World
Developing the ECOWAS Civilian Peace Support Operations Structure: Report of an Expert's Workshop

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— Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre
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The aim of this report is to capture and collate the essence of the presentations and discussions at the expert's workshop, with particular attention to the proposed roadmap and the way forward for ECOWAS in developing its non-military mission capabilities.

The emphasis throughout the workshop was on the need for common understanding, co-operation and consensus. The presentation and elaboration of the roadmap is preceded by a brief summary and presentations.
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01 Feb 2006

World
Agreed Conclusions of the Commission on the Status of Women on the Critical Areas of Concern of the Beijing Platform for Action 1996-2005

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— UN Commission on the Status of Women
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The work of the Commission on the Status of Women is supported by the Division for the Advancement of Women, within the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The role of the Division is to prepare background documentation, provide services for meetings and conferences, assist in the formulation of policy recommendations, and monitor followup and implementation of the outcomes of the Commission.

In 1996, on the basis of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the Commission adopted
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01 Feb 2006

World
Stockholm Initiative on Disarmament Demobilisation Reintegration: Final report

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— Government of Sweden
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The report argues that a key-funding instrument for ddr processes should be multi-donor trust funds, with two windows. One for financing programmes aimed at ex-combatants ( men and women ) and one for affected communities. The latter should also be used to fund projects in support of non-combatants associated with armed groups ( i.e. women and children ) . In the absence of strong state and local capacity, the private sector and civil society can also provide supporting and sometimes substituting roles, especially in implementation of ddr programming. The
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01 Feb 2006

World
Analysis of the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) Programmes Existing in the World During 2005

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— School for a Culture of Peace
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The aim in this study is to analyse current DDR programmes, and not those of the past, in the conviction that those that are being carried out at the moment have a general profile that is quite novel, both in terms of the quantity of experiences existing, and the number of beneficiaries and the international context in which they are produced.

This study has been drawn up in a practical and didactic way, with the result that it may prove just as useful to read the conclusions as to study each of the twenty cases analysed, all of which
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01 Feb 2006

Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire: OCHA Daily Report 1 Feb 2006

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— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Political context
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, in a statement issued today, expressed his deep concern about reported threats against the United Nations personnel in Côte d'Ivoire, and the possibility of major violence being unleashed in Abidjan and other areas of Côte d'Ivoire. UNOCI, supported by Licorne as needed, will take all necessary measures to protect United Nations personnel and property, as well as populations under imminent threats in its areas of deployment. The Secretary-General wishes to remind, in the strongest possible terms,
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01 Feb 2006

Nepal
Statement by Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the CFSP, on Nepal

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— European Union
S036/06

Brussels, 1 February 2006 - Javier SOLANA, European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), issued the following statement today, one year after the dissolution of multi-party government in Nepal on 1 February 2005, and the assumption of direct power by King Gyanendra:

"One year on, I remain concerned by the lack of progress towards a return to democratic government at a time when Nepal faces many challenges to its stability.

The European Union has made clear on repeated occasions, as a long-standing friend and partner of Nepal, that

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01 Feb 2006

Côte d'Ivoire
Secretary-General says attacks targeting UN in Côte d'Ivoire will not be tolerated, reminds top officials of personal responsibility to prevent violence

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— UN Secretary-General
SG/SM/10333, AFR/1322
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about reported threats against the United Nations personnel in Côte d'Ivoire, and the possibility of major violence being unleashed in Abidjan and other areas of Côte d'Ivoire. The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI), supported by Licorne as needed, will take all necessary measures to protect United Nations personnel and property, as well as populations under imminent threats in its areas of deployment.

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01 Feb 2006

Nepal
Nepal: Time for king to relinquish power

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— Human Rights Watch
Wave of Repression in Year Since Coup

(New York, February 1, 2006) - One year after King Gyanendra unilaterally assumed full executive authority, the human rights situation in Nepal has dramatically spiraled downwards, Human Rights Watch said today. It called on the king to return power to an elected civilian government and to resume the role of constitutional monarch assigned to him by the constitution.

Since the king's coup on February 1, 2005, government military and security agencies have summarily suspended

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01 Feb 2006

Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka: CHA monthly situation report Jan 2006 - Northern region

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— Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies
The General Situation
Jaffna- The general situation has worsened due to the undeclared war between the Security forces and LTTE. A state of fear and uncertainty prevails all over the peninsula due to constant attacks made by the two parties. Innocent people are being abducted and already an estimated 25-30 people have been reported missing and their whereabouts' unknown. Normal activity has also been hampered with shops and business regularly closing due to harthals and fear, attendance in both schools and universities has also been severely affected, while

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