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Human Rights: A Basic Handbook for UN Staff
This handbook has been developed to assist United Nations colleagues understand and appreciate the human rights system within the context of the United Nations Organization. In particular, it seeks...
Guidelines for Field Staff for Promoting Reintegration in Transition Situations
This handbook provides basic strategic assistance to guide field personnel in promoting the sustainable recovery of war-affected communities during transitions, including the reintegration of...
Amnesty International Annual Report 2001
Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
This manual is intended to serve as an international guideline for the assessment of persons who allege torture and ill-treatment , for investigating cases of alleged torture, and for reporting...
Demobilisation & Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Post-war and Transition Countries
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Human Rights Watch World Report 2001
This annual review of human rights practices covers developments in 70 countries over the period November 1999 to November 2000. With respect to particular countries, issues examined include: -...
Sexual Exploitation of Child Soldiers: An Exploration and Analysis of Global Dimensions and Trends
With children under the age of 18 serving in armed forces and armed groups around the world being more vulnerable to serious physical and psychological violence, this report offers an initial attempt...
Landmine Problem in the World
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Disarmament as Humanitarian Action: A Discussion on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
This report examines the humanitarian benefits of disarmament, aiming to show that disarmament, whether of weapons of mass destruction or small arms, is first and foremost a question of human...
Small Arms Survey 2001: Profiling the Problem
This annual report provides a guide to all aspects of the problem of small arms and light weapons, focusing on both small arms themselves (production, transfers, stockpiles), and on the processes and...
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UN Plan - Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) 2001-2002
Executive Summary Congo's decade of political violence has worsened a trend of stagnated development. The massive displacement caused by the last of three civil wars in 1998-1999 led to epidemic...
Gender Equality and Peacebuilding: An Operational Framework
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The Problem of Small Arms in Developing Countries
This document examines the effect of small arms on development, and highlights the importance of combating the uncontrolled spread and misuse of these weapons as a central development-policy concern...
Towards Gender Mainstreaming in Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management
With the underlying assumption that gender equality is an essential prerequisite for any sustainable development and peace-building activity, this paper offers an analytical framework and guidelines...
Conflict and Aid: Enhancing the Peacebuilding Impact of International Engagement
This paper examines whether humanitarian assistance in war zones can support efforts to promote conflict prevention and peace-building. Its four main parts provide the following information: -...
Serbia + 1 more
Kosovo: Minorities in danger
As the newly elected municipal councils in Kosovo take up their functions on 1st January 2001 and find themselves entrusted, in particular, with the management of primary health care, Médecins du...
Mine Action in Afghanistan receives additional funding
New funding of over USD 2.5 million has cushioned the budget shortfall of the United Nations Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan (MAPA). This amount will allow some of the clearance organisations...
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Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC): Programs Support in Afghanistan (8 December 2000)
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Forced Migration Review No. 9 - Gender and Displacement
Forced Migration Review provides a forum for the regular exchange of practical experience, information and ideas between researchers, refugees and internally displaced people, and those who work with...