Keyword Archives: women
Understanding Breast “Ironing”
UNDERSTANDING BREAST “IRONING”: A STUDY OF THE METHODS, MOTIVATIONS, AND OUTCOMES OF BREAST FLATTENING PRACTICES IN CAMEROON Breast “ironing” or “flattening” is a practice that impacts 1:4 Cameroonian girls and women, in which a heated object such as a grinding … Read More
Posted in Briefing Papers
Keywords: gender, women
Sex and Age Matter
Humanitarian aid is largely guided by anecdotes rather than evidence. Currently, the humanitarian system shows significant weaknesses in data collection, analysis and response in all stages of a crisis or emergency. As a result, the present humanitarian system is much less evidence-driven than it should be and than it would like to be.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: children, data collection, evidence-based practice, humanitarian action, women
Reparations as a Means for Recognizing and Addressing Crimes and Grave Rights Violations Committed Against Children during Situations of Armed Conflict and Under Authoritarian Regimes
By Dyan Mazurana and Khristopher Carlson. 2009. Ruth Rubio (ed.) Gender and Reparations (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge).
Posted in Book Chapters, Publications
Keywords: reparations, women
Forced Marriage within the LRA, Uganda
“Forced Marriage within the Lord’s Resistance Army, Uganda” demonstrates that forced marriage includes acts codified as crimes in international customary and human rights law. These crimes include rape, sexual slavery, enforced pregnancy, forced labor, enslavement, and torture. However, the crime of forced marriage is unique from the above mentioned crimes, as it contains the element of forced conjugality.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: children, conflict, human rights, justice, war, women
The State of Female Youth in Northern Uganda
Youth have been both the primary victims and the primary actors in the twenty-two year war between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army. It was not clear, however, exactly who is suffering, how much, and in what ways. For instance, researchers knew little about the experience of youth: what is the magnitude, incidence, and nature of the violence, trauma, and suffering of youth in northern Uganda? An understanding of the effects of war on women and girls was particularly lacking, whether they were abducted or affected by the violence in other ways.
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: children, conflict, human rights, humanitarian action, justice, SWAY, women
A Way Forward for Assisting Women and Girls in Northern Uganda
Little is known about the short and long term effects of war on youth. Yet without an understanding of who is at risk of violence (and from whom), the factors that affect violence and acceptance, a sense of the long-term impacts of war violence, and a strong grasp of the factors that protect youth, how can we design more effective prevention, protection, rehabilitation and reintegration programs?
Posted in Publications, Reports
Keywords: children, conflict, human rights, war, women
Bulgur Marriages and Big Women: Navigating Relatedness in Guinean Refugee Camps
By Lacey Gale. 2007. Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 80 no.2: 355-379.
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: marriage, refugees, women
Afghan Women, Afghan Livelihoods
By Elizabeth Stites. In Adam Pain and Jackie Sutton (eds.), Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 2007.
Posted in Book Chapters, Publications
Keywords: livelihoods, women
Beating Wives and Protecting Culture: Violent Responses to Women’s Awakening of their Rights
By Khristopher Carlson and Dyan Mazurana. Humanitarian Practice Network, November/December, 2006.
Posted in Peer-Reviewed Articles, Publications
Keywords: human rights, internally-displaced persons, women
Movement on the Margins
The protracted conflict in northern Uganda has created profound insecurity, brought the widespread loss of agrarian livelihoods, and pushed nearly two million people into internal displacement camps. With the current cessation of hostilities between the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army and the government of Uganda, many people are increasingly on the move in northern Uganda, whether moving in and out of camps on a daily or seasonal basis, moving between camps and semi-settled villages, or returning to their pre-war homes.