Older people in displacement

As part of HelpAge International’s project on advancing the rights and protection of conflictaffected older South Sudanese migrants in Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan, HelpAge commissioned the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) to conduct a study on older South Sudanese displaced by conflict, both within South Sudan and across the border in Uganda and Ethiopia. This […]
2018 Report on equality between women and men in the EU

Gender equality is one of the fundamental values of the European Union (EU). The EU is dedicated not only to defending this right, but also to promoting gender equality within the Member States and across the world. This is the core aim of the European Commission’s Strategic engagement for gender equality 2016-20191. In addition, the […]
Gender analysis of conflict ToolKit

This toolkit is aimed at: -helping peacebuilding practitioners to integrate gender perspectives into conflict analysis processes -building understandings of the relationships between gender and conflict, particularly how gender norms influence conflict dynamics, and vice versa -providing the foundation for designing gender-sensitive peacebuilding programmes that are based on thorough gender analysis of conflict [gview file=”http://afakneswiah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/5893_gender-analysis-of-conflict-toolkit.pdf”]
Global Report ON Internal Displacement 2018

This year’s GRID is published as we mark the 20th anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. Two decades of investment in improvin the lives of internally displaced people (IDPs) have not, however, enabled us to find solutions for the majority of them. Progress in policy development has been made, but this report […]
Education, Identity and Rising Extremism: From Preventing Violent Extremism to Promoting Peace, Resilience, Equal Rights and Pluralism (PREP)

In November 2016, during ICAN’s fifth annual Women, Peace and Security forum, members of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) and other women-led organizations in over 30 countries analyzed the role of formal and informal education in contributing to enabling conditions and mitigating extremist violence. They also highlighted their own practical experiences and lessons […]
From the Ground Up: A Preliminary Dialogue on the Nexus of Economic Policy, Gender and Violent Extremism

The members of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) have consistently draw attention to this gap between policy intentions and realities on the ground. Their lived experiences of the economic dynamics in contexts affected by violent extremism, combined with desk research on the state of current policy and practice, and the multistakeholder Global Solutions […]
Background Note on Gender Equality, Nationality Laws and Statelessness 2019

Nationality laws which do not grant women equality with men in conferring nationality to their children are a cause of statelessness and a concern for UNHCR under its mandate to prevent and reduce statelessness1. Since 2012, UNHCR has issued an annual background note on gender equality in legal provisions in nationality laws which relate to […]
Wellbeing and Protracted Urban Displacement: Refugees and Hosts in Jordan and Lebanon

This project was supported by NWO-WOTRO, through the Security and Rule of Law in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings research programme. Additional funding was leveraged from Save the Children UK to support the literature review. [gview file=”http://afakneswiah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WURSHIJL_final_report_online.pdf”]
Gender Differences in Poverty and Household Composition through the Life-cycle

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to look at gender differences in poverty in the developing world. In the absence of individual-level poverty data, the paper looks at what can we learn in terms of gender differences by looking at the available individual and household level information. The estimates are based on the […]
LAW FOR THE RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

This Model Law is intended to guide and assist States and other actors to ensure the full and effective implementation of the ‘Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms’ (the UN Declaration) at the national level. [gview file=”http://afakneswiah.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/model_law_full_digital_updated_15june2016.pdf”]