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A. Election seasons unearth deep-seated divisions within a nation and may trigger violence as a
result. Women’s participation in early warning mechanisms can mitigate this instability, as
evident in Kenya’s 2013 election, when citizens prevented extreme violence by using mobile
phone technologies to report violent incidents, dispel inaccurate rumors, and spread messages
of peace… [Read More ...]
B. The recent and historic peace process between the government of Colombia and the Fuerzas
Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) provides an opportunity for provisions for
various identity groups to be taken into account during implementation of the peace accords –
especially gender-sensitivity in demobilization and reintegration processes… [Read More ...]
C. Proactively seeking to achieve a gender balance when building U.S. Government (USG) trainer
teams will likely enhance counter weapons of mass destruction (WMD) training when
providing instruction on chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) consequence
management topics… [Read More ...]
D. Studies have shown that women have higher mortality rates than men during natural disasters,
due primarily to vulnerabilities arising from gender inequalities. Yet despite their increased
vulnerability and also their capacity to address disasters, women are often excluded from both
short-term humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) efforts as well as disaster risk
reduction (DRR) prevention measures… [Read More ...]
E. In 2010, a Norwegian Specialized Police Team deployed with the United Nations Stabilization
Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) in order to build the Haitian National Police’s capacity to
conduct investigations into sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV)... [Read More ...]
F. The United Nations (UN) Headquarters (HQ) staff learned that Congolese women’s voices
need to be heard in order for the UN to gain better situational awareness. Experiences of
women in a village in North Kivu were different than the men’s and they had more relevant
information about illegally armed groups, which they provided to the MONUSCO Military
Gender Adviser… [Read More ...]
G. A U.S. military communications group developed extensive radio programming for eastern
Afghanistan without taking into consideration the gender of listeners. After programming was
adjusted to account for this crucial missing element, many lives were saved in that region...
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H. A decorated Green Beret was almost forcibly retired from the military due to physically
confronting an American-backed Afghan police commander who raped a boy in Afghanistan
in 2011. The New York Times reported that Soldiers had been instructed to look the other
way to such incidents of child abuse, considering them ‘cultural practices’… [Read More ...]
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