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Swiss Campaign to Ban Landmines -
2008
Incorporating Gender Into Mine
Action Programmes
Via Eldis: The relevance of gender
has taken time to impose itself clearly to anti landmine programmers, decision-makers,
implementers, donors, and stakeholders working in the area of mine action.The
main treaties regulating general mine action activities (the Mine Ban Treaty
and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and its additional Protocol
II) are gender blind and do not explicitly discuss the different impact
landmines can have on women, men, girls and boys. Moreover, mine action belongs
to a traditional "masculine", technical sector, one of war and
weapons, in which the relevance of gender might not appear clearly at first
sight. This report, with five country profiles, examines how issues of gender
might better be incorporated into mine action.
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