Promoting IDPs' and Women's Voices in Post-Conflict Georgia

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Principle 18.1 – Adequate standard of livingPrinciple 18.2 – Authorities should provide:a. Waterb. Shelterc. Clothingd. Medical services and sanitationPrinciple 22 – No discrimination in:a. Freedom of thoughtb. Right to workc. “Right to associate freely and participate equally in community affairs”d. “Right to vote and to participate in governmental and public affairs,including the right to have access to the means necessary to exercise thisrighte. Right to communicate in a language they understandPrinciple 23 – Right to educationSection IV – Principles relating to humanitarian assistancePrinciple 24 – Right to humanitarian assistance; no discrimination in how it isdeliveredSection V – Principles relating to return, resettlement and reintegrationPrinciple 28.1 – State has to allow for voluntary returnPrinciple 28.2 – IDPs should participate in planning and managing return orresettlement and reintegrationPrinciple 29.1 – IDPs who have returned or resettled in another part of thecountry shouldn’t be discriminated againstPrinciple 29.2 – State should help IDPs recover lost possessions and property orprovide compensation113
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CONTENTSAcronyms and Abbreviations
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYInternally displac
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THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL RESOURCE CE
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fair reporting on politically sensi
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people-to-people diplomacy efforts
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and the Guiding Principles, in Febr
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an effort to address these stereoty
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The identities, perceptions, and re
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even IDPs themselves. The HRBA seek
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Karaleti settlement, and Potskho-Et
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displacement differently, with men
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on an equal footing with men in for
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The Ministry for Internally Displac
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Defender’s Office) and leave no r
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prominent national level IDP NGO wo
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in the past but none have yet to be
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Grassroots Peacebuilding EffortsCiv
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esettlement and local integration h
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ability to contribute to the new Ac
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Women convened a working group to a
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were involved, in addition to “wo
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towards addressing this population
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waves. 224 A Conciliation Resources
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governing shelter requirements. 238
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esults of eviction on those who did
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FINDINGSSIPA team member Drilon Gas
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unique opportunities exist for them
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an important opportunity for women
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early morning…when I was going to
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our office to investigate these iss
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