![]() ![]() Yasmin Sooka, a human rights lawyer who chairs the Human Rights Violations Committee of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and Judge Albie Sachs of South Africa’s Constitutional Court delivered keynote addresses. Co-chairs of the conference were Anu Pillay, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Codou Bop of the organisation Women Living under Muslim Laws. Organiser was Meredeth Turshen of Rutgers University. ![]() ![]() The conference brought together 75 activist and academic participants from 16 African countries and from national and international non-governmental organizations as well as United Nations agencies. In this file you can find a selective summary of the conference outcomes. Gender sensitive reconstruction is too often misunderstood as building schools for girls as the example of Kabul, after the allied forces gained control over the city, demonstrates. Ten years later the outcomes are still very relevant and merit to be better known. In order to develop a gender analysis of post-conflict recovery and rebuilding, a conference was held in 1999 about “Women in the Aftermath of War and Armed Conflict”. ![]()
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