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Eileen Pittaway
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Correction to: Anger and Despair—Naming the ‘Elephants in the Room’—2012–2016
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Interlogue
This interlogue is the division between Stage One of the story, of having rape in conflict named as a war crime in international law and policy, and Stage Two, when Linda joined, and we worked to have these ad...
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Epilogue—The Move from Rhetoric to Reality—2021–2022
In this journey of 33 years of activism, we took you on a journey to have the prevention of rape and sexual abuse of women enshrined in law and policy. We engaged with refugee women in the fight to implement t...
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Prologue: Why This Story Has to Be Told—A Small Cog in a Large Wheel of International Advocacy
This prologue was written to guide the reader through the complexities of our advocacy journey with, and for, refugee women and girls, to address the endemic rape, sexual abuse and sexual torture, which they e...
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From the Local to the International: Domestic Politics and International Advocacy 1990‒1992
The next stage of the journey found me unexpectedly appointed as an ‘Expert’ and invited to a meeting of the UN Commission for the Status of Women (CSW) to present the findings of the research. This amazing ex...
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Survivors, Protectors, Providers: Refugee Women Speak Out from Gender Mainstreaming to the Regional Dialogues—2009–2011
As we moved forward the dangers of ‘gender mainstreaming’ as a policy solution were challenged. The numbers of refugees and forcibly displaced persons spiralled upwards, while resources and political will to r...
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Intersectionality, Identity and Refugee Women-2001–2002: ‘I Will Give You a Prize If You Can Find a Woman in This Camp Who Has Not Been Raped’
A packed chapter. Eileen becomes the Director of the Centre for Refugee Research, ANCORW joins us at UNSW, and we hosted a National Conference to review Bei**g plus Five, and an International Conference on Re...
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Refugee Women From the Margins to the Centre—2017–2020
We explain the significance of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants (NYD), and the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). We lobbied for a ‘Gender Audit’ of the proceedings when the strong text of the...
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The Power of Women Speaking Out: A Risk Assessment and Response Tool, a CSW Resolution and a UNHCR Conclusion—2005–2008
We were drawn into the response in Sri Lanka following the devastating 2004 tsunami. There were clear parallels between the experience of refugee women and those of women post-disaster, in particular rape, sex...
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Opening Pandora’s Box: Rape, Sexual Abuse and Refugee Women: 1989–1990
Our story begins. In 1985, a group of Australian women attended the United Nations (UN) Third World Conference on Women in Nairobi and returned determined to respond to the urgent needs of refugee women and gi...
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Rape as a War Crime: The Road to the 4th World Conference, Bei**g 1993‒1995
In re-examining our data, we had a ‘lightbulb’ moment when we realised that men in positions of authority used the term ‘Only Rape’ to describe the sexual abuse of refugee women and girls. Realising that we ne...
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Bei**g + 5 the Never-Ending Story of Rape and Sexual Torture—1996–2000
I (Linda) join the story and describe how I became involved. Our goals were to monitor the gains made at the Bei**g Conference and influence their implementation. The next major opportunity was ‘Bei**g plus ...
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Anger and Despair—Naming the ‘Elephants in the Room’—2012–2016
A chapter of reflection and a miracle! We began this stage of the journey disappointed because after the hype and promise of the Dialogues, very little changed to address the situation of refugee women and gir...
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Refugee Women at Risk and Reciprocal Research: ‘Stop Stealing Our Stories’: Beyond Do No Harm—2003–2004
Preparing for the research project, we examined the differences in the refugee women’s groups in Kenya and Thailand. We ate humble pie as we were castigated by women’s groups in Thailand for not consulting the...
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An Uncomfortable Fit: Australia’s Refugee Policy in a Regional Context
Attempting to compare refugee policy in Australia and Malaysia is like trying to compare apples and oranges. Australia is a developed, multicultural society that relies on a large government-sponsored program ...
