Daily Links - 12 October

Women and female fighters offer unique perspectives for peace-building after conflict. The 8th part of the Toolkit discusses how essential these can be to disarmament and achieving sustainable peace.
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Human Rights Record of the US in 2004
(Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, english.people.com.cn, 03/03/05)
The United States of America: country of civil rights? The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2004 allows us to wonder.

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In 2004 Zhang Yishan recalled the specific policies promoting gender equality in the People’s Republic of China.

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From the archive: “A letter to the British people from a refugee activist” (Zrinka Bralo, openDemocracy.net, 11/12/03)
Zrinka Bralo arrived in the UK from a war-torn Yugoslavia. She discusses being a refugee in the UK, and examines British "nationhood".