Engendering Compensation: Making Refugee Women Count!
Prepared for the Expert and Advisory Services
Fund International Development Research Centre
by Nahla Abdo
March 2000 - Ottawa
This work was carried out with the aid of a grant
from the Expert and Advisory Services Fund which is
administered by the International Development Research
Centre, Ottawa, Canada and financially supported by
the Canadian International Development Agency in cooperation
with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
1) Introduction
2) Defining Gender
3) Why Do We Need a Gender
Perspective in Compensation?
4) Contextualizing Compensation
5) A Gender Perspective on
Palestinian Refugees
6) Gender Compensation: The
International Context
7) Reconstructing Peace: Engendering
the Compensation Process
7.1)
Engendering the Process of Refugee Compensation Negotiations
7.2)
Approaching Palestinian Women’s Compensation:
Gender Reconstruction of Compensation Modalities
7.2.1)
Engendering Compensation for Individual Loss of Property
7.2.2)
Engendering Compensation for Individual Moral Loss
Annex
I: Gender Reconstruction of Compensation Modalities |