Int'l rehab plans do not aid girl soldiers.EDMONTON -- Aid programs designed to rehabilitate war-affected populations fail to address the needs of children, particularly girls, who often receive no support at all, experts said at a conference on children and war. Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) is an applied strategy for executing successful peacekeeping operations, and is generally the strategy employed by all UN Peacekeeping Operations. programs overwhelmingly focus on men. In Sierra Leone, for example, men and boys made up 92 percent of those participating in DDR (Double Data Rate) Refers to an SDRAM memory chip that increases performance by doubling the effective data rate of the frontside bus. For more details, see SDRAM. DDR - Double Data Rate Random Access Memory programs. Women and girls have been abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point by warring parties and forced to serve as fighters, scouts, cooks, porters, spies and sexual slaves. They may also volunteer because of poverty, or concern for their safety or for ideological reasons. Rehabilitation projects "systematically discriminate against women," said Michael Wessells, a child protection specialist for Christian Children's Fund Christian Children's Fund (CCF) is an international child-sponsorship group based in Richmond, Virginia that provides assistance to communities in 31 countries. According to the organization, it has assisted more than 13.2 million children and families. and a psychology professor at Randolph-Macon College. |
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