RESOLUTION 1325 IN ACTION
Last Updated: 15 November 2007

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For a list of NGO, UN and governmental resources on 1325, visit PeaceWomen’s 1325 Resources Index

CIVIL SOCIETY AND NGO INITIATIVES

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

• WOMEN ADVOCATING FOR RESOLUTION 1325 IN THE DRC - A LIST OF CONCRETE ACTIONS
List compiled by Aningina Tshefu Bibiane and the PeaceWomen Project, October 2002
Aningina Tshefu Bibiane with the help of the PeaceWomen Project compiled a list of concrete actions women in the DRC have taken to advocate for implementation of Resolution 1325. The purpose of the list is to demonstrate the many concrete ways women in DRC have used 1325 and worked for its implementation.

• RESOLUTION 1325 SENSITIZATION AND TRAINING CAMPAIGN
Rights and Democracy (Montreal, Canada) in partnership with local, grassroots organizations, 2003
Rights and Democracy, in collaboration with Congolese non-governmental organizations coordinated a Resolution 1325 sensitization and training campaign. Throughout 2003, consultations were held in Kinshasa, Lumumbashi in Kasi east and west, Bandundu and in the lower Congo region. With the support of MONUC (the UN Peacekeeping Operation in DRC), the resolution was translated into local dialects and printed on brochures (see Collaborations).

The above information comes from:

Implementing Resolution 1325, an NGO Perspective: Lessons Learned and Realities from the Field
Isabelle Solon-Helal, Rights and Democracy, February 2004
This paper, which examines the implementation of 1325 in the context of the peace process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was presented in a panel organized by the Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group, of the Canadian Peacebuiding Coordinating Committee (CPCC) during the Gender and Human Security Conference, organized by the Centre for Developing Areas Studies, McGill University, Canada (February 2004).

Mano River Region

• MANO RIVER WOMEN’S PEACE NETWORK (MARWOPNET)
The Mano River Women's Peace Network (MARWOPNET) is a network of more than 100 civil society groups, particularly women’s associations, located in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. The Network, created in 2000 with support from the Economic Community of West African States, Organization of African Unity and the UN System under an initiative of the NGO Femmes Africa Solidarité, aims to advance the role of women in promoting peace, security and development in the Mano River sub-region.

• Website launched in Summer 2004: http://www.marwopnet.org
The website will be expanded in the near future to include highlights from MARWOPNET's upcoming newsletter, Voices of Peace, featuring poetry, testimonies, drawings, case studies and other information collected from MARWOPNET-Guinea's eight field offices. Located in prefectures on the borders with Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Cote d'Ivoire, these new offices opened their doors in February 2004 to promote peace-building activities at the grassroots level.

• FEMMES AFRICA SOLIDARITE (FAS) For a full profile of FAS, CLICK HERE.
FAS’s experiences of the effects of war on women in the Mano River and Great Lakes regions contributed to the adoption of Resolution 1325. Since its adoption, FAS has used Resolution 1325 as a tool in its work as well as contribute to the monitoring of this resolution through the NGO-CSW Working Group on Peace in Geneva, which FAS has chaired since its establishment in December 2000. FAS’ activities related to Resolution 1325 include:

• Nairobi Training Workshop
Nairobi, Kenya, 15-19 February 2002
FAS in collaboration with Women as Partners for Peace in Africa DRC chapter (WOPPA-DRC) organized the Nairobi Training Workshop to build Congolese women’s capacity for and technique of negotiation in preparation for the Inter-Congolese Dialogue in Sun City, South Africa, and to harmonize the views of women from all sides in order to engender the peace process. The organizers distributed Resolution 1325 in pamphlet form to all of the participants. For more information about FAS' work with 1325, email info@fasngo.org.

Nigeria

• CONSULTATION ON 1325
Gender and Peacebuilding Program, International Alert (UK), 2002
This consultation was facilitated by International Alert as part of the Gender Peace Audit Project of its Gender and Peacebuilding Program. According to IA, these consultations with women and women’s organizations “aim to bridge the gap between global policy and the practical realities faced by women in regional, national and post-conflict contexts.” In addition to Nigeria, consultations were carried out in the Caucasus and South Asia (Nepal). For more information, contact Nicola Johnston at njohnston@international-alert.org.

Rwanda

• COMMITTEE ON 1325
PeaceWomen is waiting for more information about this initiative. If anyone has information to share, please contact sarah@peacewomen.org.

Uganda

• ISIS-WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CROSS-CULTURAL EXCHANGE (ISIS-WICCE)
Kampala, Uganda
Isis-WICCE has led and collaborated in many advocacy trainings – at the national, regional and international level - on Resolution 1325. Resolution 1325 also forms a central part in Isis-WICCE’s other trainings and programs. For information about their trainings and other work, email: isis@starcom.co.ug, tel: 256-41-543953, Fax: 256-41-543954.

West Africa

• West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP):
“For WANEP, Resolution 1325 is an advocacy tool that is fundamental to our campaign and movement for the inclusion, representation and active participation of women in peace, security and development issues, particularly in formal peace negotiations, in the sub region.”

• Voices of Women Radio Program: BROADCAST IN Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, and Senegal
WANEP, Ongoing
WANEP’s radio program has national stations in Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, and Senegal. The primary objective of the program is to increase women's awareness of, and promote their participation in, issues of peace and security. The radio program contextualizes the provisions of 1325 to address the local realities of women in their different countries. Women listeners are encouraged to call-in and ask questions or contribute to the discussion, debate or drama.

• Community Women’s Peacebuilding Manual – Women in Peacebuilding Course
WANEP's West Africa Peacebuilding Institute (WAPI), Ongoing
WANEP has developed a Community Women's Peacebuilding Manual which is used in their ‘Women in Peacebuilding’ course at WAPI. One key component of this manual is 1325. To make 1325 interesting, comprehensive and relevant, participants are encouraged to act out role plays on the different thematic areas of the resolution, including women and conflict, women and violence, role of women and DDRR processes, refugee women, and women in decision and policy-making.”

• UPDATED: Translating 1325
Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET), West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), Ongoing
Due to the high illiteracy rates among West African women, WIPNET has translated Resolution 1325 and other relevant legal instrument into local languages such as Hausa, Krio and Dioula. They are in the process of raising funds for additional translations.

El Salvador

• TRAINING ON RESOLUTION 1325 IN EL SALVADOR
WILPF-El Salvador (Liga Internacional de Mujeres por la Paz y la Libertad, LIMPAL) and collaborative partners, 21 September 2002
WILPF El Salvador (LIMPAL) and collaborative partners held a training on Resolution 1325 to address the necessity for women's participation in all dimensions and in all levels of peace efforts, negotiations, reconstruction, reconciliation, re-population and war prevention and to brainstorm ways to implement 1325 in El Salvador. Participants included representatives from the judicial system, women's groups and feminist organizations, universities, programs of the European Union, media and human rights groups. According to LIMPAL, it was a very important meeting, for most of the participants knew little or nothing about Resolution 1325, the implications or about implementation. For more information, contact WILPF El Salvador at: martawilpf@yahoo.com. LIMPAL-El Salvador has organized a number of other seminars on 1325 since 2002. For more information about these seminars, email: martawilpf@yahoo.com.

• NEW - OSCE Seminar: Women in Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management
Organized by the Permanent Delegation of Sweden to the OSCE in co-operation with Folke Bernadotte Academy
20 June 2005, Vienna, Austria
At the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Annual Security Review Conference, held in Vienna in June 2004, Sweden put forward a proposal to arrange a seminar on women in crisis management. UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security will constitute the basis for this event, which will be held on 20 June in Vienna.

The overall objective of this expert seminar is to promote the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in the OSCE. There is a clear role for the OSCE in doing so, as manifested in the 2004 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion of Gender Equality.

A further purpose of the seminar is to exchange information about women’s participation in conflict prevention and crisis management, to exchange experience and lessons learned from participation in conflict prevention and international missions, and to discuss and identify possible actions in order to implement UNSCR 1325 in the OSCE.

For more information, contact Anneli von Wachenfeldt, Folke Bernadotte Academy, at: anneli.wachenfeldt@folkebernadotteacademy.se.

Caucasus

• CONSULTATION ON RESOLUTION 1325
Gender and Peacebuilding Program, International Alert, 2002
This consultation was facilitated by International Alert (IA) as part of the Gender Peace Audit Project of its Gender and Peacebuilding Program. According to IA, these consultations with women and women’s organizations “aim to bridge the gap between global policy and the practical realities faced by women in regional, national and post-conflict contexts.” In addition to the Caucasus, consultations were carried out in Nigeria and South Asia (Nepal). For more information, contact Nicola Johnston at njohnston@international-alert.org.

France

• Petition on 1325
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) France National Section, Ongoing
This petition, to be sent to the French government, encourages French citizens to mobilize for implementation of 1325. WILPF is circulating the petition with excerpts of the resolution. The petition is also being circulated in Geneva, Switzerland, the location of WILPF’s international headquarters.

Germany

• WOMEN’S SECURITY COUNCIL IN GERMANY
Founded in March 2003
The Women’s Security Council is a network of approximately 50 women peace activists, peace researchers, and representatives of political institutions and NGOs, founded after Germany began its two-year term on the UN Security Council. Organizations represented in the Women’s Security Council include the Bonn International Center for Conversion, the WILPF German National Section, Women’s Network for Peace, and the German Committee of UNIFEM. The network advocates for national implementation of 1325, and incorporation of a gender perspective in the national foreign policy and security agenda, and it works to monitor the activities of the German government, as a member of the UN Security Council (Jan. 2003-Dec. 2004).

• Alternative Report on Germany’s Implementation of 1325
October 2004
http://un1325.de/fsr.htm

• Website: http://un1325.de/fsr.htm
The website outlines the mission and activities of the group, including the 1325 postcard campaign and “Plan of Action for Accelerating Implementation of Resolution 1325,” and provides an online discussion forum to debate 1325 and its implementation.

• Postcard Campaign: “There are 1325 reasons to implement UN-resolution 1325”
The Women’s Security Council is organizing to send “1325 reasons” to the German government to push for the implementation of the resolution, and to increase the knowledge of and about 1325. During the campaign, well-known intellectuals and artists are coming forward and presenting their reasons for the need to implement 1325. The Women’s Security Council will collect the postcards until 1325 reasons have been received, at which point they will be sent to the German government.

• Plan of Action for Accelerating Implementation of Resolution 1325
2003
The Women’s Security Council created an expert panel on gender-sensitive foreign policy and security agendas, and launched an action plan for accelerating implementation of 1325. In the action plan the group suggests that the German government focus on a few specific issues in the short and medium-term to speed up the implementation of 1325. This action plan was sent to the German government and Permanent Mission of Germany to the UN in New York in preparation for the Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security in October 2003.

Kosovo

• WOMEN IN KOSOVA WORKING ON RESOLUTION 1325
“Women in Kosova have not only translated 1325 into local languages, but have also translated it out of ‘UN language’ into more accessible terms. Among their many initiatives, they negotiated with a women’s group in Italy and got some financial support from the UN to sponsor about 20 shows on TV explaining the resolution. They also organized several roundtables, not only in Kosova, but also in Macedonia and Albania, and built a network around the resolution." [The above information comes from Carol Cohn’s “Feminist peacemaking: In Resolution 1325, the United Nations requires the inclusion of women in all peace planning and negotiation,” Women’s Review of Books Special Issue on Women, War, and Peace, February 2004]. PeaceWomen is currently waiting to receive more information about these activities.

• Memo Regarding the United Nations Security Council Delegation in Kosova
Kosova Women’s Network, Prishtina, Kosova, 15 December 2002
This memo, which was written to the UN Security Council Delegation to Kosova (December 2002), includes an analysis of a June 2001 UN Security Council Delegation to Kosova from the perspective of Resolution 1325.

Netherlands

• Engaging with EU Police Mission in Bosnia
WILPF Netherlands, 2003
WILPF Netherlands organized, in co-operation with the NVR (Dutch Council of Women) and the Dutch branch of the EWL (European Women's Lobby), an expert meeting on the implementation of 1325 in the work of the European Union Police Mission (EUPM) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Experts included men and women from the military, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense, the police force, and the Dutch Parliament.

Northern Ireland

• SCR 1325 on Trial in Northern Ireland - Report
Northern Ireland Women’s European Platform, 17 November 2004
A unique event took place at Stormont, the parliament buildings of the Northern Ireland Assembly [17 November 2004]. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 was put on trial for its effectiveness. The trial was organised by the Northern Ireland Women's European Platform, NIWEP, an umbrella NGO with membership groups across a wide range of civil society and social partners in Northern Ireland. NIWEP works with its members to strengthen the place of women in civil society in policy and decision-making and in all women's roles in their communities.

NIWEP is now prioritizing the need to disseminate information about SCR 1325 to women and men in Northern Ireland. They have sought support for their work on SCR 1325 by becoming a partner of the UK Joint Working Group on SCR 1325, a network that shares good practices regarding SCR 1325, and works toward its full implementation.

Norway

• NEW: Forum Norway 1325
Forum Norway 1325 was established in 2005 in order to secure the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325. Several organizations and institutions in Norway participate in the forum, which was initiated by the Norway National Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). The forum is open to organisations, institutions and individuals who are interested in working for the implementation of the resolution. Forum Norway 1325 seeks active dialogue with the Department of Foreign Affairs and advocates for strong and accountable implementation of the resolution and its objectives by the Norwegian Government.

The forum consists of:
The Norwegian section of WILPF – www.ikff.no
The Centre for Gender Equality in Norway – www.likestilling.no
Care, Norway - www.care.no
Norwegian People’s Aid – www.folkehjelp.no
Amnesty International, Norway – www.amnesty.no
FOKUS (Forum for Women and Development) – www.fokuskvinner.no

To contact Forum Norway 1325: Tel: +47 24 05 59 50; E-mail: lene.nilsen@likestilling.no, rachel.eapen.paul@likestilling.no.

Sweden

• QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT RESOLUTION 1325
Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
KTK has developed answers to a series of questions often posed to them concerning Resolution 1325:
1. Why is it important that women take part in peace negotiations?
2. Why are women better suited for peace negotiations than men?
3. Why are women particularly vulnerable in war?
4. What can be done to observe the special needs of women during and after a war?
5. Why do we need special conventions and resolutions for women?
6. What is the women’s convention?
7. What is a security council resolution?
8. How do you punish a country that violates a security council resolution?

To contact Kvinna till Kvinna, email: info@iktk.se.

• Training Swedish Peacekeepers
Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, Ongoing
KTK trainings for Swedish military personnel integrate 1325 by addressing the following types of issues: how to support the women in the Swedish battalion when other countries’ high ranked military personnel discredit them or chose not to address them; how to prevent a culture that allows sexual harassment; how to treat women in the local population; going to brothels, having girlfriends from the local civilian population; and how to treat female colleagues. For more information, contact Kvinna till Kvinna at: info@iktk.se.

• NGO NETWORK: Operation 1325
Founded in 2003
Operation 1325 is a network of 6 women’s organizations based in Sweden: the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Swedish nation section, Women for Peace, the Swedish UNIFEM Committee, the National Organization for the Organizations for Immigrant Women, the Swedish Ecumenical Women’s Council and the Swedish Women’s Lobby. The principal aim of Operation 1325 is to assist implementing 1325, with a special focus on the prevention of conflict and armed conflict in Sweden and internationally. The principal focus is on education and capacity-building.

• COURSE - Women Building Peace with 1325
WILPF Sweden, Ongoing
This course is aimed primarily at immigrant women. Students discuss how the resolution can and should be used. The resolution and women’s rights issues are also discussed in relation to humanitarian law, conflict management values and attitudes. The course structure includes lectures, seminars and group discussions.

UK

• 1325 ON TRIAL: A TRIBUNAL INVESTIGATING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSC RESOLUTION 1325
Organized by the Women’s National Commission (UK), Side Event at the 48th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, USA, 3 March 2004
The Women’s National Commission hosted an event entitled “1325 on Trial” to examine the implementation of 1325. Modeled on the format of a tribunal, the audience heard from Ms. Isha Dyfan of the International Women’s Tribune Center, as judge, Ambassador Hattie Babbitt of the Hunt Alternatives Fund/Women Waging Peace as counsel ‘prosecuting’ Resolution 1325, Canadian Senator Mobina Jaffer, Chair of the Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security, as counsel ‘defending’ Resolution 1325, and the testimonies of six women witnesses from different regions of the world. The audience voted resoundingly against SC 1325, agreeing that it has not been well implemented. Judge Dyfan then concluded the tribunal with her “sentencing” – a series of recommendations for next steps. For more information, contact the Women’s National Commission at: wnc@dti.gsi@gov.uk, ph 020 7276 2555, fax 020 7276 2563.

• BRITISH FEDERATION OF WOMEN GRADUATES (BFWG) ADOPT RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF RESOLUTION 1325
British Federation of University Women Graduates, July 2003
The British Federation of University Women Graduates adopted a resolution in support of Resolution 1325 at their Annual General Meeting in July 2003. Since then, members have received regular reports on the progress of implementation of 1325 in their NEWS magazine from BFWG member Lorna Archer (clarcher@globalnet.co.uk). At the 2004 Annual General Meeting in July 2004, they addressed the progress of 1325 since the BFWG’s resolution was adopted in 2003. For more information, contact Lorna Archer at: clarcher@globalnet.co.uk. BFWG website: http://www.bfwg.org.uk/.

• IRAQ AND UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325: A LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER BLAIR
WILPF UK, 17 April 2003
The UK Section of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom sent a letter to Prime Minster Blair urging the implementation of Resolution 1325 in the post-war reconstruction of Iraq. This letter was adapted as a press release and circulated widely to the UK press.

Canada

• GENDER AND PEACEBUILDING WORKING GROUP, CANADIAN PEACEBUILDING COORDINATING COMMITTEE (CPCC)
Suzanne Taylor, Coordinator, Tel: 613-241-3446, Fax: 613-241-4846, Email: suzanne@peacebuild.ca.
Website: http://www.peacebuild.ca/working/?load=gender

• Alternative Report on Canada's Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group, CPCC, October 2004 - Available soon
In order to complement official reporting by the Government of Canada, the Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group has produced an ‘alternative’ report. This report assesses progress by the government; includes good practices and missed opportunities; and examines whether Canada’s defense, diplomatic and development efforts are consistent with Resolution 1325. The report also documents NGO initiatives and provide profiles of civil society efforts to implement the Resolution.

• Canadian Civil Society Response to Canada's Report on the Implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group, CPCC, October 2004 - Available soon
In addition to the above alternative report, the Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group has produced a 3-page direct response to the official report submitted by the Canadian government to the Secretary-General in preparation for his report on implementation of 1325.

• 1325 Fact Sheets (English and French)
The GPWG has produced three fact sheets on Resolution 1325, with basic background information about the resolution and action ideas:
- “UN Security Council Resolution 1325 for girls and young women”
- “UN Security Council Resolution 1325 Fact Sheet: Understanding UN Security Council Resolution 1325”
- “UN Security Council Resolution 1325 Fact Sheet: How can we use Resolution 1325?”

• Peace and Security: How it affects Women in Canada
Prepared by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) in collaboration with the Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group (CPCC), coming soon
CRIAW Website: http://www.criaw-icref.ca/indexFrame_e.htm

• 1325 Postcard Campaign
Lead-Up to International Women’s Day, March 2004
In the lead-up to International Women’s day 2004, the GPWG initiated a cross Canada Women, Peace and Security postcard campaign, intended to raise public and political awareness for the protection of the rights of girls and women in times of war, increased involvement of women in building peace and an end to impunity of perpetrators of violence. The Women, Peace and Security campaign package included post cards printed in French and English addressed to Prime Minister Martin, and information sheets on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (see below). For more information about this campaign, contact Suzanne Taylor, Coordinator, Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group, at Tel: 613-241-3446, Fax: 613-241-4846, or Email: suzanne@peacebuild.ca.

• Panel: Canadian Perspectives on UNSC Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group (CPCC) Panel during the Gender and Human Security Conference, organized by the Centre for Developing Areas Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 5-7 February 2004
This panel, organized by the Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group, featured: Chantale Walker, Policy Advisor on International Women's Equality in the Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs and International Women's Equality Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs speaking on “What is the Policy Agenda for Realizing Canada’s Commitment to Resolution 1325?”; Sheri Gibbings, MA candidate in social anthropology at York University, Toronto speaking on “United Nations Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Opportunities and Challenges”; and Isabelle Solon-Helal, Programme Officer on Women’s Rights for Rights and Democracy (Montreal) speaking on “Implementing Resolution 1325, an NGO Perspective: Lessons Learned and Realities from the Field.”

• UPDATED: CANADIAN COMMITTEE ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY (CCWPS)
Co-Chaired by Canadian Senator Mobina Jaffer and Honourable Lois Wilson, former Canadian Senator, Ongoing
Jodie McGrath, Coordinator, Tel: (613) 996-4298, Fax: (613) 992-0673, or Email: mcgraj@sen.parl.gc.ca
The Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security is composed of Parliamentarians, government officials and representatives from civil society (including the Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group (CPCC), CANADEM, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, CARE Canada, Philippine Development Assistance Program, Rights and Democracy, Sisterhood is Global Institute, and South Asia Partnership - Canada) and established to implement the commitments made in Resolution 1325 as well as the G8 Foreign Minister's Initiative.

• Website Launch for The Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security
May 2005
The Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security now has a website: http://www.ccwps-ccfps.org/. The website features information about Canada and implementation of SCR 1325, at the national and international level, information about how to get involved with the CCWPS, and past initiatives and publications prepared by the CCWPS.

• Establishing 1325 Networks Across Canada
Ongoing
The Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security has begun holding a series of roundtables in cities across Canada to explore establishing networks to work on Resolution 1325 and bring it into communities. Roundtables have been held in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. Surveys are also being carried out in Edmonton and Saskatoon. At the Toronto roundtable (27 June 2004), for example, participants discussed developing an educational curriculum on Resolution 1325.

For more information, contact Jodie McGrath, Coordinator of the Canadian Committee at Tel: (613) 996-4298, Fax: (613) 992-0673, or Email: mcgraj@sen.parl.gc.ca.

• WORKSHOP - CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES ON SECURITY, CONFLICT AND GENDER: ADVANCING RESEARCH, ADVOCACY AND POLICY
Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group (CPCC), in collaboration with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canadian Consortium on Human Security (CCHS, York University Centre for International and Security Studies in Toronto, Canada, 25-26 August 2003
This workshop brought together Canadian researchers - academic, activist and government - working within the area of Resolution 1325 to assess the current state of art of this work, and identify research/advocacy resources, as well as gaps and strategies for moving Canadian foreign policies in the area of Resolution 1325 forward.

• “WOMEN – ESSENTIAL TO PEACE”: RESOLUTION PROPOSED BY THE CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW), August 2003
The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) adopted a resolution on UNSC Resolution 1325 in August 2003. The CFUW has modified this resolution for submission to the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) Triennial Conference in August 2004 in Perth, Australia. The Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW) has also adopted a resolution on UNSC Resolution 1325 that they have submitted to the IFUW. The CFUW and AFUW will merge the two resolutions together into one resolution for the IFUW Triennial Conference. For the full resolution, including the ‘Background’ provided for the resolution, visit: http://www.cfuw.org/english/resolutions.html (see “Resolutions Information Book 2003-2004,” page 19 of the PDF document).

In addition to their resolution on UNSC Resolution 1325, the CFUW also has a sub-committee on women, peace and security that is focused this year on UNSC Resolution 1325. For more information about the work of the CFUW’s sub-committee, contact cfuw1@rogers.com.

• A CANADIAN DISCUSSION ON RESOLUTION 1325
The Linden School, 31 March 2003, Toronto, Canada
In celebration of its 10th Anniversary, The Linden School, a feminist school in Toronto (grades 1-12), organized an event entitled “Coalition For Peace: Women Take Action-Including Women’s Voices at Peace-Tables Worldwide.” In addition to a keynote statement by journalist and activist Sally Armstrong, and a panel discussion, a petition was circulated addressed to Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bill Graham, urging his leadership in implementing Resolution 1325 by incorporating it into Canada’s national legislation.

Among the panelists were three Linden high school students, Katherine Chuba (grade 10), Ruthie Cowper Szamosi (grade 11), and Emma Warnken Johnson (grade 11). Their presentation included a series of questions addressing Resolution 1325. For a sample of these questions, CLICK HERE.

United States

• NETWORK: BOSTON CONSORTIUM ON GENDER, SECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The Boston Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights is a group of five leading academic centers and programs in Boston dedicated to research and study on issues regarding gender and security, human rights, conflict resolution and prevention. Information coming soon.

• 1325 THREE YEARS ON: GENDER, SECURITY, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
Simmons School of Management, Boston, 20 January 2004,
Information coming soon.

• WORKSHOP ON RESOLUTION 1325 AT THE US NATIONAL CONGRESS OF WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM
WILPF US Section, 26-30 June 2002, Vermont, USA
At the Triennial Congress of WILPF-US at Goddard College, VT Sara Poehlman-Doumbouya (WILPF-UN Office) and Gillian Gilhool (WILPF-US Legislative Organizer) held an interactive workshop on Security Council Resolution 1325. Participants recognized the unique opportunity and tool that Resolution 1325 offers to promote women and peace from local to international levels. They examined the role of WILPF, whose memberships and staff have been working for peace and justice for 87 years, and other NGOs in the passing of the Resolution. Participants mapped out strategies and actions to effectively implement 1325 in their own activities and ways to harmonize US national policy with the Resolution.

• NEWS: RESOLUTION 1325 – USE IT OR LOSE IT
Ms. Magazine Commentary by Michele Landsberg, Summer 2003 Issue

• UNSC RESOLUTION 1325: WOMEN & CONFLICT: FROM A SOUTH ASIA PERSPECTIVE
South Asian Network for Gender Activists and Trainers, January 2008
South Asian Network for Gender Activists and Trainers prepared this basic overview of UNSC Resolution 1325 and South Asia with the aim to target grassroot workers.

• REGIONAL CONSULTATION: SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVES ON RESOLUTION 1325
Gender and Peacebuilding Program, International Alert, June 2003
The South Asia consultation on Women, Peace and Security was facilitated by International Alert as part of the Gender Peace Audit Project of its Gender and Peacebuilding Program. The purpose of the South Asia consultation was to share women’s concrete experiences and analyses of conflict and peacebuilding issues, as they relate to the South Asia region, and to discuss them within the framework of Resolution 1325. The consultation focused on three key themes: border conflicts; ethnic and religious conflicts; and small-arms proliferation. The report includes: the country-specific, regional, and inter-regional issues that were highlighted by the women during the consultation; the South Asian women’s perspectives on existing instruments developed to promote and advance women’s rights, such as CEDAW and Resolution 1325; and examples of strategy-sharing that took place among the women.

Burma-Myanmar

• TRANSLATING RESOLUTION 1325 INTO LOCAL LANGUAGES OF BURMA
Women's League of Burma
Since late 2003, the Women’s League of Burma (WLB), an umbrella women's organization comprising 11 women's organizations from Burma, has helped translate 1325 into local languages – to-date, Burmese, Karen, Karenni, Kachin, PaO, Lahu, and Shan. Translations into other local languages are currently being completed. To view 1325 in the local languages of Burma, CLICK HERE.

• THAILAND-BURMA: Training on 1325, Masters Program in Women’s Studies
Foundation for Women, Law, and Rural Development (FORWARD)/Women’s Studies Center, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University (Thailand), Ongoing
The 1325 Training, for Thai and Lao students, consists of:

1. Regular special sessions: Students interact with women's NGOs working on issues of armed conflict and violence against women, and displaced women from the neighboring war-torn country (Burma). The students are required to submit reports and term papers on topics addressed by the women, analyzing, theorizing and recommending actions to be taken;

2. Field visits: Students are provided with grants to visit "refugee camps" where women from the troubled areas of Burma reside; and

3. Participation in public campaigns: Students are asked to write statements, join public rallies on violence against women in the situation of armed conflicts.

• Sensitizing Male Democracy Activists ON 1325 Via the Media
Women's League of Burma, 2004
WLB issued a statement on current political developments in Burma, which included a call to all parties involved in the Burmese peace-making process "to follow UN Security Council Resolution 1325". The statement was sent to Burmese media, encouraging them (mostly male) to interview the male activists and leaders, focusing on 1325. [www.womenofburma.org]

Nepal

• COMMUNITY WOMEN PEACE VOLUNTEERS
Institute of Human Rights Communication Nepal (IHRICON), 2003
The Institute of Human Rights Communication Nepal (IHRICON) has established Community Women Peace Volunteers in 5 districts of Nepal among the 75 districts. In these groups there are 5 District Peace Volunteers (DPVs), 25 Community Peace Volunteers (CPVs) and 25 Community Peace Groups (CPGs) where 25-50 women are in one group. IHRICON has provided training to these groups on women's rights, human rights, Resolution 1325 and the impact of small arms. They are conducting an interactive program every month and publishing a newspaper on their activities and related women's issues in the village. IHRICON was the first NGO to introduce Resolution 1325 in Nepal with the support of International Alert, London. For more information, visit: http://www.ihricon@mos.com.np/.

Sri Lanka

• TAKING 1325 TO THE VILLAGE
Association of War Affected Women, Ongoing
AWAW is holding one-day workshops in all 25 districts of the country for women leaders of various organizations/clubs, junior administrative officers, women police and army officers, and school principals. The workshop includes a briefing on 1325 – history and content –and the UN. Participants are asked to brainstorm ideas for implementing 1325 within the context of the Sri Lanka peace process and the obstacles for implementing 1325. AWAW will be expanding the workshop participants to include women and men parliamentarians, secretaries of Ministries, women officers of diplomatic missions in Sri Lanka, and women combatants from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

As Resolution 1325 has recently been translated into Sinhala and Tamil by the Social Scientists' Association as part of one of the Shakti Gender Equity Project Sub Projects (see 1325 Translation Index), the project will be able to use the translated versions of Resolution 1325 in their workshops.

• Film Using 1325: “Raise As Fire: Women in the Sri Lankan Conflict”
International Center for Ethnic Studies
ICES collaborated with women's organizations in eastern conflict zone to produce a film, documenting the impact of the conflict on women, in order to advocate for women's participation in peace process. Interspersed throughout the film is discussion of relevant sections of 1325 and ideas for how to use them in advocacy efforts. The target audience included government negotiators in the Sri Lanka peace process. Since its release, many organizations have used the video to demonstrate the impact of the conflict on women.

Australia

• WILPF AUSTRALIA ACTION ON RESOLUTION 1325
2002-present
In 2002, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Australian Capital Territory (ACT) branch in Canberra began working on Resolution 1325. Over the past two years they have made presentations and conducted workshops at the local level and also at national and international conferences, representing the WILPF Australia Section. In addition, they have received a grant to develop educational /informational packages on Resolution 1325.

In addition to the work of the WILPF ACT branch, the WILPF Australia Section as a whole adopted Resolution 1325 as its top priority for education and action at its Triennial Conference in Brisbane in May 2003. In addition, WILPF branches in Brisbane and Adelaide have also held workshops on Resolution 1325.

WILPF Australia national office, call (+61 7) 3800 3749 or email mdziesak@bigpond.com.

• WILPF Australia website on 1325: www.1325australia.org.au
WILPF Australia launched a website on 1325 in 2004, intended as an action site for Australian women working to implement Resolution 1325 in Australia and the Pacific region. The site contains: background information about UNSCR 1325; material for students and youth, community groups and government departments; and useful links to other sites and resources. The website is a work-in-progress and is being developed with funding assistance from the Office of the Status of Women (OSW) and support from the WomenSpeak Network, a network of national women’s organisations of which WILPF is a member.
To contact WILPF Australia concerning the website, email: info@1325australia.org.au.

• Report on WILPF Australia’s Activities Related to Security Council Resolution 1325
June 2003
This report reviews the work of the WILPF Australian Capital Territory (ACT) branch since it began working on Resolution 1325 in 2001.

• AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN RESOLUTION ON 1325
Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW), date?
PeaceWomen has received information that the Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW) has adopted a resolution in support of Resolution 1325. The AFUW and the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW), who also adopted a resolution in support of Resolution 1325, merged their resolutions to submit a single resolution to the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) Triennial Conference in August 2004 in Perth, Australia (see the IFUW resolution).

To-date, PeaceWomen does not have a copy of the AFUW resolution. If anyone has a copy, could you please send a copy to Sarah Shteir at: sarah@peacewomen.org.

• WILPF AUSTRALIA WORKSHOP ON 1325
WILPF Australia, 13 June 2002
At a national Women's Constitutional Convention on June 13, 2002 in Canberra, WILPF sponsored a workshop on Resolution 1325. A set of recommendations were developed during the workshop.

Fiji

• femLINKpacific COMMUNITY MEDIA INITIATIVES ACTIVITIES ON RESOLUTION 1325
Fiji Islands
For more information about the work of the femLINK Pacific Community Media Initiatives, contact the Coordinator, P.O. Box 2439, Government Buildings, Suva, Fiji Islands, Ph# 679 3316290, Mobile: 9244871, Fax (c/- Caines Jannif Limited Head Office) 679 3301925

• fem'TALK E-News: Monthly E-news bulletin
Ongoing
This monthly e-news bulletin regularly features information about Pacific initiatives related to Resolution 1325. Previous issues can be found at:
http://www.peacewomen.org/news/Fiji/news.html

• fem’TALK 89.2FM: A Mobile Women’s Community Radio Project
Ongoing
femLINKpacific’s Radio Project has focused on 1325 during their ‘women and peace hour,’ which is based on the concept of “taking the radio to the women – ‘women speaking to women for peace.’” The aim of the Project is to create a space for women in the Pacific region to share their stories of peace, and provide opportunities for women from community groups to facilitate the discussions on peace issues.

• fem’TALK 1325 - A Women and Peace Community Magazine Project
Ongoing
FemLINKpacific produces “fem’TALK 1325: a women and peace community magazine project”, supported by UNIFEM Pacific. This magazine is intended to enhance the advocacy and action towards the full implementation of 1325 in the Pacific region. It also provides a regular and coordinated approach to the developments and stories surrounding UNIFEM Pacific’s regional Women, Peace and Security project. While the primary audience is women and peace advocates, in order to support and encourage their work, it is also sent to the military’s media cell, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Women, as well as mainstream media.

“[fem’TALK 1325 women and peace community magazine project] is founded on “1325”; in order for women to actively be in decision-making positions, especially to ensure conflict prevention, we need to celebrate our capacity to rise to these levels …questions, interviews and stories are centered around “1325” and women and decision-making as much as possible.”

• STATEMENT: WOMEN PEACEBUILDERS COMMEMORATE RESOLUTION 1325 IN FIJI
Statement by Sharon Bhagwan on behalf of the Women from the National Council of Women Fiji (NCWF), 31 October 2002
Women from the National Council of Women Fiji (NCWF) joined St. Anne’s Primary School for their Peace Day celebrations and took the opportunity to highlight the importance of Resolution 1325 and women peacebuilders around the world and in Fiji in particular.

• UNSC 1325 WOMEN PEACE AND SECURITY FUTURE PERSPECTIVES ARAB REGIONAL WORKSHOP
29-30 May 2004, Egypt
The Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement was founded on the principle that women can and should be more visibly represented in all aspects of Peacebuilding because their participation has been proven to enhance the outcome. With this in mind, the movement organized the workshop on ‘The Road to UNSC 1325: Women. Peace and Security, Future Perspectives’ on the 29th and 30th may, 2004 in Mirage City, Cairo. This first internationally collaborative symposium organized on UNSC 1325 was initiated from within the Arab world, participants were selected with a ratio of 30:70 International to Arab participants respectively, the facilitators and all, except three speakers were drawn from the region. The participants were drawn from 22 Arab countries, two from Africa and two from United Kingdom. For further information, please contact Ancil Adrian-Paul, at: aadrian-paul@international-alert.org. [Featured in ENGENDERING PEACE, International Alert’s Gender and Peacebuilding Programme Newsletter, Spring 2004].

Israel-Occupied Palestinian Territories

• THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S COMMISSION (IWC)
Palestinian and Israeli women's organizations, including Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counselling in Jerusalem and Bat Shalom, are collaborating on an initiative, called the International Women's Commission (IWC). Women have initiated this political body to address the historical absence of women from the formal negotiations and to ensure women's active participation in the Israeli-Palestinian peace processes. The Commission is being developed with the objective of being recognized by the Quartet (UN, EU, US and Russia), under the mandate of UNSC Resolution 1325. Information coming soon.

• ISHA L'ISHA'S Program for the Implementation of Resolution 1325
Contact: ishahfc@netvision.net.il
Isha l’Isha’s program, works towards the inclusion of women of different backgrounds and sectors of society in formal and informal negotiations and discussions on the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The program’s foci include: distributing the Hebrew translation of 1325; distributing and disseminating information on the resolution to national, regional and NGO bodies involved in decision-making process; campaigning to raise public awareness through public relations work, networking and coalition work, advertisement, and media coverage; and monitoring and documenting the impact of the conflict on women and girls.

• Using 1325 to Advocate for Parliamentary Legislation
Ongoing
Isha l'Isha has contributed documents and information to the Israeli Parliament's research center, which is working to create recommendations for legal action/options regarding the implementation of 1325 in Israel.

• Conference Report - Where Are All the Women? UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Gender Perspectives of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict [English, Arabic, and Hebrew]
Sarai Aharoni and Rula Deeb (Eds.), Isha l'Isha and Kayan, April 2003
This report is a collection of essays based on lectures from the first national conference addressing Resolution 1325 in Israel, "UNSC Resolution 1325 and its Relevance to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," organized by Isha l'Isha- Haifa Feminist Center and Kayan- Feminist Organization. Conference speakers included academic scholars, attorneys, activists for women's rights, human rights, and peace from both Israel and Palestinian Authority. Participants included local women from the area, Bedouin women from the south, and religious Jewish women from the area, women from Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Beer-Sheva. The panel featured a series of women civil society speakers, and the screening of a documentary film about Israeli and Palestinian mothers who have lost their children during the Intifada. Arabic and Hebrew translations of Resolution 1325 were presented to make it more accessible to local authorities.

• ITACH-MAAKI, WOMEN LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
Contact: mail@itach.org.il
Itach-Maaki (meaning 'with you' in Hebrew and Arabic) is an organization which offers legal aid and advocacy to marginalized women, and promotes U.N. Resolution 1325 by advocating for the inclusion of diverse women in all levels of decision-making. To this end, Itach-Maaki are working to enforce an amendment recently passed by the Israeli parliament, in collaboration with Isha L'Isha, which incorporates 1325 into national law and stipulates that any public committee or policy-shaping team on any matter must include appropriate representation of women from diverse population groups. To enforce the law and give greater expression to the voices of diverse women in Israeli society, Itach-Maaki has undertaken a number of actions including:

• General Inquiry – Itach-Maaki sent letters to the Ministries of Security and of Foreign Affairs requesting information (which is public under the law for freedom of information) on whether there are women on operating committees, and if so who are the women and how many are there.
• Targeting Specific Committees – Itach-Maaki has written letters to advocate for the inclusion of women in certain committees that are deemed to be of unique importance to the expression of women's voices in society.
• Non-Legal Work – Itach-Maaki met with the Director of the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women, who is responsible for the enforcement of the amendment, and worked on ways to improve reporting to her by government bodies. In addition, Itach-Maaki recruited support from two women parliament members (one current and one former) for assistance in monitoring government-appointed committees.
• Upcoming Peace Summit – Thanks to the efforts of Itach-Maaki and International Women's Commission, a woman, Tzipi Livni, was added to the negotiating committee to represent Israel in Annapolis. To achieve this, Itach-Maaki wrote letters to the Foreign Ministry, the Prime Minister's office, and all members of the Israeli parliament and met with two key women political leaders. Itach-Maaki is also trying to discern the situation regarding subdivisions and subcommittees to further affect change in this summit.
• Promoting Legislation – Itach-Maaki is preparing for future legal or legislative advocacy toward enforcement of the amendment through research. Itach-Maaki is assessing whether a petition to the Israeli Supreme Court is the right tool to enforce the amendment, and staff attorney Maya Mark is composing possible revisions of the amendment that would add a sanction detailing what must be done to enforce the law.

Women Legal Leaders Program
In this collaboration with the Law Faculty of Haifa University, new and veteran leaders from disadvantaged communities in the Haifa area join with women law students to learn about social change and the law, survey legal needs in the women’s communities, and jointly develop and implement practical projects to answer those needs. Itach-Maaki aims to empower individual women leaders and demonstrate the potential for a large-scale implementation of 1325 and the recent amendment. For details about this program, contact Dana Myrtenbaum at Dana@itach.org.il.

Publication
As part of an initiative of Isha L'Isha, Haifa staff attorney Dana Myrtenbaum wrote the first shadow report of Israeli civil society on implementation of Section E of the Beijing Platform for Action, entitled Women, Armed Conflict, and Occupation – An Israeli Perspective.

To read the report CLICK HERE

• Women, Peace and Security: A Feminist Analysis of Security Council Resolution 1325
Merav Datan, LLM Research Paper, Law Faculty, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, 2004
The focus of this feminist analysis is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

• NEWS: ARE THE WRONG PEOPLE TRYING TO SOLVE THE MIDDLE EAST CRISIS?
The Guardian (UK), 15 September 2003
An article about the International Women’s Commission (IWC) and Resolution 1325.

• UPDATED: Global Action to Prevent War Prioritizes 1325
Global Action to Prevent War (GAPW) Coalition, 2005
At its recent International Steering Committee Meeting, the Global Action to Prevent War (GAPW) Coalition with members in 53 countries decided to make implementing Security Council resolution 1325 one its top priorities. The GAPW is a programme which grounds the goal of conflict prevention in specific integrated phases of conflict prevention, peacekeeping and disarmament over a three to four-decade period, and has included resolution 1325 as a crucial element of preventing conflict since it was adopted in 2000. For more information about GAPW, visit: http://www.globalactionpw.org.

Picking up on the language in the first operational paragraph of the resolution, GAPW intends to work specifically on the Security Council's acknowledgment that women have a role to play in conflict prevention. GAPW will generate a report on what women are doing around the world to prevent war, genocide and internal armed conflict for the fifth anniversary of the resolution, October 2005. For more information and to become involved in the conflict prevention component of implementing 1325 contact Coordinator Jennifer Nordstrom at coordinator@globalactionpw.org or call (1) 212-818-1861.

•Women – Essential to Peace: Resolution on 1325 Adopted by the International Federation of University Women
International Federation of University Women (IFUW), 28th Triennial Conference, Perth, Australia, August 2004
Both the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) and the Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW), who have independently adopted their own resolutions on 1325, submitted this resolution for adoption at the IFUW Conference.

• USING 1325 TO AdvocatE for US Congressional Legislation
Women Waging Peace (USA), June 2004
US House of Representatives Resolution 465: Commending the efforts of women in the Republic of Colombia to promote peace (24 June 2004)
Waging facilitated meetings between a delegation of Colombian women peace builders and congressional members and staffers from the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. Via these meetings, a commitment was made to introduce and support a congressional resolution supporting women’s efforts in Colombia. This resolution, in which 1325 is specifically referenced, has been referred to the House Committee on International Relations for further action.

• TRAINING ON RESOLUTION 1325 AT THE 48TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
Organized by the International Women’s Tribune Center, Femmes Africa Solidarite, International Alert and Isis-WICCE, 11 March 2004
IWTC, FAS, IA and Isis-WICCE organized a 4-hour training on Resolution 1325 for African women participating at CSW, though others were also welcome and participated. The African women came from, among other countries, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Uganda. The training included: an overview of the historical background to Resolution 1325, an explanation of the legal basis and meaning of the resolution, case studies from Burundi and DRC; and a discussion of the importance of documentation of women’s experiences of armed conflict, as part of the larger discussion of women’s advocacy strategies. For more information, contact: iwtc@iwtc.org.

• RESOLUTION 1325: MOVING FORWARD – A BRAINSTORM SESSION
Organized by the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (New York) and the NGO Working Group on Peace (Geneva), A side event at the 48th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women, 10 March 2004
The NGO Working Group on Peace (Geneva) and the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (New York) hosted a brainstorming session on 10 March 2004 entitled UN Security Council Resolution 1325: Moving Forward. Over 60 people attended the session, including representatives of UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who participated in the 48th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), held at UN Headquarters in New York. The brainstorming session brought together a range of individuals and constituencies to generate targeted actions/strategies to advance Resolution 1325. After developing a sizeable list of recommendations, participants identified seven priority actions they will take during 2004-2005. For the seven priority actions, CLICK HERE. For the full list of recommendations, CLICK HERE.

• Feminist peacemaking: In Resolution 1325, the United Nations requires the inclusion of women in all peace planning and negotiation
Carol Cohn, The Women’s Review of Books Special Issue on Women, War, and Peace, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College, Editorial Advisor: Cynthia Enloe, February 2004

• TRAINING: "PUTTING PEACE INTO PRACTICE: IDEAS FOR ADVOCACY AND IMPLEMENTATION OF RESOLUTION 1325 ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY
NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, A side event at the 46th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), March 2002
In March 2002, the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security held a training on Resolution 1325 at the CSW. Approximately 100 women attended this training. At the end of the session everyone wrote down on a post card one thing they would do to work towards the implementation of SC Resolution 1325. Two months later WILPF mailed the post-cards back to the women.

• CANADIAN COMMITTEE ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY
Ongoing
The Canadian Committee on Women, Peace and Security, co-chaired by Senator Mobina Jaffer and the Honourable Lois Wilson, was established to implement the commitments made in Resolution 1325 as well as the G8 Foreign Minister's Initiative. The Canadian Committee is composed of Parliamentarians, government officials and representatives from civil society, including the Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group (CPCC). The Committee consists of 3 sub-committees: (1) Capacity Building; (2) Advocacy; and (3) Training.

Work of the Sub-Committees
-The Capacity Building sub-committee has generated a discussion paper on barriers to the participation of women in Peace Support Operations.
-The Advocacy sub-committee completed a series of cross-Canada roundtable consultations with Afghan-Canadian women on women, peace and post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan. The report of the roundtables was presented to Foreign Affairs Minister Graham on November 1, 2002, in Toronto and is available at http://www.humansecuritybulletin.info/.
-The Training sub-committee piloted a Canadian version of the Canada-UK developed online gender and peacekeeping course for a mixed military, NGO and government audience (March 2002).

• WOMEN'S COALITION 1325, AZERBAIJAN
Launched September 2002
On 6 September 2002, 24 women from Parliament, state agencies, the NGO community, political parties and mass media, founded a women’s coalition in support of Resolution 1325 called “Coalition 1325.” This women’s coalition is an initiative of UNIFEM’s regional project “Women for Conflict Prevention and Peace Building in the Southern Caucasus.” According to a UNIFEM press release dated October 10th: “The newly established entity will help raise the awareness of the Azerbaijani society on the content of UNSC Resolution 1325. It will advocate for increasing the role of Azerbaijani women in decision-making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution at the national, regional and international levels. “Coalition 1325” aims to involve women refugees and internally displaced persons in peacebuilding process, to promote the culture of peace and establish cooperation with women’s coalitions working on similar issues abroad.” For more information about the Women's Coalition 1325, contact Gulshan Pashayeva, National Project Coordinator, UNIFEM - Azerbaijan at: gulshan.pashayeva@undp.org.

• 'WOMEN AND MEN WORKING IN EQUAL PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE OF IRAQ': AN ADVOCACY AND ACTION PLAN
April, 2003, London, England
Iraqi women’s organizations from the Iraqi diaspora, UNIFEM UK, and a number of UK women’s organizations met to discuss how to ensure women’s participation in the post-conflict reconstruction process in Iraq. One outcome of the meeting was an advocacy and action plan, entitled 'Women and Men Working in Equal Partnership for the Future of Iraq,’ which not only included reference to Resolution 1325, but whose agreed points were presented “in line with” Resolution 1325. This plan was circulated electronically by K.U.L.U.- WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT (Denmark). To contact them, email kulu@kulu.dk or visit their website at http://www.kulu.dk.

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