Vienna Women Without Borders Declaration
Women Without Borders, Women Included! Conference, 13-15 November 2003

"The first Women without Borders conference took place in Vienna, Austria on November 13-15, 2003. Attending the conference were women leaders and representatives of women´s organisations from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Kosovo, Senegal and South Africa under the title “Women Included!”.

Recalling the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on the participation of women in conflict resolution and participation in the political transition and recalling the UN Decade of Women commitments made in Mexico, Copenhagen, Nairobi, Beijing and New York to achieve equality, development and peace.

Therefore,

1. we wholeheartedly support the UN Security Council Resolution 1325.

2. we strongly urge the full implementation of all the provisions that were made in the above resolution.

3. we call upon the United Nations and all signatory governments to create mechanisms for the implementation of the resolution.

In particular we, the women meeting in Vienna, call for the urgent implementation of this resolution globally, to enable the women worldwide engulfed in conflict or undergoing political transition in one form or another, to be actively involved in finding a durable peace.

Having met in Vienna under the auspices of Women without Borders, believing that the real power balance lies in the inclusion of women, we hereby commit ourselves to establish a network of women to continue pursue the discussions we started on the involvement of women in political decision making processes and to ensure that the voices of women are heard more loudly. Women without Borders and women´s organisations throughout the world will undertake to mobilise, coordinate and monitor the efforts for the complete implementation of the Resolution 1325 globally."

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