WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY RESOURCES: ACHEH
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Civil Society and NGO Reports, Papers and Statements

Indonesia: New military operations, old patterns of human rights abuses in Aceh
Amnesty International, USA, 6 October 2004
Women have been subjected to human rights violations, including unlawful killings, arbitrary detention and torture during the military emergency. However, physical violence is only one aspect of the suffering experienced by women in NAD. The years of conflict have also brought economic hardship and isolation. Thousands of women have been widowed over the years as a result of unlawful killings and "disappearances" of their husbands. Women are also left as sole providers because their husbands and other male relatives have fled.

Annual Report on Indonesia
Amnesty International, 2004

NGO Report on the Conference: "Contributing towards sustainable peace in Aceh"
Compiled by the Aotearoa Peace Movement, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 13-14 December 2003

NGO Joint Memorandam on the war in Aceh
23 May 2003
A collective NGO statement against the Indonesian government's declaration of martial law in Aceh and its ongoing military operation against the Free Aceh Movement (GAM).

Searching for the New Indonesia
By Nani Zulminarni of Indonesia's Centre for Women's Resources in Development
Published in Social Watch, December 2001

Indonesia: The War in Aceh
Human Rights Watch Report, Vol. 13, No. 4 (C), August 2001

Women's Response to Militaristic Security: The Case of Aceh Women
Melani Budianta, Speech, Okinawa International Forum on People's Security, Okinawa, Japan, 29 June-1 July 2000

INFOHD report to56th Session United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland, 20 March - 28 April 2000
The NGO Delegation from Indonesia included Indonesia's Forum for Human Dignity, the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association, the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute Foundation, SP, Flower Aceh, the Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence

UN Documents

Secretary General's Statement on the Situation in Aceh
29 May 2003

Violence Against Women: Indonesia/West Timor
Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, submitted in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2000/45, Report, Violence against women perpetrated and/or condoned by the State during times of armed conflict (1997-2000), E/CN.4/2001/73, 23 January 2001

Government Statements and Reports

Indonesia's Combined Second and Third Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
Indonesian government, CEDAW/C/IDN/2-3, 12 February 1997
Examined at the 18th session, 1998

Books, Journals and Articles

How are Women's Rights Being Defended in Aceh, Indonesia?
Janice Duddy, Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) and Suraiya Kamaruzzama, Interview, 9 July 2004

Women in Aceh and Women's NGOs
Nunuk P. Murniati and Komnas Perempuan, Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development, Forum News, Volume 16 No. 2, Aug-Sep 2003

Defending Women's Rights in Aceh
Carmel Budiardjo, Tapol, the Indonesia Human Rights Campaign, Bulletin Online 157, Interview, April 2000
An interview with Suraiya Kamaruzzaman, the founder of Flower Aceh, discussing women's roles in exposing the atrocities committed in Aceh, as well as the particular ways in which women have been victimized by the violence.

A Widow's Notes
As told to Syarifah Mariati, Inside Indonesia, No. 62, April-June 2000
A woman's oral testimony of the violence committed in Aceh.

Women and the War in Aceh: These women want to silence all the guns, whether Indonesian or Acehnese
Suraiya Kamaruzzaman, Inside Indonesia, No. 64, Oct - Dec 2000

Aceh -  The `Special Territory' in North Sumatra: A Self-Fulfilling Promise?
Karim D. Crow, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2000

The Wake up Call for Acehnese Women
Suraiya IT, Conference Presentation at New York University, "Years of Living Dangerously," 12 December 1998
This paper details the effect of the violent conflict on women in Aceh, with some recommendations for women as leaders and peacebuilders to resolve the situation.

The Forgotten Cost of Counter-Insurgency in Aceh
Inside Indonesia, No. 49, Jan - Mar 1997
Kerry Brogan talks with two women whose husbands 'disappeared.'

Human Rights Violence, Social Conflict & The Solving Efforts in Aceh Province
Suraiya Kamaruzzaman