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General Women, Peace and Security


In this section, PeaceWomen classifies information by Theme- General Women, Peace and Security- and by Subthemes: General; Security Council Resolution 1325; Security Council Resolution 1820; Security Council Resolution 1888; Security Council Resolution 1889; National Implementation (including NAPs); and UN Implementation

It should be noted that the themes and sub-themes are interlinked and mutually reinforcing. Please remember that PeaceWomen posts information that is focused on women, peace and security.

 

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  • May 16, 2012 (Associated Press)
    USA: Report Says Female Farmworkers Suffer Sex Abuse Female farmworkers across the United States are commonly sexually harassed and assaulted, in part because their immigration status makes them fearful of calling police, according to a report being released Wednesday by Human Rights Watch. The survey by the international rights group mirrors two previous reports on the risks facing women and girls that had focused on California, where most of the nation's farmworkers reside.
  • May 9, 2012 (Caribbean News Now)
    CARIBBEAN: OAS and Chile Cooperate to Combat Violence Against Women in the Eastern Caribbean The Organization of American States (OAS) and the government of Chile have signed a letter of intent to strengthen capacities in the area of violence against women in the countries of the Eastern Caribbean, among which are OAS member states Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
  • May 9, 2012 (Jakarta Globe)
    INDONESIA: Indonesia Islamists Stall Gender Equality Bill The fate of a gender equality bill pending in Indonesia's parliament and aligned with the United Nations convention on the elimination of all forms discrimination against women (CEDAW) has become uncertain after falling afoul of powerful Islamist groups. No fewer than six major Islamic organizations have formally objected to the equality bill on the ground that some of its articles go against Islamic values in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation where 80 percent of its 238 million people are followers of the faith.
  • May 3, 2012 (Sydney Morning Herald)
    INTERNATIONAL: Hatred of Women Exists in the West as Well as in the Arab World Misogyny has reduced women to headscarves and hymens. 'WOMEN have very little idea of how much men hate them,'' wrote Germaine Greer in The Female Eunuch. So outraged were men that wives reportedly took to concealing their copies by wrapping them in plain brown paper.
  • May 1, 2012 (New York Times)
    LATIN AMERICA: Latin America Opens Up to Equality Quietly and against the odds, women are stepping up the political ladder in Latin America, moving ahead of the United States when it comes to political empowerment and closely matching much of Western Europe.

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United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

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United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, Department of Economic Affairs

 

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