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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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  • February 1, 2012 (Care2)
    USA: U.S. Acts on Women, Peace and Security A new action plan opens far-reaching possibilities to improve the security of women and the world. With some caution, women's peace advocates plan to monitor its implementation.
  • January 26, 2012 (Inclusive Democracy)
    BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Are Bosnian and Herzegovinian Victims of Wartime Rape Finally Being Given Constructive Attention? Unlike perpetrators, victims of wartime rape and sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina do not receive much attention in the media, not only due to social ostracism but also lack of a coherent strategy and resources to address their needs.
  • January 25, 2012 (Airang)
    INTERNATIONAL: South Korean Envoy Named Head of UN Envoy for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women On the diplomatic front the Korean ambassador to the United Nations was named president of the forty-one-nation governing body for UN Women.
  • January 23, 2012 (Make Every Woman Count)
    INTERNATIONAL: Resolving Conflict - Riots, Confrontation and UN Security Council Resolution 1325 The UN remains, as it has ever been, male-dominated. No woman has ever headed the UN. Despite the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), in all top level positions, women tend to be discounted as leaders, for women figure in far fewer numbers in any but lower level and support roles. As High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson then Louise Arbor held the highest positions women had attained in the UN. Women have held the office of Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women since its inception in 2009. Meanwhile a woman heads the women's division – now titled UN Women. Despite these appointments, little has changed since 1973, when Shirley Hazzard wrote her searing critique of the UN, The Defeat of an Ideal, which she followed in 1990 with Countenance of Truth.
  • January 19, 2012 (The Morung Express)
    INTERNATIONAL: 'Women Should Be Involved in Resolving Conflicts' Jean Shinoda Bolen, a best-selling author and internationally-known lecturer, is a qualified psychiatrist and Jungian analyst. She is presently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California Medical Center. Her fan following includes the acclaimed novelist Alice Walker, who once wrote that “the healing power of Jean Shinoda Bolen's work and thought transform all who will allow encounter”, and feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who has observed that Bolen has shown people how “the cult of masculinity is endangering us all.” Pamela Philipose interviewed her in New York.

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United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security

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

 

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