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Civil Society Activities/Women Organizing for Peace


Civil Society Activities/Women Organizing for Peace is a sub-theme of Theme: Peace Processes, and forms part of PeaceWomen’s framework to organize our women, peace and security resources for ease of use and understanding. It is important to note that themes and sub-themes are interlinked and mutually reinforcing.

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  • August 28, 2010 (Eurasia Review)
    ISRAEL: Why Is Israel Terrified Of A Ship Full Of Women? The bloody wake left by the Mavi Marmara after the May 31 Israeli commando raid has not deterred 50 female activists from trying to break the four-year-old siege of Gaza. To hear Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak speak of their planned relief effort, one would think the very existence of Israel was at stake.
  • August 22, 2010 (Guardian UK)
    ISRAEL: Israeli Army's Female Recruits Denounce Treatment of Palestinians Facebook images of an Israeli servicewoman posing with blindfolded Palestinians have caused a storm. Now two former female conscripts have spoken out about their own experience.
  • August 5, 2010 (AFP)
    KASHMIR: Female Protesters Pile on Pressure in Indian Kashmir "We are out on the streets with a message -- kill us before you kill our young boys and girls," says Rehana Ashraf, a female teacher in Indian Kashmir. It is a stance which makes the security forces deeply anxious as they battle to suppress a surge of violent protests against India's rule of the Muslim-majority region.
  • August 3, 2010 (News Blaze)
    INDIA: India's Women Show Courage Amidst Conflict The picturesque northeastern state of Manipur known for living with violence and unrest was once again in the news these last few months. The proposed visit of the Naga nationalist leader Thuingaleng Muivah to his home in the Ukhrul district of Manipur after four decades in early May this year was strongly opposed by the state government. It came in the wake of the Indo-Naga peace process between the Naga leaders of the NSCN (IM) and the government of India.
  • July 23, 2010 (The Guardian)
    AFGHANISTAN: Clinton tells Afghan Women They Will Not Be Forgotten Amid Peace Efforts Hillary Clinton today promised that any peace deal with the ultra-conservative Taliban movement would not come at the cost of the rights of Afghan women.The US secretary of state told a conference of the world's foreign ministers that women in the country "will not be sacrificed" and announced a number of initiatives to improve their situation.

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  • Civil Society Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender, United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW), 2008 | Download PDF
  • Building Community-Based Partnerships for Local Action on Women's Safety, January 2007 | Download PDF
  • Sixty Years, Sixty Voices , Patricia Smith Melton , 2007 | Download PDF
  • Peace in Sudan: Women Making the Difference Recommendations, October 15, 2004 | Download PDF
  • Women's Participation in Peace Negotiations: Discourse in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Doris Mpoumou, 2004 | Download PDF

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