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Peace Processes
Civil Society Activities/Women Organizing for Peace
Civil Society Activities/Women Organizing for Peace is a sub-theme of Peace Processes and provides information on the activities carried out by Civil Society and Women's Groups to facilitate and sustain peace. This sub theme also provides information relevant to the work carried out by Civil Society and Women's Groups to ensure women's meaningful participation in conflict resolution and Peace Processes.
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News
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April 30, 2012 (Huffington Post)
PAKISTAN: Pakistani Women Unite to Battle Religious Extremism Sameena Imtiaz, a soft-spoken, educated Pakistani social worker, operates in the midst of U.S. drone strikes and Taliban suicide bombings. She regularly travels to remote parts of her country in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, infamously known for the safe Al-Qadea and Taliban sanctuaries, to promote peace education among the radicalized young seminary students. -
April 18, 2012 (The Guatemala Times )
GUATEMALA: A Brutal Manifestation of Patriarchy The involvement of women in anti-war actions and in support of peace activism worldwide is a critical part of modern history, yet the vulnerability of women in conflict situations to violence of all forms is perhaps the most brutal manifestation of patriarchy in modern times. We must probe the areas of ambivalence in women's activism for peace and human rights, argues Sunila Abeysekera. Militarism, Violence and Conflict is one of the themes of the AWID Forum 2012 ↑ which opens tomorrow in Istanbul with 2000 women from around the world meeting to discuss processes of ‘Transforming Economic Power to advance women's rights and justice'. -
April 17, 2012 (Open Democracy)
INTERNATIONAL: Peace Movements: Violence Reduction as Common Sense If one thing holds the overall movement of peace movements together it is the goal of violence reduction. There's a shared conviction that violence is a choice, that there exists, much more often than commonly supposed, a more violent and a less violent course of action. Can we justifiably speak of a global movement against war? -
April 8, 2012 (ITN Source)
MALI: Women in the Capital Bamako Call for Peace and National Unity Malian women gathered in Bamako at a rally on Saturday (April 7) after leaders of Mali's coup and neighbouring countries agreed a plan under which the two-week-old junta will hand over power in return for the end of trade and diplomatic sanctions. -
April 7, 2012 (Leadership)
NIGERIA: Sambo's Wife Tasks Women On Insecurity In the wake of ethno-religious crises in the country, wife of the Vice President, Hajiya Amina Sambo, has tasked women on the need to ensure peaceful and harmonious co-existence.
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Resources
- AWID: Militarism, Conflict and Violence, AWID, 19 April 2012
- Afghan Women Speak: Enhancing Security and Human Rights in Afghanistan, David Cortright and Sarah Smiles persinger, October 2010 | Download PDF
- Women as Agents of Grassroots Change: Illustrating Micro-Empowerment in Morocco , Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Winter 2011 | Download PDF
- The Recent Election Game Will Not Improve the Situation for Women, January 31, 2011
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Meets with Non-Governmental Organizations, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, January 17, 2011 | Download PDF
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Initiatives
- Marianne Schnall Marianne Schnall Writer/Interviewer GET UPDATES FROM Marianne Schnall Like 46 Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award , Online Dialogues & Blogs, , June 13, 2011
- Women from Around the World Condemn Attack on Peaceful Protesters in Iraq and Call for an End to Sexual Assault of Women Protesters , Appeals & Demonstrations, MADRE, June 10, 2011
- LETTER: Laureates to Ban Ki-moon: Safe passage for Gaza Flotilla, Appeals & Demonstrations, Nobel Women's Initiative, June 10, 2011
- LAUNCH: End Congo Rape Website, Online Dialogues & Blogs, , June 9, 2011
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Women Peacemakers and Peace Writers, Campaigns, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, June 1, 2011
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PeaceWomen Publications
- Statement on the Nigeria, WILPF Section , October 2011
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Organizations
- Mothers for Peace
- Movimiento por la Paz (MPDL)
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Network of East-West Women
(NEWW)
Coordinating projects on women's rights advocacy, based in Russia. - Peace Brigades International (PBI)
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Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa
(SIHA)
SIHA is advocating for social change and gender equality for men and women in the Horn of Africa and working specifically on: gender equality, eliminating violence against women and girls, promoting human rights, peace building and conflict transformation, enhancing women's leadership as well as political participation and production and dissemination of knowledge.
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