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Themes
- General Women, Peace and Security
- Conflict Prevention
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- Peace Processes
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- Human Rights
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Human Rights
General
Respect, protection and promotion of human rights is an important part of the women, peace and security agenda. Women’s human rights - both civil-political and socio-economic - are particularly at risk in times of conflict and in post-conflict situations.
In addition other forms of discrimination are often suffered by women or are part of fueling conflict. As states seek to create sustainable peace it is essential that attention be paid to these various human rights issues –in terms of ending impunity for violations and in terms of establishing laws, policies, institutions and mechanisms to respect, protect and promote human rights.
General - Basics
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News
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May 13, 2013 (eNAC)
INDIA: India's Women Activists Seeing Red India's "Red Brigade" is a group of angry young women with a simple message for the country's sexual predators: change your ways or be ready to face the consequences. -
May 1, 2013 (The Sun Daily )
DRC: UN Envoy "Shocked" Over Eastern DR Congo Abuses The new UN special envoy for Africa's Great Lakes region, former Irish president Mary Robinson, expressed her "shock" Tuesday over human rights abuses in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. -
April 9, 2013 (New York Times)
ISRAEL: Compromise Is Proposed on Western Wall Praying Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, outlined new ideas on Tuesday for making the Western Wall a place where all Jews could pray comfortably, after tensions over rituals there peaked in recent months and caused discord between the Israeli authorities and Jewish leaders abroad. -
April 4, 2013 (Mail Online)
SYRIA/TUNISIA: Tunisian Girls 'Head to Syria to Offer Themselves to Islamic Fighters as Part of Sexual Jihad' At least 13 Tunisian girls reportedly travelled to rebel-held Northern Syria to offer themselves as sex workers to opposition fighters. -
April 4, 2013 (The Washington Post)
ISRAEL: Tensions Flare Over Women's Prayers at Sacred Western Wall The ultra-Orthodox rabbi in charge of the sacred Western Wall assured a government emissary on Thursday (April 4) that Jewish women will not be arrested if they try to recite the mourner's prayer at the holy site, despite a warning from Israeli police.
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Resources
- The Integration of Gender and Human Rights into the Post-2015 Development Framework, Center for Women's Global Leadership, March 2013 | Download PDF
- SRI LANKA: "We Will Teach You a Lesson" Sexual Violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan Security Forces, Human Rights Watch, 26 February 2013 | Download PDF
- Accessing Justice: Models, Strategies and Best Practices on Women's Empowerment, IDLO, February, 2013 | Download PDF
- Country File: Guinea Bissau Female Genital Cutting, Orchid Project, February 5, 2013 | Download PDF
- SYRIA: A Regional Crisis the IRC Commission on Syrian Refugees, International Rescue Committee, January 2013 | Download PDF
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Initiatives
- BLOG: A Western Sahara Story, Online Dialogues & Blogs, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), March 25, 2013
- STATEMENT: Kosovo: Amnesty International Condemns Threats to Woman Human Rights Defender , Statements, , 22 March 2013
- STATEMENT: Concerns of Women's Organizations over Negotiations on CSW 57 Outcome Document , Statements, , March 14, 2013
- BLOG: YWILPF Australia Blogs CSW 57, Online Dialogues & Blogs, Commission on the Status of Women, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), March 2013
- BLOG: The Muslim Brotherhood Has Shown its Contempt for Egypt's Women, Online Dialogues & Blogs, , 18 March 2013
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PeaceWomen Publications
- Monthly Action Points (MAP) on Women, Peace and Security, NGOWG, July 2010 (NGO), MAP , July 7, 2010
- Monthly Action Points (MAP) on Women, Peace and Security, NGOWG, June 2010 (NGO), MAP , June 2010
- Monthly Action Points (MAP) on Women, Peace and Security, NGOWG, May 2010 (NGO), MAP , May 1, 2010
- Monthly Action Points (MAP) on Women, Peace and Security, NGOWG, April 2010 (NGO), MAP , April 1, 2010
- Monthly Action Points (MAP) on Women, Peace and Security, NGOWG, March 2010 (NGO), MAP , March 1, 2010
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Advocacy & Education Tools
- Freedom of Information and Women's Rights in Africa, January 28, 2010 [African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)]
- Stop the Bus I want to get on: Lessons from campaign to end violence against Women in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Ghana, October 2008 [Womankind Worldwide]
- ‘Mission Possible': A Gender and Media Advocacy Training Toolkit, 2008
- Gender Mainstreaming In Practice: A Toolkit, 3rd Edition, January 2007 [United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)]
- Head of Household, Survivor of Rape, Market Woman: Engendering Conflict Prevention Through a Holistic Framework for Action, February 2004 [PeaceWomen Project (PW)]
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Organizations
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United Nations Development Fund for Women
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Issues: conflict prevention and post-conflict or peacebuilding work. -
Asylum Access
Asylum Access is an innovative, US-based international nonprofit dedicated to making refugee rights a reality in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We achieve this mission by providing legal information, advice and representation directly to refugees in their first countries of refuge, and by advocating for the rights of refugees worldwide. -
Human Rights Advocates
(HRA)
HRA is a human rights organization based in Berkeley, California. We are dedicated to promoting and protecting international human rights in the United States and abroad. - ActionAid
- African Women's Development Fund (AWDF)
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