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Security Sector Reform


Security Sector Reform is a sub-theme of Reconstruction & Peacebuilding, and provides information relevant to Security Sector Reform in post-conflict situations and the intersection of SSR with the women, peace and security agenda.

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  • March 27, 2012 (The New Times (Rwanda))
    RWANDA: 70 Female Police Officers Complete Training A group of 77 police officers, 70 of them women, were yesterday commissioned after completing a three-month Police basic training at Police Training School in Gishari, Rwamagana District.
  • February 12, 2012 (International Solidarity Movement)
    OPT: Meitar Checkpoint: Women Demand an End to Strip-Searching by Israeli Military and Prison Administration A demonstration was held Sunday, February 12th at the Meitar checkpoint north of Beer Sheba in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in the Naqab (Negev) region as well as their family members who must pass through this checkpoint to visit them. The demonstration was organised by the Al-Khalil (Hebron) chapter of the Palestinian Prisoners Society and was attended by affected families, along with Palestinian and International supporters.
  • February 12, 2012 (AFP)
    AFGHANISTAN: Afghan Women Fear Taliban Return As tentative steps are made towards peace talks between the United States and Taliban insurgents, Afghan women are worried about a possible return of the hardline Islamists to the capital Kabul.
  • January 10, 2012 (The Africa Report)
    DRC: Protectors or Sexual Predators "A dead rat is worth more than the body of a woman." Those were the words of one distraught young woman whom I met in Walikale in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 2010. As the world was once again outraged at the reports of mass rapes in early June 2011 in the South Kivu, her words came back to me. Those attacks marked the fourth incident in a series of mass rapes which took place in the previous 18 months in the country. Hundreds of children, women and men have been left to recover with little or no assistance.
  • December 9, 2011 (Taipei Times)
    ISRAEL: Lecture, The Price of Peace Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada (Palestinian uprising) in 2000, Dalit Baum joined the Coalition of Women for Peace, a feminist organization formed by Palestinian and Jewish women who work together for a lasting and just peace.

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Gender & Security Sector Reform Toolkit

The Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit includes:

  • User Guide
  • 12 Tools (20 pages)
  • 12 Practice Notes (4 pages, based on the Tools)
  • Annex on International and Regional Laws and Instruments related to SSR and Gender

Gender & Security Sector Reform Toolkit

 

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