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UNIFEM WOMEN, WAR AND PEACE WEB PORTAL: GENDER AND PEACEKEEPING ISSUE BRIEF 

Background
An understanding of gender issues is critical to peacekeeping activities because of the need for peacekeeping personnel to respond appropriately to the different ways that women, men, girls and boys are affected by armed conflict and its aftermath. With the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1325, the United Nations and member states have expressed commitment to incorporating gender perspectives into peacekeeping operations, increasing the number of women in peacekeeping, training peacekeeping personnel on gender, and ensuring that UN field operations include a gender component.

For the language on gender and peacekeeping in SCR 1325, and other international policy instruments, click HERE

An introduction to UN peacekeeping (DPKO)

The UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) website provides detailed information on the history of UN peacekeeping, current operations, priority issues, challenges and more

The Gender Adviser at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations is housed in the Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit. For more information, click HERE

Peacekeeping Watch: Monitoring Human Rights Violations by UN Peacekeepers and Efforts to Address Them

Peacekeeping Watch is a project focused on monitoring sexual exploitation and abuse by UN Peacekeepers, and documenting efforts to address such abuse. In the past decade, accounts have surfaced of violations committed by peacekeepers against civilians, in a particular women and girls, during UN peacekeeping operations.

Resolution Watch: Monitoring the Gender Content of Security Council Resolutions Since 2000

Resolution Watch is a resource developed by the PeaceWomen Project in order to highlight the language on women and gender issues that has been adopted specifically in the Security Council’s resolutions addressing all current and upcoming peacekeeping operations.

Events

 

As part of its overall mandate, the UN's Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C-34) has included reporting on gender issues in its "Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects.”

For more information on the C-34 and analysis and documentation from recent sessions, click HERE


For other gender and peacekeeping events, click HERE

Liberia: Latest UNMIL Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) report shows a decline in reported allegations, as UN Envoy urges zero tolerance to SEA

August 20, 2008 (African Press Organization) — A new Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) report from the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) covering the period January to June 2008 says only five (5) allegations of SEA were reported during the period. These allegations involving UNMIL personnel are four less than the nine (9) reported in the period from July-December 2007.

 

For more Peacekeeping News, click HERE

 

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Challenges and Opportunities in Peace Operations: The Incorporation of Women
Latin American Security and Defense Network (RESDAL), 2008

This brocure addresses the lack of women in peacekeeping missions, even when, since 2000, the Secretary-General has encouraged the troop contributing countries to expand and reinforce the hiring and incorporation mechanisms of women.

To read the brochure in English, please click here
To read the brochure in Spanish, please click here


For more Peacekeeping Resources, click HERE

Facts on gender and peacekeeping

Out of 19 current peacekeeping operations, there is currently 1 woman appointed as SRSG (Special Representative to the Secretary-General ) and 1 woman in the position of DSRSG (Deputy Special Representative to the Secretary-General) .

For more facts, click HERE

Links

 

Links to websites that provide information on gender issues in a peacekeeping context

For more, click HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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