The Relief and Recovery Pillar of the Women, Peace and Security agenda focuses on ensuring that relief needs specific to women and girls are met and that special attention is paid to the most vulnerable, including displaced women and girls, survivors of gender based violence, and those with disabilities.

The MADRE organization held an event dedicated to the theme of violence against indigenous women, where they also shared strategies for combating violence against indigenous women. The event was held as a side event as part of the larger Twelfth Session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

This online course will focus on outlining the many social and structural factors that lead to domestic violence, in particular, patriarchy, classism, and militarism. It will also highlight the ways domestic violence harms our communities, from increased healthcare costs to school-based problems, increased incarceration, reduced economic productivity and more.

The Final United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 18-28 March 2013. It was a follow-up on the work of the July 2012 Conference. It was designated as “final” to reflect the overwhelming commitment to conclude the ATT process and reach an agreement and produce a balanced, robust and effective Arms trade Treaty.

On April 10th, 2013 PeaceWomen observed a panel discussion on women's role in security system reform organized by the United States Institute of Peace. This event was also a promotion of the recently launched publication, “A Women's Guide to Security Sector Reform." The progress that has been made in advancing and promoting women's inclusion is noticeable in the shift of the rhetorical question from where are the women?

When men could not leave their homes for fear of beating and arrest, women used their apparent harmlessness to transport food, books, and medicine to freedom fighters and communities under siege. They organized the underground Albanian language educational system when their children were ousted from public schools. They held secret elections in homes and shops.

In Person:

A panel discussion/book launch for the Essay collection titled, "Applying a Disarmament lens to gender, human rights, development, security, education and communication." The panelists will create an open dialogue on the six essays.

Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Igballe Rogova, Executive Director, Kosova Women's Network. Igo will talk about the struggle to ensure women's voices were heard during and after the conflict in Kosovo. When Igballe ("Igo") Rogova first heard that Serbian women protested regularly against the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Slobodan Milosevic-led regime against Kosovo Albanians, she had to see for herself.

The seminar will be dedicated to discussing the upcoming Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) negotiations and how to secure a reference to prevention of gender-based violence in the ATT. It aims to bring together different actors working with the ATT in order to emphasize the importance many civil society organization place on this specific topic.