More on Women, Peace and Security

12 August 2008: Innovative funding for women's organisations. Funding support for women’s organisations and for non-governmental organisations working to achieve gender equality is an important element in many donors strategies. These organisations often have detailed knowledge of social and cultural barriers to gender equality. They can also recognise and address the impact of gender inequalities at local, national and international level.

11 August 2008: Women Living Under Muslim Law network urges for police protection for Mohamed Sifaoui, an Algerian journalist and human rights defender living in France. For many years Mr Sifaoui has been inundated with hate mail and death threats over the telephone and is now regularly threatened by Muslim fundamentalists in the street; he was physically assaulted in broad daylight in Paris on June 13, 2008.

6 August 2008: Iran's has suspended the punishment of death by stoning, state media say. A judiciary spokesman said four people sentenced to die by stoning had had their sentences commuted and that all other cases had been put under review. For more info, visit also http://www.wluml.org

5 August 2008: MDG3 Fund has received overwhelming interest from organizations worldwide. It showes the great demand for funds for genderjustice.

5 August 2008: Security Sector Reform & Gender. This paper gives examples and practical suggestions relating to security systems and services. The most important recommendation in this paper is to make use of gender perspectives, expertise and instruments in everything associated with security, and learn from the
examples that are available.

5 August 2008: Pressure on women’s rights activists continues unimpeded in Iran. The continued detention of Mahboubeh Karami and Bahareh Hedayat demonstrates that the pressure on women’s rights activists continues unimpeded in Iran.

4 August 2008: Gender-based Violence, Both Cause and Consequence of HIV and AIDS. During the International Aids Conference in Mexico City, Ms. Obaid, Executive Director of the UNPF, told participants that gender-based violence can be both the cause and consequence of HIV and AIDS. For many women, gender-based violence is a reality both in times of peace as well as in times of war.

30 July 2008: Gender Training and Fragile States: What works? This report presents the findings of the workshop “Gender, Security, and Fragile State: What Works in Gender Training” from Gender and Peacebuilding Working Group of Peacebuild and Oxfam Canada.

18 July 2008: Uganda: “Today you will understand” – Women’s war stories from northern Uganda: an IRIN booklet and audio CD

28 June 2008: Women Solidarity Mission to Zimbabwe. African women attending Femmes Africa Solidarité’s 12th Consultative Meeting on gender mainstreaming in the African Union held in Egypt in June 2008, agreed to send a Women Solidarity Mission to Zimbabwe to support women of that country after the Presidential Run-Off election of June 27, 2008.

28 June 2008: Gender is My Agenda: The participants of the 12th African Union (AU) Pre-Summit Consultative Meeting on Gender Mainstreaming in the African Union discussed new challenges and strategies of advocacy for effective gender parity policies and practice, assessed progress and shortcomings in the implementation of the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (SDGEA) during these last years and make recommendations to the President of the AU Commission and the commissioners.

23 June 2008: African Women Leaders Forum Calls for More Female Peacekeeping Troops to Protect Women in Conflict. The African women, who met to discuss the state of women affairs in the continent ahead of the African Union (AU) semi-annual conference convening in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, also called for an urgent end to violence against women in Africa.

19 June 2008: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1820 on Sexual Violence against Civilians in Conflict

18 March 2008: “Five Years Later, a Hidden Crisis” - report by the International Rescue Committee’s Commission on Iraqi Refugees