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Women’s UN Report Network on women, religion, belief and human rights
The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Ms. Asma Jahanhir, has documented: "Many of the Special Rapporteur’s communications and urgent appeals concern cases where women suffer from aggravated discrimination with regard to their religious, ethnic, and sexual identities. Discrimination and practices that are harmful to the health of women and girls are also applied within their religious communities for reasons of religious traditions, or those ascribed to religion." The Special Rapporteur also notes with regret that "Women continue to be largely excluded from the decision-making processes within most religious communities. The process is, indeed, usually a monopoly for men. In order to exercise their full human rights, women therefore have to negotiate with religious beliefs and traditional values.
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Article on rape and peace:
"Terrible, unspeakable things have been done to the women of DR Congo. I want simply to argue that MONUC has it within its mandate to end the reign of terror. If it so chooses, MONUC can also have it within its power to end the reign of terror. Whatever MONUC feels it lacks to protect the women of the Congo --- numbers, police, equipment, training, time, leadership, resources --- let them demand it. And if those demands aren’t met, let them tell the world that madness is at work and it knows no end." Read the article Peace Is an Illusion When Rape Continues – By Stephen Lewis
Involving men in the implementation of UN SCR 1325 - Gender Action for Peace and Security
Published by the Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS), this report is based on a discussion held in conjunction with GAPS and the High Commission for Canada on involving men in the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325. It focuses on how and why SCR 1325 is relevant to men, as well as broader efforts to build sustainable peace. It explores strategies to increase their engagement with work around SCR 1325 at the UK and international levels.
To read the full article, please visit:
http://www.eplo.org/documents/gaps%20report.pdf
Disarm Men, Don’t Arm Women
- Militarization is not emancipation
By: Shelley Anderson – IFOR/WPP
Is an increase in the number of women joining the military a sign
of women’s emancipation? No! It is a sign of the increasing
militarization of society, which benefits neither women nor the Netherlands
as a whole.
The issue is not whether women are capable or qualified for military
duties. In many industrialized countries women are 10 percent or more
of the formal militaries. Women comprise thirty percent of many armed
opposition groups. Women’s skills and leadership abilities are
clear.
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Women lead in peace and stability
By CEDPA
Read the stories from an extraordinary group of women who are mediating conflict, caring for refugees, restoring communities and building more responsive governments. These 15 leaders came together for CEDPA’s (Centre for Development and Population Activities) Women lead in promoting peace and stability workshop, held Oct. 23–Nov. 17, 2006 in Washington, D.C. Each has a powerful story to tell about the conflict in her country, and how women are building lasting peace by rewriting constitutions, negotiating human rights protections, securing access to land and water, and changing mindsets that limit women’s roles in their communities.
To read the publication, please visit: http://www.cedpa.org/content/publication/detail/1718
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My Only Clan Is Womanhood
- Building women's peace identities
By: Shelley Anderson – WPP
The belief that war is inevitable is closely connected with the belief
in certain fixed gender roles. War demands a pool of men conditioned
to use violence upon command. It also demands a pool of women who
support this use of violence. Changing such gender roles undermines
the very essence of a war system.
But can human beings change? Is war inevitable? Are men inherently
violence and women inherently passive? Fortunately the answer is no.
Change is possible.
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Gender equality forgotten in UN reform process
Speech
By: Stephen Lewis, 26 February 2006
In a conference on UN reform and human rights, Stephen Lewis,
the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa criticized how the multilateral
system is disgorging a high-level panel of fifteen people to look
at the re-design of all those areas of the United Nations system which
so significantly address the lives of women, but only three members
of the panel are women.
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