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UN report 2011: more women needed in peace process

Ten-year Impact Study on Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security in Peacekeeping

"New York, United Nations, 8 February 2011 – Greater action is needed by United Nations peacekeeping missions – working with local women, national authorities and UN Member States – to increase the limited participation of women in peace negotiations, national security institutions and governance in post-conflict situations, says a UN study launched today.

The impact study – conducted a decade after the adoption of landmark Security Council resolution 1325 on women and peace and security, the first to address the specific impacts of conflict on women and call for women's engagement in peace processes – reports a mixed record on the overall contribution of UN peacekeeping to the implementation of the resolution."...  more Also full report as pdf download

Links to key women's peace groups and sources of information

• UrGently Fierce Feminism In Perilous Times: The Feminist Peace Network is dedicated to building an enduring peace, which must include ending violence towards women and children. Check the link list of "friends" on the opening page.

• The PeaceWomen Project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom "promotes the role of women in preventing conflict, and the equal and full participation of women in all efforts to create and maintain international peace and security. PeaceWomen facilitates monitoring of the UN system, information sharing and the enabling of meaningful dialogue for positive impact on women’s lives in conflict and post-conflict environments."

• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom: the oldest women's peace group -- 90 years of international action for peace

• Reaching Critical Will Another project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,  focuses on nuclear disarmament

• CODEPINK is a women initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and non-violent direct action.

• MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with women's community-based groups in conflict areas worldwide."

Women in Black is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice, war, militarism and other forms of violence.

WomenWarPeace.org: UNIFEM's website project with much information

Focus on the Middle East

Women Living Under Muslim Laws: an international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. 

Women's groups active for peace in Israel/Palestine

• Bat Shalom - the Israeli side of The Jerusalem Link: A Women's Joint Venture for Peace, seeking peace through partnership with Palestinian women.
• Coalition of Women for Peace - brings together independent women and 10 feminist peace organizations who work relentlessly for peace and justice. Founded in November 2000, after the outbreak of the Second Intifada, the Coalition today is a leading voice in the peace movement.
• International Women's Peace Service - documents human rights abuses, works with the media, and non-violently intervenes in conflict situations  
• Machsom Watch - women monitoring military checkpoints to end the abuse of Palestinians at these locations.
• Women in Black - holding vigils throughout the world to stop violence and injustice, founded in Jerusalem in 1988 to end the occupation.
• Rachel Corrie website: in memoriam
  
  Sources of information
• http://www.kibush.co.il/- "news, summaries and commentary by people opposing the occupation"

Archive

Women in Black international reports and actions

Israeli peace activist and writer Gila Svirsky reports from Jerusalem

Cindy Sheehan writes and acts

War on Lebanon: „We want only one thing: Peace“ German 'free-lance' journalist Karin Leukefeld left Bonn this month and was able to reach Beirut, where she sent this report, published in German in “Neues Deutschland” on 10 August 2006 (original at link):
http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AID=95201&IDC=2
We thank her for her courage and continuing coverage of the region.

Ideological Arsonists, or War starts in our Minds
By Maria Mies, Cologne, Germany
On International Women’s Day 2006
It’s not enough for women to say: “That’s enough!”