Women Activism Peace Iraq Violence

The inspiration to make this post came from the following video: STAND UP



The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) condemns the killings of women in Basra and Umara and calls for women's protection services.


A portal on women, peace and security
Here it is one aim to provide information to encourage researchers, policy makers, analysts and NGOs so they can routinely include, seek and contribute more information and analysis on women, war and peace.
Some subjects are:
* Peace-building and conflict resolution initiatives
* Reconciliation mechanisms
* Increasing access to justice
* Access to support services
* Conflict monitoring systems

Women are relevant to negotiating peace agreements, planning refugee camps and peacekeeping operations and reconstructing war-torn societies.

Resolution 1325 (2000) holds out a promise to women across the globe that their rights will be protected and that barriers to their equal participation and full involvement in the maintenance and promotion of sustainable peace will be removed. We must uphold this promise. See the UN Security Council Documents

"By establishing the Commission, Member States of the United Nations have created an important new structure to support fragile societies recovering from the devastation of war."
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 27 June 2007
United Nations Peacebuilding Commission

Women worked and work in the peacebuilding process
Division for the Advancement of Women.

There is not a single country in the world that is free from violence against women. The vision of the Gender, Peace and Security Programme is to promote gender equality and women’s full and equal participation in the realms of peacekeeping, peace processes, post-conflict reconstruction and the reform of security institutions.

The International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation covering over 60 crisis-affected countries and territories across four continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. Crisis Group, working to prevent conflict worldwide.

Watch out when 'people' got a big mouth.
The probability for the best information
to be wrong, might be 50 % :)

Concerning armaments, disarmament and international security you might check SIPRI that is the 'Stockholm International Peace Research Institute'.
For your research you find here subjects like: armed conflicts and conflict management, arms transfers, surveys, databases as well as information on chemical and biological warfare etc.

A lot of open documents on subjects like conflict resolution, education in emergencies, securtiy, missing women, forced migration etc. etc. (have a look at it, it's a long list on the subject 'gender'.

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