Any conversation about eliminating violence against women needs to look clearly at the police as a source of insecurity and violence in women’s lives.
Tag: women peace and security
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An understanding of the gendered insecurities entrenched by natural disasters points to the need to expand the scope of the WPS agenda in order to address the structural violence of the climate crisis.
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Many within the UN community are not clear on what a gender analysis entails.
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COVID-19 has put all progress towards women’s empowerment made so far at risk.
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Madeleine Rees, secretary-general of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, discusses the state of the WPS agenda and lessons for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Understanding the historical use of female engagement teams in peacekeeping will be critical as the UN standardizes its approach to and justification for using engagement platoons.
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Local Action Plans have the potential to ignite lasting, creative, and meaningful change at the community-level.
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Taking victimhood seriously requires moving away from a view of it as always synonymous with vulnerability or lack of agency, or as entirely reduced to the experience of victimization.
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Dr. Haastrup discusses how feminism, generosity, and inclusion can strengthen the implementation of WPS.
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WPS practitioners and policymakers have real concerns about the ways in which P/CVE policies could harm women.
