Access to services and supports for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence is becoming more constrained in a growing number of situations across the world.
Tag: women peace and security
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Reforming peacekeeping to foster sustainable peace must include an interrogation of militarized masculinities and their harmful gendered consequences.
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The prevention pillar of the WPS agenda focuses on preventing the root causes of war and violence. Efforts being made under the protection and participation pillars can fundamentally contradict the prevention pillar. Nowhere is this more visible than in Afghanistan.
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Despite occurring in the same contexts, sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) have largely remained theoretically and practically separated. This obscures the overlap between SEA and CRSV and denies survivors of SEA pathways to justice, including through post-conflict transitional justice mechanisms.
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In this first interview since being appointed president and CEO of the International Peace Institute (IPI) in March 2020, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein shares his views on the Women, Peace and Security agenda and the role of the United Nations.
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How the ten elected members of the Security Council act, and the issues they raise, can have a lasting effect.
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If the WPS agenda does not recognize the relationship between participation and protection it will continue to perpetuate the binary between the participation of women as leaders with agency and the protection of women as passive victims of conflict.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and growing recognition of climate-related security risks have presented the international community with an opportunity to reevaluate what is considered a threat to international peace and security, and how gender should be included in the response.
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Rehema Zaid, an activist in Kenya, discusses the experiences of local actors working on gender and preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE).
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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.
