Women in an Insecure World

Factsheet - Women in an Insecure World, 2005-2006

2006

Données Essentielles - French language version Executive Summary of Women in an Insecure World: Violence Against Women - Facts, Figures and Analysis, Marie Vlachová and Lea Biason (eds.), 2006

2005

Executive Summary of Women in an Insecure World: Violence Against Women - Facts, Figures and Analysis, Marie Vlachová and Lea Biason (eds.), 2005

Women in an Insecure World: Violence Against Women - Facts, Figures and Analysis
Marie Vlachová and Lea Biason (eds.), 2005

2004

Women in an Insecure World: A Handbook on Violence Against Women - Excerpts
Marie Vlachová and Lea Biason (eds.), 2004

Making the World a More Secure Place: Combating Violence Against Women
Marie Vlachová and Lea Biason, 2004

Violence against Women as a Challenge for Security Sector Governance, Marie Vlachová and Lea Biason, in: Challenges of Security Sector Governance Heiner Hänggi and Theodor H. Winkler (eds).

Women in an Insecure World

"Women in an Insecure World" policy papers, book, film and teaching materials

DCAF has published a number of papers on women and security. In July 2005, DCAF published the book Women in an Insecure World: Violence against women – facts, figures and analysis (M. Vlachová and L. Biason (eds.), Geneva, 2005, ISBN 92-9222-028-4).

The book was launched in Geneva, Washington DC and New York in late 2005, and will be launched in Alexandria, Brussels and London, in early 2006. It is being widely disseminated as a key resource in understanding and responding to violence against women, and promoting women’s roles as security sector actors.

A 45-minute documentary will complement the Women in an Insecure World book, showing in several portraits how women and girls all over the world suffer from violence. As well as being widely broadcast, the film will be distributed as a teaching tool, and be used to develop other teaching resources.

Women and security sector reform

DCAF will continue to develop and promote policy on women and security sector reform and governance.

Empowerment of women as security sector actors

In 2004, DCAF organised the International Conference Women Defending Peace, co-chaired by Suzanne Mubarak, President of the Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement, and Micheline Calmy-Rey, Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland. The conference formed a Global Coalition – Women Defending Peace, of which DCAF is a partner.

DCAF will continue to develop projects to:

• increase the involvement of women parliamentarians in security sector governance; and

• increase acceptance within the security sector of the importance of women’s full participation in security sector governance, peacemaking, peacebuilding, and other security processes.

Collaboration with other DCAF activities

DCAF will continue to explore ways in which the "Women in an Insecure World" project can work with other DCAF programmes to incorporate actions to end violence against women and to empower women as security sector actors into their activities.

One planned area of collaboration is between the "Women and Children in an Insecure World" programme and DCAF’s Border Guards projects, to address human trafficking.