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NATO
Policy On Gender Related Issues In Deployment.
Women in the NATO Forces (WIN) has
just issued a draft paper titled NATO Policy
On Gender Related Issues In Deployment. All enquiries to Major Penny
Dimitriou or SSGT Sabine Kreuz,
Office on Women in the NATO Forces, NATO Headquarters, International Military
Staff, e-mail Dims.win@hq.nato.int
Tel. +32 2
707 5762.
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3.
The objective of this gender policy is to set guidelines and recommendations to
NATO Member States and NATO Authorities on how to identify the various gender
issues and how to integrate gender perspectives into all aspects of NATO
deployment and peace support operations in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution
1325 passed in 2000*. Integrating gender perspective in all aspects of
operations from early conflict prevention to post-conflict reconstruction should
become routine.
5. NATO
member states re-affirm their commitment to ratification, acceptance or approval
of the UN Resolution 1325 and agree:
a) to review national legislation
and to report on national efforts to meet obligations associated with the
implementation of UN Resolution 1325,
(b) to ensure full national
implementation of this policy in order to guarantee maximum effectiveness
(Non-NATO Troop contributing nations are
expected to take similar steps upon joining a NATO-led
operation);
(c) that this policy is aimed at
securing gender awareness to improve operational
effectiveness;
(d) that all personnel taking part in NATO led-operations should receive appropriate training to make them aware of the gender issues;
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