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WOMEN LEADERS AT UN-HOSTED FORUM
URGE JUST &
PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF
ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
3 June 2010 – Women leaders attending a United Nations-hosted
conference in
The conference, co-hosted by the International Women’s Commission for a Just and Sustainable Israeli-Palestinian Peace, was convened in part to mark the 10-year anniversary of the passage of Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.
The landmark resolution, adopted by the
Council in 2000, stresses the importance of giving women equal participation
and full involvement in peace and security matters and the need to increase
their role in decision-making.
“There are reasons for hope,” Inés Alberdi,
Executive Director of the UN Development Fund (UNIFEM),
told participants at the opening of the two-day meeting yesterday.
“Women in conflict-affected regions worldwide
have successfully leveraged support for women’s leadership and inclusion at all
stages of conflict resolution and peacebuilding as mandated by UN resolution
1325.”
Conference participants, including government
leaders and nearly 100 experts on women’s human and political rights and the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening
joint action in seeking an end to the occupation and achieve a two-State
solution, with Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace.
An urgent priority, according to a news
release issued at the end of the conference, was the “pressing need to end the
siege on
On Monday
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate and
honorary member of the Commission, urged the Israeli and Palestinian
participants to see the attack on the flotilla as a tipping point and vastly
scale up mobilization for peace, justice and women’s leadership in resolving
the conflict.
Participants also highlighted, among others,
the importance of mobilizing Israeli and Palestinian constituencies and leaders
to demand concrete steps towards ending the occupation and achieving a
sustainable two-State solution.
The Commission, formed in 2005 in an effort to
strengthen implementation of resolution 1325, is comprised of Palestinian,
Israeli and international women’s leaders and is co-chaired by Liberian
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Finnish President Tarja Halonen.
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