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European Women's Lobby - EWL
EWL Centre on Violence Against Women
2010 celebrates the 10th
anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women,
Peace and Security.
CSO Position Paper on
Europe-wide Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325
The European Women’s Lobby is
happy to support the paper ’10 points on 10 years UNSCR 1325 in
The paper has benefited from
worldwide consultation. Over 60 organisations and networks explicitly align
themselves with its recommendations (see final page). For more information,
please contact Sanne Tielemans, coordinator
of the EPLO working group on Gender Peace and Security. Also, would your
organisation or network be interested in signing, please contact her.
In more than 20 countries, the
Global Open Day is helping to kick off preparations for the 10th anniversary of
UN Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. A set of
recommendations from the event will go to the UN Security Council before it
meets in October to debate the resolution’s track record and future
implementation. More information on the Global Open Days here, here
and here.
The petition drive is part of a
larger advocacy work that UNIFEM and partners are undertaking in advancing
women’ security and rights in conflict and post conflict countries. Signatures
collected would make a powerful statement to the UN Security Council when it
meets in October this year to discuss next steps.
Add your name to this petition
and ask your government to support three steps to implement Security Council
resolution 1325:
* Prosecute those who command
and/or commit sexual violence and exclude them from armies and police forces
after conflict.
* Ensure that women participate
in peace negotiations and all post-conflict decision-making institutions.
* Increase the number of women in
troops, police forces and civilians within international peacekeeping efforts.
We encourage you to use the document
which details the strategy behind the petition drive, contains key messages and
outreach materials that you can use/adapt to raise awareness on 1325.
Please read the UN Secretary
General report of April 2010. The UN Security Council has committed on 27 April
to take action on a comprehensive set of indicators on the implementation of
resolution 1325 on women, peace and security by the resolution’s 10th anniversary
in October 2010. These indicators address the impact of war on women and stress
the importance of women’s involvement in conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
In his report, the UN
Secretary-General recommends a global set of indicators on the implementation
of resolution 1325 in four key areas: women’s participation in all aspects of
conflict prevention and peace-making; prevention of violence against women;
protection of women’s rights during and after conflict; and women’s needs in
relief and recovery. The indicators were produced by 14 UN entities under the
leadership of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues. UNIFEM was
assigned the technical lead role, and the indicators were developed in close
consultation with