WUNRN
AUSTRALIA NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON
WOMEN, PEACE & SECURITY:
UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325
- CONSULATION DRAFT
Consultations Close - 18 October
2011
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AAP - August 18, 2011
AUSTRALIA
has drawn up an action plan to promote the role of women in international
conflict resolution and cut down on sexual violence.
Minister for Women Kate Ellis said the draft plan was part of Australia's
response to UN resolution 1325 which recognises the impact of war on women and
girls, their increased vulnerability to sexual violence and their exclusion
from peace agreements and post-conflict reconstruction.
She said the fate of women in conflict zones was dire.
They were raped, abducted, humiliated, abused, forced into slavery, and
ostracised from their families and communities, she said.
"Women's bodies in fact have become part of the battleground for
war," Ms Ellis said in a speech at Parliament House in Canberra today.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Central African Republic and
Sudan there had been mass sexual violence, including mass rape and sexual
slavery of women and girls.