Women, peace and security: Preventing war and sustaining peace

34 years after Q'eqchi woman Sepur Zarco was raped and enslaved, the court in Guatemala judged that the former officer was guilty of crimes against humanity. This is the first time that courts in any country in the world have adjudicated sex slavery allegations during armed conflict - crime under international law. The court also decided to provide compensation to survivors and their communities. For job justice and peacekeeping, women must be able to identify and experience justice.

Meet Hikmah Bafagih from Malang, East Java, Indonesia. University professors, community organizers, peacebuilders, counselors, mothers, wives - Buffalo have a variety of roles. She is also a religious leader who leads women's groups in Indonesia's largest Muslim organization. Her vision is to create a comprehensive Muslim which she is familiar with. She strongly believes that women are the subject of solidarity and strives to empower local women to support people living with LGBT and people living with HIV.

In Niger, there were more than 300,000 refugees in the Difa district bordering Nigeria, they were deprived from their homes by the Bokoharam militant group, slaughtered, kidnapped and raped. Women and children account for 70% of displaced people. When they arrived at camps for camps and refugees, their emergency and urgent needs were not only evacuation centers, food, water, and medicine. They need sustained psychological support to heal the lost trauma they have experienced, make a living, and build resilience.

After silence and shame for about 20 years during the armed conflict between 1998 and 1999, survivors of Kosovo [2] of sexual violence will soon receive legal recognition and compensation including financial aid. United Nations women provide small subsidies and psychosocial support so that survivors can heal and overcome economic difficulties due to trauma and abandonment.

A 27-year-old peace activist Khadeja Ramali said, "Libyan women are today's leaders ... they do not have to wait until tomorrow to express their views." She thought that peacebuilding would apply only to older political activists. But she changed her mind during the Arab Spring. Today, Ramari promises to give other young women the right to participate in peacebuilding. Giving power to young women is a powerful body to prevent conflict and maintain peace.

[1] All data of the UN Security Council (2017), the Secretary-General's report on women and peace and security, S / 2017/861

[2] All references to Kosovo on this website are to be understood as being fully compliant with UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999).

Including security: Prevention of violent conflict, prevention of war, reconstruction of devastating society, maintenance of peace in vulnerable areas around the world, women to reach out to women's conflicts around the world, Mobilization of peace of women who believes they can fulfill. "Women will begin peace to advocate women's full participation in the formal and informal peace process.This initiative is aimed at educating women and the public policy program at the Harvard University Kennedy government graduate school and alternative hunting law It is managed by.

Peacekeeping. The adoption of Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, promoted by the global organization of peaceful women's grassroots leaders, will ensure that necessary attention to women and girls, the victims of global conflict, They began to make sure they become important They are an important and positive promoter of peacebuilding and peacebuilding. However, as we will see below, we have 55. There are many other specific aspects that reflect the need for women's peacebuilding. In order to make women safe return to public places, reform of gender sensitive security departments is essential. The economic recovery strategy needs to take into account women 's paid unpaid work. Social recovery needs to be prioritized

Women play an important role in ending the conflict and promoting sustainable peace and security. Since women and men experience various conflicts and understand peace in various ways, both need to participate in peace and security. Recognizing the significant impact of conflict on women and its important role in peace activities, the United States is committed to promoting women, peace and security through the Global Peace Initiative (GPOI). The consolidation of more women peacekeeping activists is to satisfy the needs of ex-combatants of women in the process of demobilization and reintegration into civilian living, interviewing survivors of gender-based violence, peacekeeping more Increase the effect of peace activities by making it close to you