Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kirthi was born as Kirthi Jayakumar in Bangalore, India, to Hindu parents.She studied law at the School of Excellence in Law, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. [6] [7]She earned her MA in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica, [8] and an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Centre for Trust, Peace, and Security at Coventry University, on a ...
The observations highlight how the Council considers the issue of women and armed conflict important to international peace and security. They express the Council's concern about civilians in armed conflict, particularly women and children, who constitute most of the victims of conflict [citation needed] and who are increasingly targeted by armed groups.
In October 2000, the passage of U.N. SCR 1325 was passed, and became a turning point for the issue of Women, Peace and Security. [35] Adopted after the Security Council issued a presidential statement on International Women's Day in March, it was acknowledged that there was a strong relationship between gender equality and peace building ...
Women's rights in Afghanistan are severely restricted by the Taliban.In 2023, the United Nations termed Afghanistan as the world's most repressive country for women. [4] Since the US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban gradually imposed restrictions on women's freedom of movement, education, and employment.
ACWC was established "to promote and protect the rights of women and children to ensure their equitable development in the region." [ 1 ] ACWC as an organization is able to monitor other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) objectives as they relate to women and children.
Global organisation 'Women in International Security' focused on extending the role of women in security. Building on established themes within security studies such as war, conflict, organised violence and peace, FSS examines how social constructions of gender has an impact on how these themes operate institutionally and structurally. [3]
Security is defined as being at the individual, community, and societal levels. This dimension contains four indicators. Intimate partner violence, measured as the percentage of women whom have had a partner in their lifetime and have experienced physical or sexual violence by a partner in the past 12 months.
The United Nations Security Council adopted resolution (S/RES/1325) on women and peace and security on 31 October 2000. The resolution reaffirms the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, peace negotiations, peace-building, peacekeeping, humanitarian response and in post-conflict reconstruction and stresses the importance of their equal participation and full ...