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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.
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.
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 ...
The Asian Today is a free fortnightly community newspaper published and distributed in the Midlands, England.. It is a community newspaper providing the region's south-Asian community access to important news stories, current events and encouraging community interaction and dialogue as well as provoking debate and discussion.
Pioneering women's rights advocate and peacemaker, she is the co-founder of the Mindanao Commission on Women, an NGO composed of Moro, Christian, and indigenous women leaders. she was awarded for her commitment to advancing the significant role of women in the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Role Models for Peace Philippines Valentina Sagala
The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security is a coalition of eighteen NGOs, which collectively advocate for the equal and full participation of women in all efforts to create and maintain international peace and security. Formed in 2000 to call for a Security Council resolution on women, peace, and security, original members were:
New Directions in Women, Peace and Security. Bristol University Press. ISBN 978-1-5292-0777-4. Davies, S.E.; True, J. (2019). The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security. Oxford Handbooks Series. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-063827-6. Women and Gender Perspectives in the Military: An International Comparison. Georgetown ...
On May 24, 2015, International Women's Day for Disarmament, [2] thirty women—including Gloria Steinem, two Nobel Peace laureates and retired Colonel Ann Wright—from 15 different countries linked arms with 10,000 Korean women, stationing themselves on both sides of the DMZ to urge a formal end to the Korean War (1950–1953), the reunification of families divided during the war, and a peace ...