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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 ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children (ACWC) was established on April 7, 2010, in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. [1] [2] Calls for the creation of ACWC had started as early as 2004 and the scope was decided by 2009. [3]
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 ...
Miriam Coronel-Ferrer is a Filipino peace negotiator who was the chair of the peace panel of the government of the Philippines during the time of President Simeon Benigno Aquino III (2010–2016). On behalf of the government, Coronel-Ferrer signed the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front . [ 1 ]
The Women in Peace and Security Programme (WIPSEN or "PeaceWomen") was founded in 2000. It monitors the UN's work in field of women, peace and security, taken part in advocacy and outreach. [21] [22] WIPSEN-Africa was founded in 2006 by Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, Nigerian activist Thelma Ekiyor, and Ecoma Bassey Alaga, and is based in Ghana.
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 ...
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.