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Getting informed about women and gun violence

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International Alert’s Gender and Peace-building Programme Engendering Peace Newsletter

The latest edition’s theme is “The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality.” With articles from Afghanistan, South Africa, Sweden and the USA it is an interesting read. The next edition of ENGENDERING PEACE (summer 2004) will focus on “Small Arms and Gender.”

International Alert Engendering Peace Newsletter, June 2004

Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the protection of civilians in armed conflict

On 14 June 2004, the Security Council held an open debate on the protection of civilians in armed conflict, welcoming the Secretary-General’s fourth report on the same theme. A section of the report deals with disarmament, demobilisation, reintegration and rehabilitation programmes relating to incorporating gender perspectives and the needs of children.

Security Council, S/2004/431, 28 May 2004

Progress report of Barbara Frey, Special Rapporteur on the prevention of human rights violations committed with small arms and light weapons

The latest report from the Special Rapporteur asserts that small arms misuse has adverse consequences on the human rights of women, and that small arms are used as tools for rape and other forms of gender-based violence. Male-dominated societies often justify small arms possession through the alleged need to protect vulnerable women, though women actually face greater danger of violence when their families and communities are armed. Further, Frey notes that the exclusion of women from shaping policies relating to small arms allows the social manipulation of the gender-based “gun culture” to continue, with devastating impacts on communities.

Barbara Frey, ECOSOC, 21 June 2004

Militarization and Gender in Development Cooperation, Newsletter "Gender and Peace-building"

The newsletter examines the points of intersection of militarisation, gender and development cooperation. It takes issue with the changing conceptions and roles of women and men in militarisation processes before, during and after violent conflicts in relation to the practical work of development cooperation. The newsletter is available in German, English and French.

01/04 Published by CFD
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Liberian Women Peacemakers: Fighting for the Right to be Seen, Heard and Counted

For 14 years the women of Liberia risked their lives and livelihoods to bring peace to their war-wracked country. Liberian Women Peacemakers tells their stories in their own words. Against all odds, Liberian women organised, pleading with young soldiers to lay down their guns, and to allow convoys of food to go through their checkpoints to the hungry.

African Women and Peace Support Group, 2004
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Betrayal in the Ranks: Sexual Assault in the US Military

Thousands of women have been sexually assaulted in the United States military. Thousands more have been abused by their military husbands or boyfriends. And then they are victimised again. This time, the women are betrayed by the military itself. More than 50 women told The Denver Post their stories. "They said they would order him not to talk to me, but I told them that that wouldn't stop bullets from hitting me," Walker says. "I felt the military abandoned me."

Denver Post, Updated Regularly

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IANSA’s International Week of Action 1 – 10 July 2004
NGO PROFILE: Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
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