2004-2005 Toward Equality: The Global Empowerment of Women
Focus Group I. Responses to Gender
Related Violence in Conflict and Transitional Situations
Co-Chairs: Vesna Kesic and Kelly Askin
Members: Julissa Mantilla, Nicola Gavey, fanny
Cheung, Kamala Liyanage, Monica Maher, Amanuel Asghedom
Goal Statement:
To work with the United Nations and other appropriate
international and domestic institutions to develop a
broad range of responses to violence against women in
conflict situations. This would include legal, non-judicial,
psychological, socio-cultural, and other strategies
to address, redress and prevent this violence.
Next Steps:
- Identify contacts and institutions to work with
inside and outside the UN system,
including military institutions
- Identify and compile documents, existing initiatives
and best practices
Future Long-term Goals:
- Organize a meeting of experts to collaborate with
UN organs and agencies in order to identify how best
to use the UN to respond to gender violence in conflict
situations, and then use these mechanisms or recommendations
- Follow-up on UN obligations impacting gender violence,
including Res 1325 on Women and Peace, and consider
why the requirements (including having women in positions
of power in the peacemaking and peacekeeping processes)
are not being implemented and made recommendations
on how to redress this issue
- Consider recommendations from UN reports, including
the reports flowing from Resolution1325, with an aim
to generate support for the best recommendations,
including a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on
Wartime Violence Against Women
- Produce a manual, edited book or collection of
papers on violence against women in conflict situations;
include responses to the violence, voices and stories
of victims-survivors, best practices, UN documents,
and training curricula
- Consider ways of impacting military institutions
to ensure that there is awareness that gender violence
is a war crime and punishable as such
- Ensure that responses to violence include inter-ethnic,
religious, and politically motivated violence
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