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WOMEN’S RESPONSES TO THE ADOPTION OF SC RESOLUTION 1820

WOMEN’S RESPONSES TO THE ADOPTION OF SC RESOLUTION 1820. Compiled by the International Women’s Tribune Centre. Women’s Groups and NGOs. Women’s Groups and NGOs Cont…. Women’s Groups and NGOs Cont…. Reporting.

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WOMEN’S RESPONSES TO THE ADOPTION OF SC RESOLUTION 1820

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  1. WOMEN’S RESPONSES TO THE ADOPTION OF SC RESOLUTION 1820 Compiled by the International Women’s Tribune Centre

  2. Women’s Groups and NGOs

  3. Women’s Groups and NGOs Cont…

  4. Women’s Groups and NGOs Cont…

  5. Reporting • Resolution should make reality known, denounce and condemn the crimes of rapes and sexual violence as tactics of war. • Support data collection by the community groups, NGOs to chronicle experiences, needs and roles in families and communities. • Ensure direct communication between activists on the ground with the UN Secretary General • Ensure inclusion of widows and wives of the missing in data collection

  6. Prevention /Protection • Address causes of inequalities • Raise awareness among communities • Create mechanisms for punishing perpetrators • Involve women in prevention of war and conflict • Deployment of female peace keeping forces • Challenge impunity • Neutralize networks of weapons traffickers

  7. Prevention /Protection Cont… • Address abuses by UN troops • Police and other forces need more training to understand women's human rights and to be at their finger tips. • Continue capacity building and mobilisation to ensure that women get the power within to demand for the promotion, protection and respect of their human rights, especially the right to participate in governance at all levels

  8. Victim Assistance • Integrate care for the victims in responses to conflict such as free access to immediate medical care and legal services. • Better coordination of programs for all the money allocated to reach the intended beneficiaries • More resources into healthcare, psychological counseling, and rehabilitation of the victims and their children • Give women empowering options for livelihoods

  9. Victim Assistance continued • Ensure bottom up approaches of designing of programs. • Develop rescue mechanisms and rehabilitation programmes for women and girls in distress including reconciliation and integration back into the community.

  10. Strengthening National Justice Systems • Include the strengthening of national judicial systems as an integral element of the mandate of UN missions in conflict zones. • Improve access to justice and support for truth and reconciliation measures. • Ensure training of all personnel involved in administering justice from local headmen and chiefs, traditional leaders, police, prosecutors/lawyers.

  11. Strengthening National Justice Systems continued… • Ensure accountably of justice systems. • Ensure safety and sensitivity and confidentiality of criminal justice systems so that women can report sexual violence including rape...witness protection needs to be ensured.

  12. Long-term/General strategy • Encourage all member states to assign a budget for work towards fighting sexual violence • Support monitoring of implementation of 1325 and 1820. • Ensure accountability of government systems • Networking to strengthen partnership among internal and international departments, development partners, international NGOs and communities

  13. Long-term/general strategy continued… • Put in place a proximity mechanism in charge of monitoring previous relevant resolutions concerning women, including Resolution 1325, UDHR, CEDAW, Beijing Platform for action • Encourage member states to honor obligations to various international conventions • Set up International Women Tribunal Courts to try cases of sexual violence • Reflect essence of 1820 in national action plans of 1325

  14. Long-term/General strategy • Increase fund allocation for implementation; share information on fund raising • Use all available media – esp radio – to sensitize communities, challenge governments and warring groups

  15. Other comments • 1820 Provides a much stronger legal basis to bring sexual violence cases into justice - International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) ; Judge NavanethemPillay (formerly of ICC; now High Commissioner of Human Rights) • Critique: does not cover child soldiers - Participants at the July 7th Gender Justice Forum organized by Africa Legal Aid; ICTR and the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice (shared by the Cordaid Women and Violence Program)

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