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Missões de Paz: Painel da ONU é encerrado com debate sobre

questão de gênero

RESDAL participates at the International Forum “Women, Peace and Security: challenges to progress with

United Nations Resolution 1325

in Guatemala”

Organized by the Alliance for the Strengthening and Empowerment of Women, aiming to promote an exchange of experiences regarding national level implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1325 and post-1325.

RESDAL in CEPAL

STATEMENT

AGREEMENTS

Security Council

Open Debate on

WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY

“DISPLACED WOMEN AND GIRLS: LEADERS AND SURVIVORS”

28 October 2014

SYRIAN REFUGEES IN URUGUAY

Following step by step the Uruguayan project of welcoming 120 Syrian refugees from Lebanon to Uruguay

There is no direct correlation between poverty and violence, as researchers Matthew Budd and Marcela Donadio, members of the organisation Security and Defence Network of Latin America, point out in an article published along with a report in Americas Quaterly, the magazine of AS/COA.

Between June 10th and 13th the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict was held in London, where a RESDAL representative was in attendance as part of the largest event to be held on the subject. Co-chaired by Foreign Secretary of the British Government, William Hague, and Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie, it brought together representatives and officials from all regions across the globe in an effort to further momentum to combat this widespread yet often invisible phenomenon.

With security passes in hand and accompanied by the UNIFIL Gender Officer, the RESDAL team passed through the military checkpoint into the militarized zone in the south of Lebanon on the way to Naqoura – UNIFIL headquarters. Given the tensions and sensitivities of the area, no access is permitted to foreigners without prior clearance of the Lebanese Armed Forces, while RESDAL is the first organisation from Latin America to be granted authorisation for such a visit to UNIFIL.

The Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender - Based Violence Crimes –

International Criminal Court

Analysis

Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes

The General Recommendation No. 30

on Women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations.

Analysis

CEDAW Nro.30

Recommendations for the UN peacekeeping revision process.

Fifteen years after Resolution 1325 was adopted in 2000, to what extent has it been integrated into peacekeeping operations?

What approach has been developed for the military component? What achievements and pending challenges have been found in the implementation of this Resolution in the area of military and police tasks?

Moreover, what role does the approach on women, peace and security have in the peacekeeping review process?

Peace Operations: Views from the South

15 Years on from Resolution 1325

Internacional Conference - Santiago de Chile - December, 9

But Reque Teran is the first woman in Latin America to directly command combat troops, says Marcela Donadio, an expert who heads the Latin American Security and Defense Network (RESDAL), a Buenos Aires-based think tank.

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