Women, Peace and Security – Negotiating in Women's Best Interests

Manjoo, Rashida

doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12313

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UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict

Nadj

2019

The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime

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Mali, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Myanmar, Burundi, Uganda, Libya, the Ivory Coast, and South Sudan have one sad footnote in common: they are sites of recent armed conflict characterized by sustained sexual violence attacks against women. Increasingly, paramilitary fighters, nonstate actors, perpetrate sexual violence offenses. Even those who are meant to protect civilians, such as UN peacekeepers, have engaged in acts of violence. Recent examples brought to the attention of the world media include attacks by UN peacekeepers against girls as young as 12 years old in the Central African Republic. In response to this alarming trend, the UN has promulgated a series of groundbreaking resolutions condemning conflict‐related sexual violence offenses since the turn of the millennium. To date, eight UN Security Council resolutions have called for a greater inclusion of women at the peace negotiation table and in post‐conflict demobilization efforts, urging states to implement national action plans to give effect to these objectives. However, despite the UN's efforts to address wartime sexual violence, there remains a stark discrepancy between the political action and the reality on the ground, where conflict‐related sexual violence continues to be pervasive.

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