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Women, Peace and Security
Pursuant
to the mandate of the
XXXI Assembly of Delegates to support and promote the implementation of UN
Security Council Resolution 1325 in the Hemisphere and the full
participation of women in conflict prevention and peace-building, the CIM, working with the OAS Department for Crisis Prevention and
Special Missions and the program
The
Initiative for Inclusive
Security of
Hunt Alternatives Fund,
has been active in promoting a gender
perspective in matters related to women, peace, and security in the Americas.
Click here for more information on the Second Training Course on Gender,
Conflict and Peace-Building: Central American Region
Final
Report of the First Training Course on Gender, Conflict and
Peace-Building: Andean Region.
Videoconference on Women, Peace and Security
Special Conference on Hemispheric
Security
Commitment of the Member States of the OAS to the
Issue of Women, Peace and Security in the Hemisphere.
Reference Documents
Colombia:
Women's Agenda for Peace
Guatemala:
Compromisos sobre las mujeres contenidos en los Acuerdos de Paz de
Guatemala-Extractos textuales
(Spanish only)
Case Study:
Adding Value: Women’s Contributions to Reintegration and Reconstruction in
El Salvador- Women Waging Peace
Women's Contribution to Peace in Colombia
Event:
Preparing for Peace: The Critical Role of Women in Colombia
Articles:
Women in Reconstruction
(Spanish only) by
Inés Wienberg de Roca, Judge of the High Court, International Tribunals
for ex Yugoslavia and Ruanda
Videoconference on Women, Peace and Security
In July 2003, in preparation for the Special Conference
on Hemispheric Security that took place in Mexico in November 2003,
a Videoconference was held to
examine the integration of a gender perspective in
hemispheric security issues and
analyze women’s contribution to peace and reconstruction
processes in the Hemisphere. Panelists included the Chair of the
Committee on Hemispheric Security of the Permanent Council of the OAS and
representatives of women’s organizations working on peace-building in
Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. The videoconference
was transmitted simultaneously from Bogotá, Managua, San Salvador,
Cambridge, and Washington D.C and was broadcast on the Internet via the
OAS web site.
Conclusions and Recommendations of the Videoconference on Women, Peace and
Security in the Hemisphere
Program
Presentations
Hemispheric Security Committee:
Presentation by Ambassador Miguel
Ruiz-Cabañas, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the OAS and
President of the
Hemispheric Security Committee
(Spanish only)
Colombia:
Presentation
by Marta Eugenia Segura, Executive Director of the Colombian
Confederation of NGOs (CCONG)(Spanish
only)
El Salvador:
"Una
mirada de las mujeres al pos conflicto en El Salvador"
Presentation by Gloria Guzmán, Director, Association of Women for Dignity and Life,
"Las Dignas"
(Spanish only)
Guatemala:
"Experiencias de
participación de las mujeres
en el proceso de paz en Guatemala" Presentation by
Luz Méndez,President of the Advisory Council of the National Union of
Guatemalan Women (UNAMG)
(Spanish only)
Nicaragua:
Presentation by Edelma Gómez Blanco,
Coordinator of the OAS Rural Judicial Facilitators Program.
Special Conference on Hemispheric Security
CIM and Women Waging Peace also worked with the
OAS Committee on
Hemispheric Security and the member states to include, in the
Declaration of the Special Conference on Hemispheric Security, a
paragraph reaffirming the importance of enhancing the participation
of women in all efforts to promote peace and security, and the need to
increase women’s decision-making role at all levels in relation to
conflict prevention, management, and resolution and to integrate a gender
perspective in all policies, programs, and activities of all
inter-American organs, agencies, entities, conferences and processes that
deal with matters of hemisphere security.
Reference Documents
Colombia:
Women's Agenda for Peace
Guatemala:
Compromisos sobre las mujeres contenidos en los Acuerdos de Paz de
Guatemala-Extractos textuales
(Spanish only)
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