SC 1820 a determination to make it work!
Written by indai on September 22nd, 2009
This is the second day of the strategy meeting on SC 1820 – addressing sexual violence in conflict… the saga continues towards the implementation of this much received resolution as it did focus in what is lacking in the broad mandate of SC 1325.. the work of women on the ground and the challenges in addressing sexual violence has been long said by a number of women’s organizations working in conflict situations…now that the Security Council has taken on this issue seriously there is a renewed commitment and energy towards the SC 1820… the SRSG post in now going to be tabled and eventually pass… its mandate and focus on sexual violence in conflict is a much needed focus in an issue that can be extended to make peacebuilding process accountable to work on the issue…the mandate of sexual violence can broaden the discourse to include peace and security which after all is very much inter-linked with sexual and gender based violence … the resolution evolves to now another discussion known as 1820 +1 … we can go all the way to plus 3 the important thing is that we are celebrating the attention for so long denied on sexual violence and hopefully this can evolve the way the children in conflict garnered .. complete with the reporting mechanisms to the security council…Indai