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IWTC WOMEN’S GLOBALNET
#352 ACTIVITIES & INITIATIVES OF
WOMEN WORLDWIDE AT INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM IN
LIBERIA GOVERNMENTS CALLED TO ACT ON SCR 1325, WOMEN, PEACE &
SECURITY March 18, 2009 Mavic Cabrera Balleza |
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1. CALL TO ACTION ON UNSCR 1325 2. Recommendations
from the 1325 thematic sessions & break-out groups 3. Liberia
Launches its 1325 National Action Plan 4. Women
Peace Builders’ Community of Practice Meets at the Colloquium |
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1. CALL TO ACTION ON UNSCR 1325 A Call to Action on UNSCR 1325 on Women
Peace and Security was adopted at the culminating event of the
International Colloquium on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership Development and
International Peace and Security held in Monrovia, Liberia on March 9-10,
2009. Co-convened by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
of Liberia and President Tarja Halonen
of Finland (see IWTC’s Women’s Globalnet #349 and
#350), the colloquium brought together more than 1,000 participants,
including heads of state and high-level government officials, youth,
academics, NGOs, representatives of the UN and other intergovernmental
organizations. The Call to Action sets forth recommendations intended to
accelerate UNSCR 1325 implementation and uses the 2010 Ministerial Review
Conference of Resolution 1325 as its time frame for accountability and
action. Key recommendations include: On Peace
Keeping Operations
On
Disarmament, Demobilization, Reintegration, Resettlement and Repatriation
On
National Level Implementation of UNSCR 1325
On Women
at the Peace Table
On the UN
Secretary-General’s Reports
The
Colloquium participants mandated President Halonen
and President Sirleaf to call on the UN Security
Council, the President of the UN General Assembly and the UN Secretary
General to:
The full
copy of the Call to Action on UNSCR 1325 is available here: [English] [French] [Spanish] 2. Recommendations
from the 1325 thematic sessions and break-out groups Complementing
the official 1325 Call for Action, are recommendations emerging from the 1325
thematic sessions and break out groups which include the following:
3. Liberia
Launches its 1325 National Action Plan On March
9, President Sirleaf officially launched the UNSCR
1325 National Action Plan for Liberia. More than seven months in the making,
a Steering Committee chaired by the Ministry of Gender, UN-INSTRAW and UNMIL
Office of the Gender Adviser and representatives from other governmental
institutions, UN agencies and civil society organizations led the drafting of
the plan. The Liberian National Action
Plan on UNSCR 1325 also incorporates some of the components of UNSCR 1820 on
sexual violence. To find
out more about the Liberian national action plan, go to: http://www.un-instraw.org/en/gps/general/implementing-resolution-1325-in-liberia.html 4. Women
Peace Builders’ Community of Practice Meets at the Colloquium Women’s groups
from Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Liberia, the
Netherlands, Uganda and Zimbabwe met in Liberia on March 9, 2009 to form the
Women Peace Builders’ Community of Practice (WPBCoP). The WPBCoP brings together women’s groups and NGOs working
towards the full and effective implementation of UNSCRs 1325 and 1820. It
aims to unite the initiatives and engagements of women’s peace advocacy
groups and find synergy in their initiatives so as to increase their
outreach, accentuate the multiplier effect and enhance their collective
impact. The WPBCoP discussed a number of issues including its
structure, involvement of men, the responsibilities of the coordinators,
funding, communication and collective action on the 10th anniversary of Resolution
1325. The meeting participants all agreed that the WPBCoP
will have a light structure with only one coordinator or focal point at the
international, regional and country levels and that the work of each
coordinator should build on what their respective organizations are already doing. They also emphasized that members of
the WPBCoP should be supporting each other with
regards to fundraising. They noted that scarce funding has resulted into
competition among women’s organizations and NGOs. The meeting
participants agreed on the broad plan of collective lobbying during the UN
High-Level Ministerial Review Conference of Resolution 1325 in October 2010. For
additional information on the Women Peace Builders’ Community of Practice,
contact: Mavic Cabrera-Balleza at: mavic@iwtc.org |
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