Hill, Aboitiz, Poehlman-Doumbouya: Resolution 1325
In the article “Nongovernmental Organizations’ Role in the Buildup and Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 by Felicity Hill, Mikele Aboitiz and Sara Poehlman-Doumbouya, the authors explained how the Resolution 1325 was passed on October 31, 2000. First the Security Council passed the Resolution 1325 on 2000 and it addressing women’s issues, the atrocities they faced in war time, and the inability to recognize them as agents of peace. Countless meetings had occurred between women’s organizations, NGOs, the United Nations Development Fund for Women for the successful introduction of the Resolution. Soon the NGo working group gathered a lot of support when arranging in discussions with important delegates from Bangladesh, Canada, China, Macedonia, Netherlands, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (1257). Even Ambassador Chowdhury offered his support for the fundamental role of women in peace efforts. The same year various entities. created the NGO Working Group on Women and International Peace and Security which strongly supported the participation of women in peace contracts and they worked together with UNIFEM too to talk address the action of women.
In the months of July, August, the NGO Working Group advanced significantly with its purpose by holding meetings with members of the Security Council and finally by September and October all the members provided documents for the open session as well as women experts were invited to give speeches and shared their concerns to the open session just to mention a few of them Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika from the Organization of African Unity African’s women’s committee on Peace and Democracy, Luz Mendez from the National Union of Guatemalan Women and more participants representing other worldly organizations. Consequently, women’s roles was taken into account with the help of more than 40 speeches.
In a way the introduction of the Resolution started to make some changes such as the inclusion of women in the discussions about the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Also the Security Council made effort to nominate more women candidates as representatives to the Secretary-General or peace missions. The work of the Security Council improved thanks to the testimonies of diverse women who shared their painful experiences during war time from twelve conflict zones. This helped the ongoing work of women for justice and peace. Finally, these organizations still have a long to go working for women and justice, mainly including them at every level, only in this way the Resolution 1325 will be put into action appropriately, working accordingly with the support of international entities. This was an small step that took a long time to be put in affect.
