Resolution 1325
In the essay “Nongovernmental organizations role in the Buildup and Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325”, Hill, Aboitiz and Poehlman-Doumbouy raise many topics on the issue of women and children post-conflict situations. In their essay they document the account of numerous meetings held globally that touch on these issues. The Security Council discussed the development, equality, peace and the need for women’s involvement in post- conflict situations. The Women and Armed Conflict Caucus made several recommendations to the the Security Council: to create a report of requirements on the protection of women and girls in conflict and increase the participation of women in all peace keeping efforts, have an an advisor for gender issues on the Security Council and ensure that they include conflicts on all security, peace and gender issues, employ a broader range of nonviolent conflict intervention and prevention with equal parts of men and women, encourage on site trainings on human rights especially in regards to women, and lastly, establish procedures for drawing on the experiences, resources and expertise of people in civil society on the matters of peacekeeping, conflict and security, specifically women’s organizations. It was agreed upon to pursue only two of these recommendations. After that, there were much more enthusiastic efforts to have women’s issues take front and center in the next batch of meetings. The public gallery of the Security Council chamber was filled with women and they were happy to finally have a say on their perspectives of war and peace in that chamber, something that has happened in over forty speeches there. Several member organization have don’t their part in the implementation of Resolution 1325: Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice held hearings in regards to the Japanese military sexual slaver and other various crimes against “comfort women” during World War 2. These crimes include war over women’s bodies and using women’s bodies as war weapons. The NGO Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security did a lot of work to put the Resolution 1325 out into the world. Meetings and training sessions were held to teach people how to implement the resolution. The Resolution went on international alert where over 100,000 signatures were collected from over 140 countries that derived from women, their organizations and civil society groups working on peace including to end the impunity for crimes against women. The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Protection, and Participation Project carried out an assessment in regard to the protection responsibilities of women refugees and other gender equality issues.
