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Peace Processes

Representation/Participation


Representation/Participation is a sub-theme of Peace Processes and relates to women's Representation/Participation in Peace Processes. This sub-theme is closely related the sub-theme Peace Processes within the theme: Participation.

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  • May 6, 2013 (The Guardian Nigeria)
    INTERNATIONAL: Global Forum Tasks Women On Empowerment, Maximizing Potentials SOCIO-POLITICAL and economic advancement of women could mostly be achieved in the shortest- possible time if the global community shows appreciation of the capacity of women. That, experts say, would widen the network of women and build their capacity to do great things.
  • May 3, 2013 (the wip)
    COLOMBIA: "No Justice? No Peace!" The Women Absent from Colombia's Peace Talks “No Justice? No Peace!” Never has this chant, which I have heard so often at anti-war rallies, felt so real to me as during the last few months observing the ongoing peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas. The talks began in October of last year in Oslo, Norway and have continued in Havana ever since. “No Justice? No Peace!” Never has this belief been more real to women peace activists in Colombia, who, despite the fact that not a single woman is at the negotiating table in Havana, are insisting on justice for achieving real and lasting peace in Colombia. Women peace activists in Colombia are putting their demands for peace into action through grassroots justice initiatives.
  • April 9, 2013 (Daily News Egypt)
    MALI: Resolution 1325 and the Need to Empower Malian Women Since the beginning of January 2012, an insurgent group has been fighting with the Mali government for the independence of northern Mali, an area known as Azawad. This group, formally known as National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and also referred to as Tuareg nationalists, joined forces with Islamist rebels. By using their combined forces, they gained control of northern Mali in the spring 2012.
  • March 30, 2013 (AllAfrica)
    WESTERN SAHARA: President of Republic Describes As 'Shameful Act' Recent Aggression on Saharawi Women in Occupied El Aaiun The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz described the recent aggression against a group of Saharawi women, who were peacefully demonstrating at occupied El Aaiun's streets, as the "shameful act" which does not honour Morocco nor its authentic people, in an open letter sent Saturday to the Moroccan King.
  • March 21, 2013 (Hivos People Unlimited)
    New Hivos Partner: Syrian Women's Forum for Peace Hivos welcomes the establishment of the Syrian Women's Forum for Peace (SWFP), which aims to strengthen the role of Syrian women in forging peace in Syria and push Syrian and international public opinion to ensure that decision-makers adopt peaceful means in building a democratic state in Syria.

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