Peacekeeping Watch is a project focused on monitoring sexual exploitation and abuse by UN Peacekeepers, and documenting efforts to address such abuse. In the past decade, accounts have surfaced of violations committed by peacekeepers against civilians, in a particular women and girls, during UN peacekeeping operations.

Resolution Watch is a resource developed by the PeaceWomen Project in order to highlight the language on women and gender issues that has been adopted specifically in the Security Council’s resolutions addressing all current and upcoming peacekeeping operations.

As part of its overall mandate, the UN's Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations (C-34) has included reporting on gender issues in its "Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects.”

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African Union: Forum seeks female peacekeeping troops to protect women in conflict
June 23, 2008 - (Afriquenligne) African women leaders on Sunday vowed to press for the deployment of more female peace-keepers to protect women in conflict and called on the African Union (AU) to appoint more female peace envoys.

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Women Targeted or Affected by Armed Conflict: What Role for Military Peacekeepers?
Conference Summary, UNIFEM 2008
This conference reviewed current peacekeeping practice in the prevention of widespread and systematic sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict contexts, with a view to identifying existing efforts to prevent the targeting of women and children for sexual violence within current peacekeeping approaches to civilian protection; and building a policy consensus on sexual violence as a security issue backed by mandates, means, training and incentives for effective response.

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