STATEMENT OF AUSTRALIA, October, 2015

Extract:

Our third pledge recognizes that women, girls and women’s organizations are vital to promoting gender equality in countering terrorism and violent extremism. We will therefore support new research to be conducted by Monash University in Melbourne on preventing conflict and countering fundamentalism through women’s empowerment and civil-society mobilization.

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General Women, Peace and Security

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