Category: Women Peace and Security
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Women, Peace and Security and the End of the Korean War – what are the lessons?
On the Korean peninsula, women activists, religious groups, domestic and international civil society organisations have been working together for reconciliation for over seven decades to bring about the end of the Korean War. While the guns may have ceased firing 68 years ago, the “war” continues, and today the Korean peninsula continues to be affected…
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WILPF Australia PeaceWomen Awards 2021
To WILPF members, Friends of WILPF and the Wider Community, you are invited to Join the Australian peace and social justice communities online for the WILPF Australia National PeaceWomen Awards on Thursday 20 May at 6.30pm, AEST. Come and join with communities across the country as WILPF Australia presents PeaceWomen Awards to six wonderful women.…
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A Scrutiny of Adelaide Women’s Prison – Thursday 28 January
Join with WILPF SA and make change happen. Hear reports from speakers Tabitha Lean and Aunty Pat Waria-Read about the conditions that women experience in the prison, followed by a discussion of strategies and activities that women’s organisations could carry out to boost improvements for our sisters inside. WILPF SA has been lobbying government for…
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Why the urgency of COVID-19 threatens to silence women
In the best of times, Australian women perform almost double the amount of time on caring duties compared to men. So what happens in today’s difficult times? Yasmin Poole, WILPF’s 2020 Asia Pacific Youth Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, discusses an underlying truth about women that COVID has revealed.…
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WILPF Australia Women, Peace and Security 2020 Webinar Series
WILPF Australia presents this thought-provoking webinar series to build understanding and awareness of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and to help inform discussion and action on how to promote and support women’s meaningful participation in building sustainable peace. (Click the links below to access recordings.) Webinar 1 Women, Peace and Security: Civil Society’s…
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SCR 1325 – 20 years on where are we now?
On 31 October 2000, the first ever resolution on Women, Peace and Security, Security Council Resolution 1325 (SCR 1325), was unanimously adopted by United Nations Security Council.