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The campaign is currently focusing on women's rights in Afghanistan twelve years after military intervention in the country.
Women are a prime target in conflict. Yet when it comes to building peace, women are excluded. Launched at the 10th anniversary of a groundbreaking UN resolution that calls for women's inclusion in peacebuilding, our campaign is simple. You can’t build peace leaving half the people out.
Women are potentially vital agents for peacebuilding. Their active involvement is a powerful force for change.
The UK has a key role to play. No women, no peace has created the momentum to move the issue up the public and political agenda. We will call on the UK Government to honour commitments made to women in conflict and continue to report on progress.
take-action
End Violence Against Women in Afghanistan
We are currently running a petition urging Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening and Baroness Warsi, Minister for the Foreign Commonwealth Office to commit cross-departmental resources to tackle violence against women in Afghanistan. Find out more and sign the petition here.
resources
Learn more about women, peace and security:
- Introductory resources
- Afghanistan
- Detailed resources on women, peace and security
- Women human rights defenders
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- No women,no peace. The flyer – an introduction to the campaign - PDF
- No women, no peace. Campaign Briefing - PDF
- GAPS, Parliamentarians guide to Women, Peace and Security - PDF
Campaign Info:
- No women, no peace. A Guide to Supporting Women's Rights Activists in Afghanistan (2011) - PDF
- No women, no peace. Activist Fact sheet (leaflet) - Afghanistan. Print and cut in half to distribute at events. Single version also available here.
- Petition to support Afghan women (PDF)
- Afghan Women's Network. Position Paper: Afghan Women Towards Bonn and Beyond (6 Oct. 2011) - PDF
Papers, Breifings, Reports and Articles:
- ActionAid UK. Policy Briefing. Bonn and Beyond: Negotiating the future of women's rights in Afghanistan (25 Nov 2011)
- Afghan Women's Network. UNSCR 1325 Implementation in Afghanistan (2011)
- Oxfam. Briefing Paper 153, A Place at the Table: Safeguarding Women's Rights in Afghanistan (2011)
- ActionAid UK. Policy Briefing: A just peace? The UK's legacy for women in Afghanistan (2011) - PDF Full resource
- Amnesty International. Afghanistan ten years on: Slow progress and failed promises (2011)
- Orzala Ashrad Nemat. Afghan Women at the Crossroads: Agents of peace - or its victims? A Century Foundation Report (2011) - PDF
- Video. Christian Aid. 'Afghan Women on past gains and future hopes'. The Guardian Global Development (18 Oct. 2011)
- UNAMA, A Long Way to Go: Implementation of the Elimination of Violence Against Women Law in Afghanistan. (Nov 2011)
- UNAMA. Harmful Traditional Practices and Implementation of the Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women in Afghanistan (December 2010) - PDF
- Afghan Women's Network. Thinking Ahead: Finding Ground at Bonn II and Beyond. An Afghan Civil Society Roundtable with Policy makers and Thinkers. (July 30, 2011 Kabul) - PDF
Websites:
- Afghan Women's Network
- Afghanistan Forum (detailing events at the civil society forum in Bonn, Germany on Dec 2-3 2011)
- German Federal Foreign Office page for the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn
- Afghan Analysts Network
Detailed resources on women, peace and security:
UK government documents and action and GAPS responses:
- GAPS, Response to the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (September, 2012) - PDF
- GAPS, Response to FCO initiative on tackling sexual violence as a tactic of war and conflict (May 2012) - PDF
- GAPS, UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security: A year on (Dec 2011) - PDF
- UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (Dec 2010) - PDF
- GAD GAPS recommendations for the BSOS implementation plan - PDF
- GAPS, Bilateral support for women, peace and security in Nepal (2011) - PDF
- GAPS, Narrative report of the DRC focus group on the UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (Oct, 2011) - PDF
- GAPS, Narrative report of the Afghanistan focus group on the UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (Sep, 2011) - PDF
- GAPS, Narrative report of the third civil society focus group on the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (Sep 2011) - PDF
- GAPS, Narrative report of the second civil society focus group on the UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (July 2011) - PDF
- GAPS, Narrative report of the first civil society focus group on the UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (June 2011) - PDF
- UK Building Stability Overseas Strategy (2011) - PDF
- GAPS Consultation response, Strategic Defence and Security Review (September 2010) - PDF
Reports and Articles:
- SAFERWORLD, Strong Voices: Yemeni Women's Political Participation from Protest to Transition (July 2012) - PDF
- GAPS, Putting women's rights into the arms trade treaty (June 2012) - PDF
- GAPS, UNSCR 1325: The Participation Promise (May 2011) - PDF
- Women for Women International, Gender, Conflict and the Millennium Development Goals (Nov 2010) - PDF
- CARE International From Resolution to Reality, Lessons learned from Afghanistan, Nepal and Uganda on women’s participation in peacebuilding and post-conflict governance. (Oct 2010) - PDF
- The Initiative on Quiet Diplomacy, SCR 1325 and Women's Participation: Operational Guidelines for Conflict Resolution and Peace Processes. (Oct 2010) - Full resource - PDF
- GAPS, Global Monitoring Checklist on Women, Peace and Security (June 2009) – Executive summary - PDF
- GAPS, Global Monitoring Checklist on Women, Peace and Security (June 2009) – Full resource - PDF
- GAPS, La liste de monitoring mondiale pour les femmes, la paix et la sécurité: République Démocratique Du Congo (June 2009, Translation 2011) - PDF
- International Crisis Group, Failing to Empower Women Peacebuilders: A Cautionary Tale from Angola (2007)
- NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security Letter Regarding Syria (June 2012) - PDF
UN, International Organisations and Government Documents and Responses:
- UN Women, Progress of the World's Women: In Pursuit of Justice (2011)
- UN Security Council Resolution 1325
- The World Bank. World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development (2011)
Other Documents, Websites, Conferences and Reports:
- University of Warwick. Gendering the Arab Spring workshop video (2011)
- Peace Women overview of National Action Plans on UNSCR 1325
- University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, 2010 Women PeaceMakers Conference: "Precarious Progress: U.N. Resolutions on Women, Peace and Security"
- Women on Transatlantic Security, articles by AtlanticCommunity.org
- Nobel Women's Initiative 2011 conference articles on Open Democracy
- SANWED Islamabad Declaration on the Needs Roles and Rights of Widows (2012)
- APWLD, Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders
- EU, Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders (2008)
- Urgent Action Fund, Insiste, Resiste, Persiste, Existe: Women Human Rights Defenders Security Strategies (2008)
- WHRD International Coalition, List of Materials and Resources for Women Human Rights Defenders
- ISHR, Human Rights Defenders Briefing Papers
- WHRD International Coalition, Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders (2012)
- Jane Barry, Rising up in Response: Women's Rights Activism in Conflict (2005)
- UN, Human Rights Defeners: Protecting the Right to Defend Human Rights
- A Hostile State: On Being a Women Human Rights Defender
