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
