GSP Recommends: Issue 49
Featured Image: Protests in Poland against the Abortion Ban. Source: Twitter / @Tabagari
GSP Recommends is a weekly round up of news, reports, recommended readings, videos and podcasts from our desk to yours. If you think something should be up here but isn't, do write to us on info@gendersecurityproject.com with your recommendation and we will make sure to review it, engage with it, and add it up to one of our forthcoming lists.
On our desk
Women, Peace, and Security: This Is How We Win (Read) Online Violence - The New Front Line for Women Journalists (Read) Guterres to Security Council: Women leaders ‘essential to peace and progress for all’ (Read) Women the ‘driving force’ for peacebuilding in Colombia: Deputy UN chief (Read)
UN: 20 Years After Landmark UN Resolution, Women Still Excluded in Peace Processes (Read)
Q&A: COVID-19 has Pushed Women Peacebuilders from Key Leadership Roles (Read) It’s Been Three Years Since #MeToo. What’s Changed? What Needs to Change? (Read) Putting the individual first: The importance of survivor-centred approaches when responding to sexual violence in conflict (Read) Forcing Women into Debt Is a Form of Economic Domestic Abuse (Read) African Women Led Landmark Peace Push - What Now 20 Years Later? (Read) Calling for More Women Officers in Peacekeeping Operations, Force Leaders Briefing Security Council Stress Gender Balance Key for Effective Policing, Building Trust (Read) A backlash against the Women, Peace and Security agenda? (Read)
Reports and Studies Research reveals gender inequality among diplomatic corps (Read) Normative Encounters between the ‘Global’ and the ‘Local’: Women, Peace and Security in Mali and Rwanda (Read) Rural Women and Girls: 25 years after Beijing – Critical Agents of Positive Change (Read) Integration of Gender Equality Principles & Practices in National Climate Change Actions - Study of 196 Countries (Read) ACCORD highlights the urgency of increasing women’s participation in mediation 20 years after UNSCR 1325 (Read) LGBT+ people are often invisible in conflict responses organised along binary conceptions of gender (Read) News from around the world Australia - Violence Against Women & Mental Health (Read) Indonesia - Women, Home & The Pandemic (Read) Indonesia - Women share immense stake in ending armed violence (Read) MENA Region - Unequal Gender Relations & Subordination of Women: What COVID-19 Has Taught Us (Read) New Zealand Names Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence (Read) Rwanda - Women, peace and security in Rwanda – promises and pitfalls (Read) Somalia, UN laud role of women in peace building (Read) South Sudan: Special Representative Patten welcomes the conviction of perpetrators of sexual violence in Yei, Central Equatoria, marking a step forward in the fight against impunity (Read) The Philippines - BWC launches Bangsamoro Regional Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security (Read) Tunisia - Male survivors of sexual assault determined to speak out despite risks (Read) UN defeats Russia resolution promoting women at peace tables (Read) Western Equatoria - Transforming hope into reality: Yambio women discuss ways to implement provisions for 35 percent women's representation in all levels of governance (Read)