Demonstration for the implementation of UNSC resolution 1325
Bedari – a member of Women’s Action for Peace – organized a demonstration for the implementation of an important resolution of the UN Security Council 1325 adopted on October 31, 2000. The demonstration was held near Allied Bank Park in Chkwal City on July 21, 2010.
The resolution 1325 calls upon the member states to:
- Protect women in war and armed conflicts, and
- Ensure the participation of women in any peace efforts including negotiations, and strategies for the repatriation of displaced people.
This demand to implement the resolutions was made in the backdrop of the war on terror, which has displaced millions of people in Pakistan including women and children. The government formulates strategies and policies, has held negotiations with the parties of conflict, and revised its plans and policies on terror, but has seldom included women in the process. It is high time women make a demand to implement this resolution, and make women part of all the consultations and planning for dealing with the war on terror.
WAP is a national network in Pakistan which works on the effective implementation of the United Nation’s Security Council Resolutions 1325 and 180. These resolutions seek from the member states to ensure that women effectively participate in decision making related to peace and are protected from all forms of violence. WAP is a recent initiative taken in Jordan, on January 14-16, 2010, where 20 women from Pakistan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Italy, Canada, Kenya, Uganda, USA and Columbia got together to see how civil society organizations, especially women organizations, can work towards building peace in their respective countries and to push their respective states and governments to implement the said Resolutions.
