Women’s Rights: A Matter of Peace and Stability

Women’s Rights: A Matter of Peace and Stability

Women and girls still suffer excessively from conflicts and the lawlessness of post-conflict environments.

At the same time, women are far too often excluded from playing a role in maintaining, restoring, and defending stability.

NATO’s military authorities have developed guidelines for the integration of gender issues into NATO planning and operations.

Many of the world’s longest and deadliest conflicts – in Congo, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, and elsewhere – occur in regions where women’s rights are often infringed.

As the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has recently written, “[C]ountries that marginalize women often end up unstable.”

To read the full article, please visit The Huffington Post.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010 under E-gender.