There's a great piece in the UK Guardian today profiling Gilberto Gil, dissident, musician, and now minister of culture for Brazil. He is a huge supporter of the
Former Ecuadorean President Lucio Gutierrez, who was ousted by Congress in April and is wanted by the law in Ecuador, said today that he would return home to try to
I was just reflecting on the issue of popularising 1325. I was recently in a workshop in Addis Ababa where we were discussing strategies for popularising the Protocol to the
I have been reading all your posts and wish to thank you for the opportunity to share our knowledge and experince. One of the things that I think we need
I have been rather quiet because am not able to access the blog discussion when I want to. Electricity keeps on going off here in Kampala shutting me off from
It is a rare and gloriously perverse alchemy – unless someone in the Swedish Academy has an even wickeder sense of humour than the awarder of the Nobel peace prize to
After a conflict, disarming individuals and making the land safe again is a hard mission. What happens to small arms, light weapons and landmines is decisive, as the ninth part
Rosemary has been asking me about our rural workshops, so I thought I would share this slightly more detailed account with you of how they work. When we are ready
In the coming weeks, UN agencies, NGOs and the member states interested in 1325 will be involved in a host of formal and informal events. The head of the Dept.
Political tensions in Nicaragua between the president, Enrique Bolanos, and Sandinista leader and former president Daniel Ortega, are seen as a threat to the country’s democracy.
In the last
Women and female fighters offer unique perspectives for peace-building after conflict. The 8th part of the Toolkit discusses how essential these can be to disarmament and achieving sustainable peace.
When UN Security Council resolution 1325 was passed in October 2000, this was the result of many statements, charters, declarations and the like, generally based on a demand for rights:
