How Are Women’s Rights Movements Responding in Conflict Zones?
March 5, 2008
Women in Conflict Zones—Why Are Governments Failing and How Are Women’s Rights Movements Responding? (February 27, 2008)
Women and children are often the intended and unintended casualties of conflict, and forgotten in the post-conflict transitional stages. Thousands of nongovernmental organization representatives from around the world came together for the UN Commission on the Status of Women from February 25 to March 7, 2008 to advocate on the topic of “Women’s Equal Participation in Conflict Prevention, Management and Conflict Resolution and in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding.”
Open Society recently hosted leading nongovernmental organization panelists for a discussion of their cutting-edge work addressing violence against women in conflict and post-conflict zones, their challenges, and where they see governments failing.
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