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-Primary education project of the Bangladesh Federation of University
women
- Graphic Artwork by Brazilian artist Octavio Roth - Article 1 of the
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights - See Thirty
Articles (© Octavio Roth - (UN/DPI Photo)
- "Displaced Persons: Mother and Child in the Dafur Region of the
Sudans" (© Eskinder Debebe - UN/DPI Photo)
- From Aftershocks:
Art and Memoirs by Young People Growing Up after War and Terror, exhibit
of the United Nations Cyberschool Bus Project, ©
painting by Una Dorbrinic
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Prevention Of Armaments Containing Depleted Uranium: A Human Rights Issue (2007)
Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons And Averting The Weaponization Of Space (2007)
United Nations Peacekeeping (2007)
Women
- Essential to Peace (2004)
Small
Arms and Light Weapons Control (2004)
International
Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers (2001)
Conflict
Resolution for Young Children (2001)
Education
for the promotion of Peace (2001)
Nuclear
Disarmament (1998)
Nuclear
Testing (1995)
Landmines
(1995)
Women's
Participation in the Peacemaking Process (1995)
Peaceful
Resolution of Political Conflict (1994)
Rape
as a War Crime (1994)
Violence
Against Women (1992)
Military
Expenditure (1989)
Peace
(1986)
Nuclear
Arms Freeze (1986)
Women
and Peace (1983)
Politicization
of Conferences (1980)
UN,
Peace and Disarmament (1971)
Student
Unrest (1969)
Support
for the United Nations (1950)
Peace
and Disarmament Committee (1938)
Disarmament
(1932)
Prevention Of Armaments Containing Depleted Uranium: A Human Rights Issue (2007)
The 29th IFUW Conference resolves:
- that the IFUW Board of Officers urge the appropriate United Nations bodies to establish an independent international investigation to establish definitively the short and long-term effects of depleted uranium on human populations and the environment; and,
- that national federations and associations (NFAs) advocate that their respective governments, pending the outcome of such an investigation, prohibit their armed forces from using weaponry containing depleted uranium, and take action in the U.N. to have the use of depleted uranium in armaments declared illegal under the international laws of war and hence liable to prosecution in the International Criminal Court.
Plan of Action
- IFUW Board of Officers to make the necessary interventions as soon as possible to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the U.N. Commission on Disarmament and any other appropriate bodies.
- NFAs to investigate the existing policies and practices of their respective governments on the use of depleted uranium in armaments in order to convey the substantive intent of part 2 of the motion in appropriate terms. Follow-up letters to be sent if no response has been received within two months of the first approach, or if the response is unsatisfactory.
NFAs to report responses to IFUW and this material to be publicized through the advocacy network.
Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons And Averting The Weaponization Of Space
The 29th IFUW Conference resolves: that national federations and associations (NFAs) urge their respective governments to:
- support non-proliferation and disarmament of nuclear weapons;
- collaborate with the international community to ensure that nuclear arms reduction is a primary focus; and
- exercise all possible means to avert the weaponization of space.
Plan of Action
- NFAs must make it a priority to:
- develop a knowledge and understanding of the issues and facts;
- establish dialogue with women’s groups in their immediate communities, their countries and internationally to achieve the commitment of citizens to these policies since it is this that is essential if governments are to take effective action.
- NFAs to urge their respective governments to continue to support nuclear non-proliferation disarmament.
- NFAs to urge their respective government to collaborate with the international community to ensure that nuclear arms reduction is a priority.
- NFAs to urge their respective governments to exercise all possible means to avert the weaponization of space.
United Nations Peacekeeping
The 29th IFUW Conference resolves: that IFUW, through its representatives at the United Nations, argue
- that increased training in sensitivity to gender issues and to women’s and children’s rights be given to all U.N. peacekeeping personnel; and,
- that implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 be strictly enforced, particularly with regard to its directions giving women an enhanced role in peacekeeping contingents.
Plan of Action NFAs to monitor progress throughout IFUW relating to their governments’ reaction to advocacy efforts related to peacekeeping personnel and implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 with regard to its directions giving women an enhanced role in peacekeeping contingents.
Women – Essential to Peace
The 28th conference resolves that:
1. NFAs urge their respective governments to support the implementation
of United Nations Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (2000)
and Resolution 1366 on the Role of the Security Council in the Prevention
of Armed Conflicts, Paragraph 17 (2001);
2. NFAs advocate with their respective governments to provide opportunities
in the conflict resolutions processes to incorporate women’s voices
and representation with a view to:
a) preventing conflict;
b) facilitating an early end to conflict;
c) assisting humanitarian operations and reconstruction processes;
d) protecting women and girls from gender-based violence, and
e) working towards ensuring at least 50 percent of participants in such
processes are
women; and,
3. IFUW urge the UN Secretary General to provide regular reports on the
progress made towards full implementation of Resolution 1325 and Resolution
1366, paragraph 17 that members urge their respective governments to ensure
that they follow the implementation strategies recommended by the Secretary
General. (2004 No.9)
Plan of Action
1. NFAs should urge all members to obtain a copy of “Women, Peace
and Security” from the United Nations or download it from www.peacewomen.org/un/ngo/wg
This study has 79 recommendations.
2. NFAs should distribute this study to their respective governments to
ensure that their respective governments take notice of the resolution.
3. NFAs should encourage their respective governments to review policies
and training for those involved in all aspects of conflict including prevention
and post-conflict processes on the specific effects of war and violence
on women and disaggregate data so that policy decisions can be analysed
for their effect on women.
4. IFUW should request that the UN Secretary General report on the progress
made toward full implementation of Resolution 1325.
Small
Arms and Light Weapons Control
The
28th IFUW Conference resolves:
that National
Federations and Associations (NFAs) strongly urge their respective governments
to: 1. implement
the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate
the Illicit trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (2001);
2. participate actively in the 2005 United Nations Conference on the Illicit
Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, become signatories
to any Codes of Conduct or conventions which are agreed therein and enforce
them in their own territories;
3. consult other governments in their region on the most urgent issues
and the most effective means of control when preparing for the 2005 Conference;
4. work for the strengthening of the 2001 Programme of Action at that
Conference with respect to:
a) the establishment of a Code of Conduct on arms exports, which regulates
the sale of weapons, especially to countries which violate human rights
or international law;
b) the establishment of a UN Convention on the international regulation
of brokering and shipping agents; and,
c) strengthening of security measures at state owned and other armouries;
5. further support measures to counter underlying cultures of violence
and the impacts of armed conflict; and,
6.actively support
measures which empower civil society organizations to promote peaceful
resolution of conflict, including peace education and the role of weapons,
especially amongst young people.(2004 No.8)
Plan of Action
1. NFAs should take urgent action to make their concerns known to their
respective governments regarding the need to strengthen the UN Programme
of Action in 2005.
2. NFAs should make themselves aware of particular problems relating to
their region and highlight these when lobbying their governments.
3. NFAs should develop their own plans to address issues of non-violent
resolution of conflict and of education for peace in accordance with Resolutions
12 and 13 of the 27th IFUW Conference, Ottawa, 2001.
International
Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers
The 27th Conference resolves that national federations and associations
(NFAs) use their influence in international diplomacy to promote international
security through disarmament and lower levels of weapons by:
1. adopting the Framework Convention which is based on the International
Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers, first proposed in May 1997 at the United
Nations by Dr Oscar Arias and other Nobel Peace Laureates, to control
and reduce global weapon sales;
2. encouraging the adoption by all countries of the Nobel Peace Laureates'
proposed International Code of Conduct on Arms Transfers as presented
in the Framework Convention;
3. assisting in other international efforts to reduce the world-wide diffusion
of small arms through programmes currently being developed, such as the
International NGO Action Network on Small Arms, which promotes measures
to control small arms already in circulation and illicit arms.(2001
No.14)
Conflict
Resolution for Young Children
The 27th Conference
of IFUW resolves that national federations and associations (NFAs):
1. inquire what training is given to young children to enable them to
understand and resolve conflict without resort to retaliatory acts;
2. recommend to bodies responsible for the allocation of education funding
to include appropriate provision for such courses in conflict resolution,
including relevant staff development courses for teachers;
3. invite the co-operation of parents' organizations so as to ensure that
the strategies explained to children are consistent across school and
home environments;
4. lobby their
governments and institutes of research in education and child health to
begin medium and long-term evaluation of the benefits or otherwise of
teaching conflict resolution strategies to very young children. (2001
No.13)
Education
for the Promotion of Peace
The 27th Conference
resolves that:
1. National federations and associations (NFAs), in order to ascertain
their most effective past actions, should compile and re-examine the activities
that they have carried out for the promotion of peace during the last
15 years, (especially those activities dealing with education for peace);
2. NFAs interested in these programmes should network to exchange information
on the most effective practices and, if necessary, extend this networking
to other NFAs willing to get involved in peace education; and
3.NFAs work with their governments to ensure that there are comprehensive
programmes that address confict resolution and promote peace incorporated
into the curricula in schools and tertiary institutions. (2001
No.12)
Nuclear
Disarmament
that IFUW and its national federations and associations, especially in
those countries with nuclear weapons capabilities, urge governments to
take action, including through the Conference on Disarmament, to promote
the immediate initiation and conclusion, by the year 2000, or soon thereafter,
of an international convention that sets out a binding timetable for nuclear
disarmament. (1998 No.17)
Nuclear
Testing
in recognition of IFUW's founding principles and history and because of
the effects on the global environment: to oppose continuing nuclear testing,
and requests the Board of Officers to convey its opposition to the President
of the UN Security Council. the president of the UNGA and the chairperson
of the Committee on Disarmament for transmission to delegates negotiating
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. (1995 No.
20)
Landmines
that NFAs
urge their respective governments
1) to participate in the review in September 1995 of the 1980 UN Convention
on Conventional Weapons, and support the banning, production, stockpiling,
sale, transfer, export and use of anti-personnel landmines;
2) to support the expansion of the UN Register of Weapons Systems to include
landmines, until such time as an international convention banning anti-personnel
landmines is in place;
3) to support humanitarian landmine clearance and civilian awareness programmes
initiated by the UN, individual countries, or organisations such as UNICEF;
4) to encourage research in detection and demining of landmines;
5) to participate in unilateral, bilateral, multilateral and NGO programmes
providing assistance to the victims of landmines;
6) to contribute to the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Mine Clearance Activities;
7) to ensure that demining companies which are, or have been, involved
in the laying or international transfers of landmines be excluded from
receiving public funding for research and funds from the Trust Fund for
humanitarian purposes. (1995 No. 19)
Women's
Participation in the Peacemaking Process
that NFAs should promote the participation of women in the peacemaking
process and conflict resolution by:
1)monitoring the application of domestic legislation in cases of domestic
violence and provocation, in particular any differences in the treatment
of men and women by the judicial system and making representation to their
governments if necessary.
2)encouraging and supporting women to specialise in the professional areas
of conflict resolution and the politics of peacemaking;
3)urging governments to ensure that , especially in countries where hitherto
women have been without a political voice because of particular interpretations
of religion which have become customary practice, they include women in
diplomatic and multilateral missions concerned with peacemaking, conflict
resolution, disarmament and in international tribunals and organisations
as part of a regular career pattern. (1995 No.
18)
Peaceful
Resolution of Political Conflict
that NFAs urge their governments to make the peaceful resolution of all
political conflict a priority for action. (1994
No. 6)
Rape
as a War Crime
that IFUW use its influence in the UN to ensure that the use of rape and
enforced pregnancy as strategies of war are fully and properly prosecuted
as war crimes. (1994 No. 5)
Violence
Against Women
to urge NFAs to assume leadership within their own communities to recognise
and address the pervasive and devastating problems of violence against
women as a major obstacle to the goals of the UN Decade for Women; Equality,
Development and Peace (Nairobi Forward Looking Strategies- 1985) and urge
their respective governments to:
-promote legislative and appropriate administrative, social and educational
measures required to protect women from violence in all its forms;
- support the draft resolution, Violence against Women in all its Forms
by the UN Commission on the Status of Women adopted by ECOSOC at its 36th
session, together with the Report of the Secretary General (E/CN.6/1992/L8/Rev
1 18 March 1992); and
-participate with other Member States in the intersessional working group
to further develop a draft declaration on violence against women for report
to CSW at its 37th session. (1992 No. 19)
Military
Expenditure
that NFAs be urged to work to reduce military expenditures and increase
funding for education, sustainable development and human needs. (1989
No. 1)
Peace
to invite NFAs to include efforts in favour of peace among their activities:
a) by encouraging all modes of exchange among people from different nations
and different cultures- correspondence and private visits, news from group
to group, pairings etc.;
b) by pursuing studies related to education for peace (bibliographies,
abstracts, reports on experiences) then disseminating these findings among
IFUW NFAs through appropriate study groups in order to clarify the contents
of the concept and possibly to propose their inclusion in the educational
systems. (1986 No. 6)
Nuclear
Arms Freeze
to recommend that NFAs request their governments to urge all countries
in possession of nuclear arms to agree to a mutually verifiable nuclear
arms freeze as a major step towards nuclear disarmament. (1986
No. 3)
Women
and Peace
to urge members of IFUW to recognise the links between women, influence
and peace, and to develop effective programmes directed towards educating
women in their responsibilities for peace. (1983
No. 5)
Politicization
of Conferences
in view of the fact that one of the aims of the Federation is to encourage
good relations, irrespective of religion, race and political affiliations,
to call upon all its members to make every endeavour to influence their
respective governments to direct their delegates to international conferences
to avoid any undue politicisation of the proceedings and radical departures
from the main topics of such conferences; and to prevent, in so far as
possible, the side-tracking of the matters at issue by the introduction
of extraneous and irrelevant political issues.
(1980 No. 7)
UN,
Peace and Disarmament
reaffirms its support of the UN; urges NFAs through education of their
members and in other appropriate ways,
to influence their governments to co-operate in international programmes
aimed at improving the socio-economic condition of mankind,
to take all necessary measures to resolve national and international conflicts
without recourse to war,
to bring about a reduction of armaments,
to extend the range of international law, and
to strengthen the peacekeeping role of the UN. (1971
No. 11)
Student
Unrest
considering the crisis of youth that has recently affected many countries
in the form of student unrest, the Council resolves, to ask NFAs to undertake
a study of some appropriate topic dealing with student problems, and to
seek the participation of students in this study. (1969
No. 12)
Support
for the United Nations
since the greatest desire of all the members of IFUW is the desire for
peace and since the tragic experiences of the last years have demonstrated
that no one nation alone is strong enough to ensure its own security and
that peace and security for one is possible only within a framework of
peace and security for all, be it resolved that IFUW hereby reaffirms
its loyal support of the UN and urges upon its NFAs the fullest possible
co-operation with this organisation. (1950 No.
14)
Peace
and Disarmament Committee
Peace and Disarmament Committee
It as agreed to reply as follows to the question addressed by this Committee
to its affiliated organisations:
(a) that if the name of the Committee were to be changed, the word "Disarmament"
should be omitted;
(b) material distributed by the Committee should be resumed in a concise
monthly summary of the international situation;
(c) that IFUW would remain on the Committee as an observer;
(d) that the annual donation of IFUW would henceforth be £15. (1938
No. 13)
Disarmament
(a) MORAL DISARMAMENT
having heard with great interest the proposal for a declaration on moral
disarmament, submitted by the UK and US delegations to the Committee on
Moral Disarmament of the Disarmament Conference;
gives its unanimous approval to the declaration and believes that it would
be greatly desirable to include this declaration or a similar text embodying
its principles, in the General Convention on Disarmament; requests NFAs
to study the text and take the steps that they may deem appropriate to
bring it to the notice of the competent authorities of their countries.
(b) Co-operation with the Disarmament Committee of Women's international
Organisations
that IFUW shall continue to be represented by an observer at the meetings
of the Disarmament Committee of the Women's international organisations
at Geneva and that, within the limits determined by the Budget Committee,
that the officers be authorised to increase the sum contributed to the
Disarmament Committee. (1932 No. 3)
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