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9 April 2024
Bridging Positions, Building Trust:  Women Peacebuilders & Security Actors

ICAN, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Norway, Sweden, and Canada, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (UKFCDO), the Ministry of Gender, Child and Welfare of South Sudan, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and the National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI), convened a 1.5-day workshop to discuss how to strengthen community security as a localized, transformative approach for sustainable peace.

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25 March 2024
Operational Guidance to Establish and Enhance the Protection of Women Peacebuilders (Arabic)

Stemming from the report, “Protecting Women Peacebuilders: The Front Lines of Sustainable Peace,” this document provides operational guidance for states and multilateral institutions to protect women peacebuilders. This document is also available in English, Farsi, and Turkish.

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5 March 2024
Protecting Women Peacebuilders: The Front Lines of Sustainable Peace (Arabic)

This report distills the range of threats to women peacebuilders, analyzes existing protection mechanisms, and provides guidance to protect women peacebuilders. This report is also available in English, Farsi, French, Spanish, and Turkish. See related operational guidance on how to establish and enhance the protection of women peacebuilders here.

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9 April 2024
Bridging Positions, Building Trust:  Women Peacebuilders & Security Actors

ICAN, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Norway, Sweden, and Canada, the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (UKFCDO), the Ministry of Gender, Child and Welfare of South Sudan, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), and the National Transformational Leadership Institute (NTLI), convened a 1.5-day workshop to discuss how to strengthen community security as a localized, transformative approach for sustainable peace.

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What the Women Say: Militarism & Extremism in the MENA/Asia Region

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

“Challenging Extremism and Militarism: Women Standing up for Rights, Peace and Plurality”  — What the Women Say in the MENA/Asia Region — March, 2015 2014 was a difficult year in the MENA/Asia region. While international policy and media attention gravitated towards the horrors of ISIS/Daesh and other extremist groups, ordinary citizens from Tripoli to Gaza […]

Le monde à la croisée des chemins: les femmes ont les solutions

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

Cette déclaration a été publiée le 11 Novembre 2014, au «Challenging extremism and militarism», 3e édition MENA / Asie Forum sur les droits, la paix et la sécurité des femmes de ICAN lieu dans Şile, Turquie. Nous, soixante femmes représentant treize pays dans le Moyen-Orient, Afrique du Nord et en Asie, avec nos collègues d’Europe […]

العالم يقف أمام مفترق طرق والنساء يملكن الحل

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

اجتمنا هنا، ستون امرأة ممثلات لثلاثة عشر دولة من الشرق الأوسط وشمال افريقيا وآسيا، ومعنا زميلاتنا من أوروبا وأمريكا الشمالية في تركيا لحضور المنتدى السنوي الثالث حول “حقوق المرأة والأمن والسلام” الذي تعقده الشبكة الدولية لعمل المجتمع المدني (أيكان). لدينا كلمة واحدة نوجهها للعالم: كفى. كفى عنفًا، كفى تصديرايديولوجيات عنيفة ليس لها جذور في ثقافاتنا […]

The World at a Crossroads: Women Have the Solutions

Posted on by Lauren Mellows

PRESS RELEASE November 11, 2014 We, sixty women representing thirteen countries spanning the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, together with our colleagues from Europe and North America, gathered together in Turkey at the Third Annual Forum on Women’s Rights, Peace and Security, convened by the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), have one word to […]