Background
The Security Council noted the 'need to consolidate data on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls' in its October 2000 resolution on Women, Peace and Security.
To try to address the lack of consolidated and accessible information, UNIFEM has created this portal, which is very much a work in progress. We have only begun to create a centralized repository of information from a wide variety of sources, with links to reports and data from the UN system, and also from experts, academics, NGOs and media sources. And we have only begun to do this with resources in English.
Purpose
Our inital aim is to track progress on the implementation of resolution 1325, and ultimately to provide information to encourage researchers, policy makers, analysts and NGOs so they can routinely include, seek and contribute more information and analysis on women, war and peace.
Through this portal, UNIFEM strives to provide access to the information and analysis that is currently available on the impact of armed conflict on women and women's role in peace-building. We do our best to ascertain the legitimacy of the sources of that information and analysis. Where there are conflicting perspectives, we strive to present a variety thereof so that users can make their own judgement regarding the accuracy of the information.
The absence of formal approaches to collecting and analyzing information on women in conflict in response to resolution 1325 means that gender issues are not systematically addressed in political and preventive actions and post-conflict peace building. This is reflected, for example, in Security Council discussions and in reports of the Secretary General where attention to specific gender issues in individual countries is still lacking. This is not due to deliberate neglect, but to the enormity of the gender mainstreaming task that the United Nations has set for itself.The information presented on the portal is broadly divided into two areas: Issue Briefs and Country Profiles. The content of the portal is also supported by a robust 1325 Toolbox which contains commentary, tools, and analysis related to SC resolution 1325 from 2000 to today.
The Security Council noted the 'need to consolidate data on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls' in its October 2000 resolution on Women, Peace and Security.
To try to address the lack of consolidated and accessible information, UNIFEM has created this portal, which is very much a work in progress. We have only begun to create a centralized repository of information from a wide variety of sources, with links to reports and data from the UN system, and also from experts, academics, NGOs and media sources. And we have only begun to do this with resources in English.
Purpose
Our inital aim is to track progress on the implementation of resolution 1325, and ultimately to provide information to encourage researchers, policy makers, analysts and NGOs so they can routinely include, seek and contribute more information and analysis on women, war and peace.
Through this portal, UNIFEM strives to provide access to the information and analysis that is currently available on the impact of armed conflict on women and women's role in peace-building. We do our best to ascertain the legitimacy of the sources of that information and analysis. Where there are conflicting perspectives, we strive to present a variety thereof so that users can make their own judgement regarding the accuracy of the information.
The absence of formal approaches to collecting and analyzing information on women in conflict in response to resolution 1325 means that gender issues are not systematically addressed in political and preventive actions and post-conflict peace building. This is reflected, for example, in Security Council discussions and in reports of the Secretary General where attention to specific gender issues in individual countries is still lacking. This is not due to deliberate neglect, but to the enormity of the gender mainstreaming task that the United Nations has set for itself.The information presented on the portal is broadly divided into two areas: Issue Briefs and Country Profiles. The content of the portal is also supported by a robust 1325 Toolbox which contains commentary, tools, and analysis related to SC resolution 1325 from 2000 to today.
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