Drawing further on the Global Study, Nyakujarah noted that only 9 per cent of peace negotiators are women, while only 3 per cent of personnel in UN peace missions are women, who serve mostly in support roles. Nyakujarah highlighted that increasing the number of women judges and other front-line justice sector officials can create more conducive environments for women in courts and make a difference to outcomes in sexual violence cases. the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. The presentation examined the implementation of UNSC Resolution 1325, the first formal and legal Security Council document that requires parties to conflict to prevent violations of women’s rights, to support women’s participation in peace negotiations and post-conflict reconstruction, and to protect women from sexual and genderbased violence, as well as subsequent resolutions related to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. Nyakujarah focused on the key findings of the 2015 Global Study commissioned by then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Preventing conflict, Transforming justice, Securing the peace: A Global Study on implementation of UNSCR 1325. The report confirms what is already widely known – that there is progress in implementing the resolution, but that progress is painstakingly slow. Other highlights from the report noted by Nyakujarah, include the UN secretary general’s appointment of a Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, that peace agreements that have reference to women have increased from 11 per cent to 27 per cent, that there is an international roster of experts to support the investigation into international crimes, and that monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are in place to report on sexual and gender-based Violence. Nyakujarah however emphasised that there are few actual prosecutions of SGBV cases at national level. roles. Nyakujarah highlighted that increasing the number of women judges and other front-line justice sector officials can create more conducive environments for women in courts and make a difference to outcomes in sexual violence cases. To emphasise this point, she noted that from 1993 to 2004, in every case before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia resulting in redress for sexual violence crimes, there were women judges on the bench. Criminal justice alone cannot bring about the social transformation required to ensure that violations do not occur again. Post-conflict justice must also include transformative truth-seeking, reparations, institutional reform and memorialisation, which seek to recognise and address underlying gender inequalities. In conclusion, Nyakujarah highlighted that criminal justice alone cannot bring about the social transformation required to ensure violations do not occur again. Post-conflict justice must also include transformative truth seeking, reparations, institutional reform and memorialisation, which seek to recognise and address underlying gender inequalities. Drawing further on the Global Study, Nyakujarah noted that only 9 per cent of peace negotiators are women while only 3% of personnel in UN peace missions are women who serve mostly in support 4\ Accountability for conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence: Successes, challenges, narratives, and omissions

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