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
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