Tool 7: Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector and Gender Endnotes 1. OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (2018) “Gender balance report: Taking urgent action in the OSCE region to end gender-based violence”, Berlin: OSCE, p. 10. 2. ECOSOC (1997) “Agreed conclusions 1997/2”, http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/pdf/ECOSOCAC1997.2.PDF. 3. UN Women (2019) “Gender equality glossary”, https://trainingcentre.unwomen.org/mod/glossary/view.php?id=36 (accessed 29 January 2019). 4. Inter-Parliamentary Union (2011) Gender-Sensitive Parliaments: A Global Review of Good Practice, Geneva: IPU. 5. For example, resolutions of the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly, https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ Issues/Discrimination/Pages/LGBTUNResolutions.aspx (accessed 26 March 2019); the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 1995 Ottawa Declaration called upon participating States “to ensure that all persons belonging to different segments of their populations be accorded equal respect and consideration in their constitutions, legislation and administration and that there be no subordination, explicit or implied, on the basis of … sexual orientation”; European Union (2013) “Guidelines to promote and protect the enjoyment of all human rights by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons”. 6. In Lebanon, for instance, while homosexuality is not explicitly outlawed, elements of the Penal Code criminalize same-sex intercourse. This deters LGBTI people from reporting rape for fear of prosecution and incarceration. L. Khattab and H. Myrttinen (2014) “Gender, security and SSR in Lebanon”, Beirut: International Alert. 7. S. Lunn (2010) “The democratic control of armed forces in principle and practice”, in H. Born, P. Fluri and S. Lunn (eds) The Relevance of Parliamentary Oversight for the Security Sector, Geneva: DCAF, p. 24. 8. EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (2017) Surveillance by Intelligence Services: Fundamental Rights, Safeguards and Remedies in the EU. Volume II: Field Perspectives and Legal Update, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, p. 65. 9. IPU and UNDP (2017) “Global parliamentary report 2017 – Parliamentary oversight: Parliament’s power to hold government to account”, Tignieu-Jameyzieu: Courand et Associés, p. 15. 10. IPU (2019) “Women in national parliaments”, 1 April, https://data.ipu.org/women-ranking?month=4&year=2019. 11. IPU (2007) “Women in national parliaments”, 30 April, http://archive.ipu.org/wmn-e/arc/world300407.htm. 17