OSCE/Jens Eschenbaecher
Human Rights
more directly the potential violence, including
rape, which women and girls may face in these
situations.
Since 2005, ODIHR’s Human Rights, Women
and Security programme has been developing
activities to support national-level implementation of UNSCR 1325 by establishing national
networks, identifying priorities and producing practical resources to assist participating
States. In 2008, ODIHR continued to attend
and promote activities aimed at increasing
awareness of UNSCR 1325 and supporting follow-up efforts.
In line with the programme’s objective
of integrating a gender perspective into the
work of relevant security sector actors, in
March ODIHR published the Toolkit on Gender and Security Sector Reform, in partnership
with DCAF and the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the
Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW).
The Toolkit addresses a broad pool of security-
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sector institutions, including the armed forces,
police and national parliaments, as well as providing insight into gender issues in the context of national security policy-making, justice
reform and border management. It considers
gender training for security-sector personnel
and security-sector reform assessment, monitoring and evaluation with regard to gender.
A diverse audience, including national civil
society and regional intergovernmental organizations, and representatives of participating
States and OSCE field missions attended the
launch of the Toolkit in October in Warsaw,
co-convened with the Permanent Delegation of
Sweden to the OSCE.
VII. Ad-hoc response to conflict
Georgia
In September, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office
asked ODIHR and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) to
Members of ODIHR’s human
rights assessment team visit a
village that was destroyed during
the conflict in Georgia, October
2008.
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