GENDER & PEACE KEEPING TRAINING COURSE
DFAIT-MAECI

DFID
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Who you are determines how you are affected. The impact of war and armed conflict varies greatly, depending on the gender of the affected individual. Men, women, boys and girls suffer, contribute and resist differently, according to their gender. Understanding this variance will helps us know how to respond and act.
Module 5: GENDER, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
Goals
  • Participants will know that there is strong grounding in international law for the respect for women's human rights;
  • Participants will understand how IHL and HR laws and standards are relevant to PSOs;
  • Participants will understand that women and men in affected populations may not always respond or react in ways that they will predict (or that peacekeepers would assume are 'normal');
  • Participants will have an understanding of gender-based violence as both a violation of human rights and a reflection of inequality between women and men;
  • Participants will understand that respect for women's human rights has both individual and collectives implications (for their personal behaviour as well as the programmes and policies of their organisation).

Readings

Download Universal Declaration of Human Rights (pdf) [ 73KB ]
Download Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (pdf) [ 111KB ]
Download Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (pdf) [ 81KB ]
Download ICRC Code of Conduct for Combatants (pdf) [ 77KB ]
Download UN Codes of Conduct for Peacekeepers (pdf) [ 1664KB ]
Download Amnesty International Program for Implementing Human Rights in Peacekeeping Operations (pdf) [ 142KB ]
Download Protection of Women in Armed Conflict (pdf) [ 186KB ]


Notes

Download Exercise Notes (pdf) [ 99KB ]
Download Learning Notes (pdf) [ 6KB ]
Download Human Rights Slides (powerpoint) [ 4463KB ]


Handouts

Download What Is International Humanitarian Law? (pdf) [ 122KB ]
Download Sexual Violence (pdf) [ 101KB ]
Download Foca/Zaire/Kosovo Case Studies (pdf) [ 88KB ]


Module 1 - INTRODUCTIONModule 2 - GENDER AND CULTUREModule 3 - WHY GENDER MATTERSModule 4 - GENDER IN THE CONTEXT OF PEACE SUPPORT OPERATIONSModule 5 - GENDER, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAWModule 6 - GENDER AND THE CONFLICT PHASEModule 7 - GENDER AND THE POST-CONFLICT PHASEModule 8 - THE WAY AHEAD
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