[WCUSP] Fwd: Don't forget 1325!

[Odile Hugonot Haber]

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From: Felicity Hill <flickruby at gmail.com>
Date: Oct 30, 2007 7:03 PM
Subject: Don't forget 1325!
To: WILPF news <wilpf-news at wilpf.ch>


Dear WILPFers,


 Heidi Meinzolt of WILPF Germany has been very active in the German
Women's Security Council - see below and attached with photo for their
1325 anniversary message.


 Felicity


 On the 7th anniversary of UN Security Council resolution 1325, the
German Women Security Council declares:


 It is time to implement 1325


 With 1, 3, 2 and 5 nods in the handkerchief  - which means "don't
forget an important thing" - (see photo attached) the German Women's
Security Council wants to remind that there is still a big lack in
implementing UN Res. 1325. The resolution which requests equal
participation of women on all levels of peace processes was voted
unanimously on the 31 October 2000 by the UN Security Council. In this
tricky 7th year, governments have done even less than the years before
to implement the resolution, says the Women's Security Council.


 Also in the upcoming year, the Women's Security Council sees the
urgency of actions and reactions. One reason is the declaration of the
director of the "European Defence Agency"/EDA, perhaps better called
"European Death Agency" published in German newspapers on October
24th, saying that 2008 should be the "year of armament". Alexander
Weis, former department director in the German Defence ministry, plans
to realize 2 big armament projects with the construction of new
military helicopters and satellites. A plan lacking any democratic
legitimacy or control.


 The Women's Security Council requests that the money foreseen for
these projects should now be shifted to projects for conflict
prevention and the guarantee of equal rights for men and women, in
order to implement UN res.1325 also on the European level. European
activists and politicians of different political backgrounds spoke in
favour of strengthening the resolution in this sense during the
international conference "Roadmap to 1325" in May 2007 in Berlin,
organised by the Heinrich Böll foundation. (further information:
www.frauensicherheitsrat.de)
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