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Women with disabilities in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security

Despite progress made through a series of United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCR), beginning with the groundbreaking UNSCR 1325 in 2000, to give women a place at the table in post-conflict peace building and reconciliation, women with disabilities are missing and ignored and have not had a role in these processes. Women with disabilities are excluded both in practice and formally, through the various United Nations (U.N.) resolutions and policy documents, including the UNSCR 1325 Indicators and the UNSCR 1325 National Action Plans, which each country is to

In my most recent law review article, "Who's Missing? Women with Disabilities In U.N. Security Council resolution 1325 National Action Plans," 18 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. 395 (Spring 2012), I review some of these 1325 National Action Plans to ascertain if women with disabilities are included, which seems to happen infrequently, and also set forth some factors that may explain this exclusion, and describe guidelines for the inclusion of women with disabilities in such plans.

This article is posted on the Women Enabled website under "Recent

Additionally, Women Enabled, Inc. is reviewing all such UNSCR 1325 National Action Plans as several new plans have been posted since this article was submitted for I will soon share a list of plans we are currently reviewing to gather your thoughts with respect to the countries in which you live and/or work with respect to this issue and to see if your organization was contacted as the plan was being Hopefully, we can all work together to ensure that the ideas of women and girls with disabilities are represented as these plans are drafted and, most importantly, implemented!

I have also written other law review articles and papers on the inclusion of women and girls with disabilities in conflict and post-conflict situations and These include the following, which are also on my website and my Social Science Research Network page:

-Stephanie Ortoleva, "Right Now! - Women with Disabilities Build Peace Post-Conflict," Center for Women's Policy Studies, Barbara Waxman Fiduccia Papers, April 2011, http://www.centerwomenpolicy.org/programs/waxmanfiduccia/documents/BFWFP_RightNow_WomenwithDisabilitiesBuildPeacePost-Conflict_StephanieOrtoleva.pdf

-Stephanie Ortoleva, "The Forgotten Peace Women with Disabilities," Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, 33 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L.Rev. 83 (2010.)

Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions at Stephanieortoleva@gmail.com and Womenenabled@gmail.com

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Source: Stephanie Ortoleva, Esq. Founder and President, WomenEnabled
When: 26/12/2012

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