From the United Nations News Centre:
United Nations Security Council calls for ensuring women’s participation in building, sustaining peace.
Adopted on 31 October 2000, resolution 1325 marked the culmination of years of concerted appeals and efforts, especially by civil society and women’s organizations, to draw attention to and seek action to reverse the egregious and inhumane treatment of women and girls, the denial of their human rights and their exclusion from decision-making in situations of armed conflict.
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Posted by the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations.
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