Children in Armed Conflict (Open)
Children in Armed Conflict (1989, No. 9) That GWI and its NFAs be urged to express opposition to the exception in Article 38 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which provides that children of 15 can take part in armed conflicts. Back To...
Landmines (1995, No. 19) (Open)
Landmines (1995, No. 19) That NFAs urge their respective governments To participate in the review in September 1995 of the 1980 UN Convention on Conventional Weapons, and support the banning, production, stockpiling, sale, transfer, export and use of anti-personnel landmines; to support the expansion of the UN Register of Weapons Systems to include landmines, until such time as an international convention banning anti-personnel landmines is in place; to support humanitarian landmine clearance and civilian awareness programmes initiated by the UN, individual countries, or organisations such as UNICEF; to encourage research in detection and demining of landmines; to participate in unilateral, bilateral, multilateral and NGO programmes providing assistance to the victims of landmines; to contribute to the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Mine Clearance Activities; to ensure that demining companies which are, or have been, involved in the laying or international transfers of landmines be excluded from receiving public funding for research and funds from the Trust Fund for humanitarian purposes. Back To...
Women’s Participation in the Peacemaking…
Women’s Participation in the Peacemaking Process (1995, No. 18) That NFAs should promote the participation of women in the peacemaking process and conflict resolution by: Monitoring the application of domestic legislation in cases of domestic violence and provocation, in particular any differences in the treatment of men and women by the judicial system and making representation to their governments if necessary. Encouraging and supporting women to specialise in the professional areas of conflict resolution and the politics of peacemaking; urging governments to ensure that , especially in countries where hitherto women have been without a political voice because of particular interpretations of religion which have become customary practice, they include women in diplomatic and multilateral missions concerned with peacemaking, conflict resolution, disarmament and in international tribunals and organisations as part of a regular career pattern. Back To...
Conflict Resolution for Young (Open)
Conflict Resolution for Young Children (2001, No. 13) The 27th Conference of GWI resolves that national federations and associations (NFAs): Inquire what training is given to young children to enable them to understand and resolve conflict without resort to retaliatory acts; recommend to bodies responsible for the allocation of education funding to include appropriate provision for such courses in conflict resolution, including relevant staff development courses for teachers; invite the co-operation of parents’ organizations so as to ensure that the strategies explained to children are consistent across school and home environments; lobby their governments and institutes of research in education and child health to begin medium and long-term evaluation of the benefits or otherwise of teaching conflict resolution strategies to very young children. Back To...
Children in Armed Conflict…
Children in Armed Conflict (2001, No. 10) The 27th Conference resolves: to support the recommendations of the United Nations Report, The Impact of Armed Conflict (#A/51/306, 26 August 1996 – The Machel Report) and the United Nations Security Council Resolution on Children and Armed Conflict (#1262, 25 August 1999); and to recommend to NFAs that they urge their respective governments to take action to implement these recommendations, especially the following: ensure that military personnel, especially those involved in United Nations peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace-building activities, be trained in the protection, rights and welfare of children, and in the relevant body of international law that defines these rights; promote an expansion of special measures to protect children during armed conflict, such as Zones of Peace for children, and humanitarian cease-fires to permit vaccinations and the distribution of humanitarian relief; promote the active participation of children and women in peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction, the importance of which is emphasized in The Machel Report (para. 90, 241-242) and the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 Women, Peace and Security, involving women at the negotiating table; and ensure funding for the basic education of children, in a culture of peace, as a priority of humanitarian assistance in order that children’s education may continue to the extent possible during armed conflict, in refugee and displaced persons camps, and in post-conflict situations, with provision for local, culturally sensitive reintegration into society, including skilled treatment of conflict traumatized child victims. Back To...
