Invite :: UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
- Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) -

New Delhi 18, November, 2010:

PRESS INVITE
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and the Arms Trade Treaty
Organised by Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) &
Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament (CIPOD)
School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Friday 19 November 2010
at Committee Room No 1, School of International Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
from 11 am to 2 pm

New Delhi 18, November, 2010: The United Nation Security Council Resolution 1325 was passed unanimously on 31 October 2000. It is the first resolution ever passed by the UN Security Council that specifically addresses the impact of war on women, and it stresses the importance of women's equal participation and full involvement in all efforts to maintain and promote sustainable peace and security.

A decade after the resolution was unanimously adopted women and women’s rights activists across the globe are assessing the level of its implementation, celebrating successes, exchanging ideas and pointing out the challenges, gaps as well as the long road that still lies ahead.

There are an estimated 875 million small arms under circulation in the world today, one for nearly every 12 people on the planet. The United Nations estimate that 300,000 people are killed each year due to small arms. India alone, 12 people die from armed violence every day. A thousand people die every day because of armed violence, and many more are seriously injured. And it was found in various surveys that of the 90 percent of the people killed in armed conflict by small arms, a staggering 80 percent are women and children. The arms industry is unlike any other. It operates without regulation. There is more regulation in music and film industry than in arms

Women are increasingly paying a heavy price for unregulated multi-bullion dollar trade in small arms. Large numbers of women suffer directly or indirectly from armed violence. Women are particularly at risk of certain crimes because of their gender. An attack with a gun is 12 times more likely to end in death than an attack with any other weapon[1].

When violence against women involves the use of weapons specifically designed to cause injury and death and which can fire bullets at high speed from a distance, the risk to women's lives increases dramatically. Guns affect women's lives when they are not directly in firing line. Women become the main breadwinners and primary carers when male relatives are killed, injured or disabled by gun violence. Women are displaced and forced to flee their homes for an uncertain future. They face starvation and disease as they struggle to fend for their families.

On Friday, 19 November, 2010 Manipur Gun Women Survivor Network, Control Arms Foundation of India in collaboration Centre for Politics, Organization, and Disarmament, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University is organizing a Panel Discussion on the “United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and Arms Trade Treaty” at Committee Room No 1, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067

The purpose of the discussion is to examine all these important linkages of gender and Arms Trade Treaty and to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. The discussion with the experts will also find ways to create awareness of the deadly trade in arms which is a huge threat to human security, especially women and children which operates without any global binding international regulations and to call upon the Government of India to support the ongoing process for an international Arms Trade Treaty to make it happen by 2012.

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and Arms Trade Treaty

Time: 11 am to 1 pm (Please join us for tea at 10.30 am)
Date: Friday, 19 November 2010
Venue: Committee Room No 1, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi 110067

Organized by
Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI) &
Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament (CIPOD)
School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Noted panelists include

Dr Anuradha Reddy, Joint Director, DRDO
Ms Sangeeta Thapa, UNIFEM
Mr Ravinder Pal Singh, Security Analyst
Dr Swaran Singh, Professor of Diplomacy and Disarmament, JNU
Lt General (Dr) B S Malik, President CAFI
Ms Tejal Chandan, Research Scholar, JNU
Mr Riju Raj Jamwal, Advocate, Supreme Court and CAFI
Ms Binalakshmi Nepram, Founder, Manipur Women Gun Survivor Network and Secretary General, CAFI

Chair : Prof C S R Murthy, Jawaharlal Nehru University

For more information, interviews etc please contact:

Binalakshmi Nepram
Founder, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network
Secretary General, Control Arms Foundation of India
B 5 / 146, First Floor, Safdarjung Enclave,
New Delhi - 110 029, India

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