Partners for Gender Justice Initiative

Putting Women in the Gender Justice Equation

Best Practices in the Gender Justice Area

One System Approach for Promoting Gender Justice

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Independent Review Panel for Accountability for Gender Justice

Prioritizing Gender Justice in the UN System's Activities

YUVA five core values include gender justice, social justice, secularism and democracy, ecological justice and honesty and integrity.

Long term and Stable Funding for Gender Justice Priorities

It is clear from our work on gender justice that justice and peace are closely interlinked.

There can be no gender justice in a post conflict country if there is no justice to begin with.

While individual UN entities may focus on gender justice objectives, and some UN entities may have staff positions relating to gender justice, there remains a major deficiency in terms of adequate organizational structures and staffing dedicated to gender justice as well as a huge gap in adequate coordination and prioritization among UN entities to focus on and advance gender justice objectives in the field.

These three gender justice programme proposals employ strategies in line with UNIFEM's Multi Year Funding Framework (MYFF) for 2004 2007, utilizing the following four core strategies to address gender justice concerns

The YMCA also welcomes cooperation among women's organisations, NGOs, UN bodies and governments in addressing gender inequalities and achieving gender justice.

While globalization provides wider opportunities for gender equality and justice, it also creates conditions that can perpetuate gender inequality in the work force.

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Gender justice must not be left to the realm of customary and traditional legal systems.

We built this institution based on social justice, gender equity, this idea of empowering women.

Men and boys at all levels of society must be committed to and actively involved in the struggle for gender equality and gender justice.

Issues discussed included lack of access to justice, gender discrimination in the criminal justice system, and the politicization of religion and tradition and poverty.

The linkages between crime prevention and criminal justice and gender equality were acknowledged in some resolutions.

That the requirements of gender justice in a post conflict society are immediate and vast is

A strong focus on advocacy is essential for building a gender justice movement in a country.

In resolution 1325 (2000), the Security Council spoke with one voice in emphasizing the need to mainstream gender justice and gender equality in all peace processes.

The Chancellor of Justice has the duty to promote gender equality and the principle of equal treatment.

The support of male leadership is key to effecting change and achieving the objectives of gender justice.

Gender justice cannot be bargained away as a soft chip for realizing other political and operational gains.

Attorney Generals Office (September 2004), Discussion Paper on Gender Issues in the Criminal Justice System of the Maldives.

One particular suggestion put forth was to include gender justice criteria within a government's reporting requirement for CEDAW.

With regard to persisting discriminative social cultural patterns of conduct and attitude towards women, the Government has adopted Gender Mainstreaming as a strategy to achieve gender equality and justice.

The organization is also called Nasawiya and is a group of activits who are involved in gender justice work.

That is why their presence is necessary in consolidating democratic institutions, in strengthening gender justice and in legislative debate.

5 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Gender Equality Striving for Justice in an Unequal World (Geneva, 2005).

Gender justice can no longer be bargained away as a soft chip for realizing other political and operational gains.

Men at all levels, specifically high level men in positions of power, must join the struggle for gender justice.

Finally, there must be increased outreach to men and boys of a country so that they truly understand that promoting gender equality and gender justice benefits women and men alike.

There is a need in the UN for both gender mainstreaming in programmes and specific dedicated initiatives in order to best address and support gender justice requirements of post conflict countries.

Gender equality and gender mainstreaming

Under the Access to Justice Programme, special attention is being devoted towards gender sensitization of the police and the judiciary.

Each UN peace operation should be planned and assessed against a gender justice checklist drawn from Security Council resolution 1325.

To improve gender equality and justice at national, provincial and municipal levels, the Government had revised the law on decentralization, forcing local authorities to integrate gender issues into every stage of development.

Gender equality overcoming pervasive gender bias

The national vision on women empowerment has been the realization of gender equality and justice within the family, community and state.

Specific terms of reference for such gender justice profiles positions need to be formulated and broadly disseminated to identify such experts.

The platform for achieving gender equality and gender justice in a conflict affected country is not owned by the ruling party or by the government, but by people committed to transformation within society.