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.

X. Prioritization of Gender Justice within the UN System (including UN Peace Operations) and New Institutional Structures Needed to Accelerate Progress on the Gender Justice Front

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.

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

The commitment to achieve gender equality and justice included in the 1999 Broad Guidelines of State Policy specifically calls for the empowerment of women to achieve gender equality and justice.

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 support of male leadership is key to effecting change and achieving the objectives of gender justice. Men and boys at all levels of society must be committed to and actively involved in the struggle for gender equality and gender justice.

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

It was noted that the Partnership for Gender Justice Initiative could provide global advocacy for gender justice as well as facilitate the provision of international bilateral support to national stakeholders of conflict affected countries.

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

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.

Under the umbrella of this Initiative, the idea was raised to form a smaller expert group on gender justice that would develop proposals on how best to engage in post conflict situations on gender justice issues.

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 Consultative Committee expresses its gratitude to UNIFEM for its continuing support and for its ongoing efforts concerning gender justice following the convening of the first Conference on Gender Justice in Post Conflict Situations in September 2004.

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.

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

At the international level, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is establishing definitions of gender based crimes and standards of investigation that offer great hope for gender justice.

(b) To support appropriate investigations throughout Somalia in order to combat impunity, to bring perpetrators to justice, and to establish an effective, efficient and non gender biased justice system, including the juvenile justice system

He himself headed a 10 person gender equality unit at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform which was responsible for implementing Ireland's international gender equality commitments.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.