Transcript About the OSCE - Milo Đukanović

The Organization for the Security and
Cooperation in Europe
Supporting the implementation of
UNSCR 1325 by promoting a
comprehensive approach to
integrating a gender perspective in
the security sector
1
Outline of the Presentation
 OSCE’s three dimensions and how
together they contribute to promoting
security
 OSCE’s commitments to Gender
Equality and UNSCR 1325
 Principals that guide the OSCE in
promoting national level
implementation of UNSCR 1325
 OSCE’s institutions and programs
that support participating States in
meeting these commitments
2
The three dimensions of the OSCE
 Politico-Military Dimension
 Arms control, Border management,
Combating terrorism, Conflict prevention,
Military reform, Policing
 Economic and environmental Dimension
 Anti-trafficking, Economic and
Environmental activities
 Human Dimension
 Anti-trafficking, Democratization,
Education, Elections, Gender equality,
Human rights, Media freedom, Minority
rights, Rule of law and Tolerance and
non-discrimination
3
The Human Dimension of Security
 Integrating the promotion and
protection of human rights and
fundamental freedoms, the
development of democratic societies
and strengthening the rule of law in all
areas related to security
 As important to the maintenance of
peace and stability as the politicomilitary or economic dimensions.
4
OSCE commitments
on Gender and UNSCR 1325
 OSCE Action Plan for the Promotion
of Gender Equality 2004 that call for
OSCE structures to promote the
implementation of UNSCR 1325
 OSCE Ministerial Council Decision
14/05 Women in Conflict Prevention,
Crisis Management, and Post-Conflict
Rehabilitation
5
Why the OSCE and UNSCR 1325?
UN SCR 1325 supports
a systematic inclusion
of gender in security
processes
6
Principals that guide the OSCE in promoting national level
implementation of UNSCR 1325
 Developing national level implementation
plans is not an end in itself
 Such plans must be backed up by
financial means and political willingness
to translate policy into practice.
 UNSCR 1325 promotes the integration of a
gender perspective in all areas of peace and
security, including all concrete peacebuilding
measures and programming
 It involves a broad group of actors spanning
from Police to Parliamentarians to Civil
Society
7
Principals that guide the OSCE in promoting national level
implementation of UNSCR 1325
 Ensuring national implementation of UNSCR
1325 on Women, Peace and Security
means developing and implementing
practical actions that operationalize the
principles it sets forth.
 Supporting this process must integrate a
gender perspective in the work of relevant
actors, and the institutions that they
represent – including the security sector and
its supporting structures.
 By ensuring that day to day decision making
processes include a gender perspective,
interventions in security related matters will
benefit both men and women equally.
8
Reasons for mainstreaming gender in the
security sector
 Introducing a gender perspective as a
part of security sector will make it
more:




Accountable
Transparent
Sustainable
Responsive
 It will also ensure that different needs
and priorities are duly addressed
9
Relevant Institutions of the OSCE
OSCE Field Missions and Offices
 Provide concrete support to
participating States in implementing
OSCE commitments
Gender Equality Unit of the OSCE
Secretariat in Vienna
 Works to ensure that gender equality
is mainstreamed in all levels of the
OSCE
10
OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and
Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw
Human Rights, Women, and Security
Human Rights Department
 Programme objectives:
 Bring added value to the field of protection
and promotion of women’s human rights
and gender equality
 Integrate a gender perspective in the
context of promoting security – through all
phases including conflict prevention, crisis
management and post-conflict
reconstruction
11
Human Rights, Women, and Security
Programme (ct’d)
 Activities:
 Contribute to the implementation of
UNSCR1325 by integrating a gender
perspective in the security sector and its
supporting institutions – work that is
based on the Gender and SSR Toolkit
that was developed in cooperation with
INSTRAW and DCAF
 Integrate a women’s rights perspective
in other areas related to security, such
as conflict prevention and early warning
12
THANK YOU – QUESTIONS?
Linda Öhman
Human Rights Officer
Human Rights, Women and Security
ODIHR – Human Rights Department
Warsaw, Poland
[email protected]
13