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As we enter the next decade of the women, peace and security agenda examining relevant research and focusing on the participation of women in peacebuilding efforts is important
Introduction
The year 2020 marked the 20
th anniversary of the unanimous adoption of the United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security; 25 years since the World Conference on Women in Beijing; and the conclusion of the African Women’s Decade. Since 2000, the UN has adopted 10 subsequent resolutions and several strategies under the normative framework of the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. On the African continent, the African Union (AU) and its member states have promoted the WPS agenda through several legal guidelines, training manuals and normative frameworks, including Aspiration 6 of Agenda 2063, the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (2004), The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Wom
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Sexual violence: Gambia’s Truth Commission must not miss its last chance
The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission in Gambia has under-investigated and missed acknowledging sexual violence under Yahya Jammeh’s dictatorship, Marion Volkmann-Brandau, human rights lawyer, and Toufah Jallow, Gambian women rights activist and rape survivor, showed in a recently released documentary. While exposing a long series of shortcomings at the TRRC, they call for a change before the Commission ends its work this year.
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