Statement Of Military Violence Against Women

Statement to CSW 57 on Military Violence against Women

1.0 Introduction

Violence Against Women is Integral to War and Armed Conflict: The Urgent Necessity of the Universal Implementation of UNSCR 1325, was the article that drafted by Betty A. Raerdon in March 2013. This article was published by International Institute of Peace Education, retrieved at http://www.c-i-p-e.org/csw/index.html. For more understanding, this article also can be found in the book of Betty A. Raerdon: Key Texts in Gender and Peace in chapter 9: 129-138 that published in November 14, 2014 by Springer.

2.0 A brief summary about this article

The first part in this article stated about a statement of Military Violence Against Women addressed to the 57th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW), March 4-15, 2013. In this part, there was relief among peace activist that the Agreed Conclusions included support for the Arms trade Treaty and made reference to UNSCRs 1325 and 1820. However, the issues of women’s right to participate in security policy making is not fully mention and still need to circulate for the future presentation of

Impregnations happen when women become the victims of rapes or other forms of physical abuse which was done by the perpetrators and also military personnel. This type of military victims against women is a form of genocide that the military has its own objectives to rape especially to weaken the enemy in some ways. In other words, a military objective is to reduce the future numbers of their people and replacing them with the offspring of the perpetrators. They are robbing the child and babies for the future and a reason to continue the resist. Women, who are not generally recruited to fight, remain largely unarmed and unprotected from rapes and security which reduces their ability to