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Women in Kosovo are women who live in or are from the Republic of Kosovo. As citizens of a post-war nation, some Kosovar (or Kosovan) women have become participants in the process of peace-building and establishing pro-gender equality in Kosovo's rehabilitation process. [1] Women in Kosovo have also become active in politics and law enforcement in the Republic of Kosovo. An example of which is ...
The Women Peace and Security Index ( WPS) ranks countries in terms of women's security, justice, and inclusion. [1] The index is widely used to compare countries as well as their development trends over time.
She became a specialist in peace and security at the Peace and Security Unit of UN Women from 2012 to 2013. Swaine was a gender consultant on the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ExpRes Roster on Crisis Prevention and Recover at the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery.
Women's participation in peacekeeping outside the UN also faces problems and difficulties. First, women's peacekeeping is sometimes ineffective by the fact that operations are ad hoc and decentralized, limited to public marches or observation. Second, lack of funding prevents women from further peacekeeping operations.
Atifete Jahjaga ( Albanian pronunciation: [atiˈfɛːtɛ jahˈjaːɡa]; born 20 April 1975) is a Kosovar Albanian politician who served as the third President of Kosovo. She was the first female President of the Republic of Kosovo, the first non-partisan candidate and the youngest female head of state to be elected to the top office.
U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security. Created on December 1, 2011, and maintained as mandated by Executive Order 13595 [15] this plan is the culmination of the past 20 years of thinking on women and foreign policy. The plan is equally about promoting women's involvement in peacemaking in order to have more stable peace and ...
Critics of the bombing have argued that the campaign violated international law. [2] [3] Some also argued that NATO triggered or accelerated the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo as the violence escalated once the campaign began.
Christine Mary Chinkin (born 1949) is a Professor of International Law and founding Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science [1] and the William W. Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School .