“To ensure that an agreement is reached requires one key action: inviting women’s peace movements to the negotiating table.”
over the last three decades, from Liberia to Northern Ireland, showed that in all but one case, when women’s groups were able to effectively influence a peace process, an agreement was almost always reached.advancing an agenda on Women, Peace, and Security , including the groundbreaking UNSCR 1325 mandating women’s inclusion in peace processes. There are also WPS National Action Plans in 82 countries, including the United States as signed by President Trump in 2017.
In 1951, as U.S. bombs rained down on North Korea, an international delegation of 21 women from 17 countries traveled throughout the northern part of the Korean Peninsula to document the carnage and destruction. They visited bombed-out schools, hospitals, and churches, saw mass grave sites, and heard testimony from survivors about the unspeakable atrocities they endured.
For seven decades women have been calling for an end to the Korean War because the war didn’t end with a peace agreement but with a temporary armistice. As a result, Korea became heavily militarized, with over 28,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea and the establishment of “camptowns” around U.S. bases. With Koreans left destitute after the war, women were forced to support their families in any way they could.
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