The international community has come a long way since resolution 1325 - but not nearly far enough:

When can we speak of a Happy International Womens day?

GENDER AND SECURITY IN PERSPECTIVE 

Reactions from my readers on sexual violence in public places:

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The EU strategic review is very weak on gender and on human security - major task ahead for the #EUGlobalStrategy

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Look in the handbook!

German debate about alienation, money and sex:

Zooming out on gender, sexual violence and security -  my own reflections

14 January, 2016.  I have spent quite some time during the last year to develop my thinking on gender and security not least with reference to the EU.

​ This work has gone on hand-in-hand with my work on human security.

Looking back at my book on EU and security which I finished drafting about a year ago I've learned a lot. The risk is when discussing gender that you stop by discussing the representation of women in different types of structures including CSDP  missions.

​ But of course gender security so much more and issue needs to be mainstreamed into most if not all of the pages on this website.

 Increasingly during the year the focus in the public debate has been on sexual violence not only in war but also linked to migration and refugees.

The notion of  in human trafficking has become very much more complicated
 as the problem of migrant smuggling has escalated.

 I am not the only one having to learn lessons on  these topics. The EU strategic review published in the summer of 2015  was weak on gender and  wider human security issues. The same now risks being the case for the EU global strategy.   One on my last tweets on this topic was  not surprisingly retweeted by the EU EEAS gender adviser.

The link to migration and sexual violence

Gender issues cannot be isolated from a wider discourse on security

See-the-links-tool - just to start:

Jenny Nordberg in New Yorker about Wallström, gender and feminism

What do you see if you search for "gender and security" on Youtube? A rich sample here:

Some of the topics covered in these videos:

But it is just the beginning of a much more and necessary comprehensive analysis as illustrated by this graph  showing the need to further mainstream gender into all the pages of this website.

Gender equality can thus not be measured in one way alone: 
It is a multidimensional concept with fundamental importance for human security and positive peace 

Human rights in China. 

Paid maternity leave - none in the US - also an aspect of the role of women in society

Copied from Bremmer tweet: Obama now has appointed 31% female Ambassadors - Eisenhower appointed 2%
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GEt the overall picture:

Watch the Hillary Clinton comprehensive analysis of gender equality at the Beijing conference 20 years ago - see below.

gender issues also to be mainstreamed into other pages - so far: 

Rather true - but I missed the train - for my family getting day care was the major struggle:

red= under 10% dark green over 38%

Factsheet on support to Afghan women leaders

Watch the Emma Watson He for She video below.
See the following pages:
- Gender, sexual violence and conflicts
- Gender issues in OSCE 
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From the WHO gender page - clilck on image to get to it!

Eu gender equality work in Syria

Clinton on the need to discuss women rights in the context of human rights at large: a comprehensive security analysis