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  • Women, Peace and Security and International Law
  • Christine Chinkin
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date: August 2021
  • Print publication: 31 May 2021
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    In 2000, the UN Security Council adopted the ground-breaking Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) placing women at the centre of the agenda, thanks to years of campaigning. The Resolution recognises the differential impact of armed conflict on women and men, draws attention to the 'inextricable links between gender equality and international peace and security' and stresses the 'important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peace-building'. But what exactly is the WPS agenda and what is its content? What are its implications for peace and for security? And what does it mean for international lawyers? Through the narratives of women's activism and of international law this book seeks to make the WPS agenda better known to international lawyers and to ask whether it is, or could become, an international legal regime that conforms and responds to the realities of women's lives.
  • 12 - Human Trafficking, Human Rights and Women, Peace and Security: The Sound of Silence
  • Edited by Soumita Basu, Paul Kirby, University of Sussex, Laura Shepherd, University of Sydney
  • Book: New Directions in Women, Peace and Security
  • Published by: Bristol University Press
  • Published online: 12 March 2021
  • Print publication: 12 June 2020, pp 189-206
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    The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is rooted in international law – notably international humanitarian law, human rights and international criminal law. UNSCR 1325 specifically calls upon states to respect fully the obligations within these laws, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Subsequent WPS resolutions emphasize the need for commitment to women's human rights and implementation of human rights law, without again referencing CEDAW until Resolution 2467 in April 2019 (UNSCR 2467, para. 18). Despite the evident association of subject matter, the first seven WPS resolutions after 1325 are surprisingly silent about trafficking in women and girls, including in armed conflict. Resolution 2467 does refer to trafficking in persons but only to ask the Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate to include in its country reports information about states’ efforts to address it (UNSCR 2467, para. 29). This does not comprehensively locate trafficking within the WPS agenda.

    Since 2016, however, human trafficking has been addressed by the Council in UNSCR 2331 (2016) on trafficking in armed conflict, and UNSCR 2388 (2017) on the maintenance of international peace and security. Resolution 2331 marked the first time that the Council has addressed human trafficking and identified the existence of links between such trafficking – when committed under certain circumstances – and the maintenance of international peace and security, for which it has primary responsibility under Article 24 of the UN Charter. The resolution text indicates that this link emerges from the implication of terrorist groups in the trafficking of women and girls in conflict-related areas and from the fact that trafficking serves as an instrument to increase the finances and power of these organized criminal groups.

    Resolutions 2331 and 2388 highlight the relationship between conflict and post-conflict situations and trafficking. They aim at tackling the use of trafficking as a terrorist and a war economy tactic by terrorist groups. They operate at the interface of three UN ‘agendas’: i) CEDAW and WPS (including the work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict established under UNSCR 1888 in 2009); ii) the fight against trafficking in human beings, the criminalization of traffickers and the protection of victims of trafficking; and iii) the Security Council's broader agenda for the maintenance of international peace and security.

  • Introductory Remarks by Christine Chinkin
  • Christine Chinkin
  • Journal: Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting / Volume 112 / 2018
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 March 2019, p. 137
  • Print publication: 2018
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    Welcome—you are a very select audience—to this roundtable. And I have just been quibbling. How can you have a roundtable in a room this size? But, anyway, it is still called a roundtable on the Security Council, Women, Peace, and Security Agenda in Practice. I was going to say to start with, I do not know how many people in the room for whom the words “women, peace, and security” make sense or is a sort of language that you are actually used to. Certainly, when I talk to many international lawyers who are not in the room, they look at me blankly and say, “What? What is that?”

  • 4 - Self-Defence as a Justification for War: The Geo-Political and War on Terror Models
    • from Part II - Jus ad Bellum
  • Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics and Political Science, Mary Kaldor, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Book: International Law and New Wars
  • Published online: 19 May 2017
  • Print publication: 19 April 2017, pp 129-174
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