Report: Bodily Harmonies
risks of women human rights defenders in Colombia.
The Correlation Between the Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Iraq and Rates of Violence Against Women
February 2021
Universal Periodic Review of Lebanon
January 2021
The Human Rights of Women in Syria
February 2021
This policy brief addresses the effects and consequences of systematic legal exclusion, social marginalisation, and the regime’s punitive practices in perpetuating Syrian women’s vulnerability and promoting their legal and societal exclusion. It is based on a series of field consultations organised by Dawlaty and WILPF, in partnership with Syrian feminist and women-led partner organisations working in Syria: Zenobia, Release Me, Nophotozone, Start Point, Syrian Women Survivors, and Damma. It concludes with pertinent recommendations to the international community, the UN, and actors developing and supporting gender-sensitive transitional justice mechanisms in Syria.
Universal Periodic Review of Niger
February 2021
Niger will undergo its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in May 2021. This joint report that WILPF Niger and ONG Femmes, Actions et Développement submitted to the UPR Working Group provides analysis and recommendations on: ; early and forced marriage; girls’ right to education; women’s participation in political and public life; conflict prevention and the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. This report was developed in close collaboration with WILPF International.
Policy brief: Sexual Violence by Force of Arms Against Women in Syria
October 2020
The policy brief aims to present a feminist approach based on a gendered analysis of sexual violence crimes in Syria. This policy brief is a product of collaboration between ‘Dawlaty’ and ‘Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)’, as well as extensive and continuous coordination with Syrian feminist and women-led partner organisations working in Syria and in neighbouring countries to achieve justice within society. Those organisations are ‘Damma’, ‘Release Me’, ‘Start Point’, ‘Syrian Survivors’, ‘Nophotozone’, ‘Zenobia’, as well as ‘Women Now for Development’
Policy Brief: Bullets are Cheaper than Sugar
December 2020
This policy brief adopts a feminist lens in reviewing the existent UNSC framework on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the MENA region. It analyses the adequacy of existing measures and focuses on bridging its gaps and limitations. It is designed to serve as a tool for policy dialogue on the WPS agenda, to help identify the national WPS priorities and facilitate an exchange to take stock of the existence, effectiveness, and results of legislation, policies, institutions and programmes to address and advance WPS priorities.
Joint submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Libya
December 2020
This joint submission for the Universal Periodic Review of Libya was written by WILPF, along with Together We Build It (TWBI), Development Organisation To Support Youth And Women (DSYW), Alnour Women’s Organisation and I Am a Libyan Woman But My Child Is A Foreigner. The submission highlights concerns and recommendations on discrimination against women in law and in practice, child marriage, sexual and gender-based violence, equal employment, humanitarian needs and the impact of the conflict on economic and social rights, forced displacement, migrants and detention, targeting of women human rights defenders and journalists, women’s meaningful participation in the peace and political processes, and human rights and peace education.