Regional Strategy "Protection of Arab Women: Peace and Security"

Security Council Resolution 1325, issued in the year 2000 on "Women, Peace and Security" together with the subsequent and related complementary decisions, constituted a critical turning point in addressing the human security of women during and after armed conflicts, all confirming the need to urge the international community in preventing and resolving conflicts and in peace building. With the development of the political conditions in the Arab region, Arab women have borne with resilience the heaviest burden of acts of violence, evacuation and displacement while playing prominent roles in the struggle for achieving freedom. The Arab region has faced during the past five years great challenges, major transformations, and unprecedented historic events in the form of uprisings, demonstrations and popular revolts by citizens demanding change, reform and good governance, to achieve democratic change, social justice, human dignity and fundamental rights. To that end, the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States and the Arab Women Organization have given much attention to the urgent need for issuing a Regional Strategy for the Protection of Arab women. The Strategy aims at achieving peace and security for women, in cooperation with UN Women. It is based on legal frameworks and mechanisms on both Arab and international levels.