Gender and trade

Law enforcement officials play a key role in society, serving and protecting the people and upholding the law. That role is valid at all times, including during armed conflicts and other situations of violence. By engaging in dialogue with police and security forces about the law and their operations, the ICRC supports their efforts to incorporate the rules and standards of international law into their procedures. For the past 20 years, the manual "To Serve and to Protect" has provided guidance for that dialogue. This updated version takes that successful endeavour a step further, using recent experience to explain the international rules and standards applicable to the law enforcement function and their practical implications for law enforcement work.

Feminist leadership for social transformation: clearing the conceptual cloud is a concept document that is part of a broader process launched by CREA to analyze and evaluate the impact of its leadership development strategies, and to explore how to strengthen hese. The main goal of this exploration was not merely to create new theory – although that is valuable as well – but to advance our mission of bridging theory and practice to build feminist leadership for transformative social justice.

Measuring gender-transformative change, A review of literature and promising practices is a paper that discusses promising practices for measuring gender transformative change and looks at the literature for options to effectively include gender transformation in Monitoring and Evaluation systems. The paper is a joint product of CARE, World Fish, and CGIAR's Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems.

This publication presents the third Dutch National Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security, for the period 2016-2019. This plan is a contribution to the full realization of the ambitions defined by all UN Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security. The third NAP was developed as a cooperation between government and over 50 Dutch civil society organisations and knowledge institutions with the goal to: ‘help break down harmful gender norms, enhance protection, and give men and women equal leverage in conflict prevention, resolution, peacebuilding, relief and recovery.

Securing the Peace, Guiding the international community towards women’s effective Participation throughout Peace Process is a publication produced by UNIFEM. This publication targets the following actors: mediators and facilitators of peace negotiations and their teams; international and regional organizations; United Nations entities, particularly the Department of Political Affairs (DPA); international development banks; donor countries; international governmental and non-governmental organizations; and parties to formal negotiations. This report provides concrete recommendations to support women’s effective participation at all stages of a peace process, promote gender-sensitive peace negotiations and agreements, and encourage the mainstreaming of a gender perspective throughout the implementation of peace accords.