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PROGRESS: Has your organization seen
progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of
action and in your constituency during the first half of the Decade? |
See actions below
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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ACTIONS: What actions have been
undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence during the first half of the Decade?
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Both national and international actions include:
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At the National Triennial Conference 2003 resolutions were passed on:
Aid to Developing Countries; Small Arms Trade in the Pacific; Support
for the UN and for the UN Controlled Peace-Keeping Forces in Iraq.
Government Ministers were alerted to NZFGW policy on each of
these matters.
* At the 28th IFUW Triennial Conference NZFGW
proposed the above resolution on Small Arms Trade in the Pacific and
was supported in this by AFUW.
* At the same Conference NZFGW
also proposed a resolution on the Commercial Exploitation of Children
drawing NFA attention to the UN Protocol to the Convention on the
Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and
Child Pornography; the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized
Crime and its Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and Children; the UN Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in
Armed Conflict. and the ILO Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child
Labour.
* NZFGW has chosen to focus its programmes in the
Triennium 2004-07 on a resolution passed at the 28th IFUW Conference on
Women: Essential to Peace together with the IFUW Programme for Action
Theme of Human Security and Peace with a view to researching and
addressing family and domestic violence, and women's economic
independence and security.
* An individual Branch of NZFGW
provides: support for a School for Teenage Parents; a food and money
donation to Victim Support and runs programmes that focus on cultural
diversity, restorative justice, the local Safer Community Council and
working in an international crisis situation.
* NZFGW maintains
close links with the Pacific Graduate Women's Network (PGWNet), a
regional group of IFUW, whose establishment was supported and assisted
by NZFGW and AFUW. Since some of the individual island states of
PGWNet have had both political unrest and climatic disasters to cope
with NZFGW has provided in-kind support for them in re-building. This
action reflects 'understanding, tolerance and solidarity'.
* A
number of individual members of NZFGW are also very active members of
the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCWNZ), WILPF, the UN
Association of New Zealand (UNANZ), and the National Consultative
Committee on Disarmament and through these organizations promote and
monitor the production, stockpiling and illicit export of weapons of
mass destruction; nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and the
manufacture and export of small arms. They also monitor closely
the maintenance of New Zealand's valued nuclear free status.
* A
number of individual members through their work in the Peace Foundation
advocate for the inclusion of teaching of conflict resolution and peace
studies in the curriculum for schools and universities.
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ADVICE: What advice would you like to
give to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to promote a
culture of peace and nonviolence during the second half of the Decade? |
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PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and
networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the
global movement for a culture of peace? |
Partnerships and Networks include:
The
Ministry of Women's Affairs, NCWNZ, UNIFEM (NZ), UNANZ, the Five-O
members of Zonta, Soroptimists and Business and Professional Women, the
(NZ) New Horizons for Women's Trust, the (NZ) Ministry of Social
Development, the Peace Foundation.
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PLANS: What new engagements are
planned by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence in the second half of the Decade (2005-2010)? |
Future Plans
include a request that each Branch present a report on the programme
they have carried out on Human Security and Peace or Women: Essential
for Peace at the NZFGW Triennial Conference in 2006.
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Postal address of organization
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P O Box 3057
Wellington
New Zealand
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E-mail address of organization
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wendyz@ihug.co.nz
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Website address of organization
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http://www.nzfgw.org.nz/
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Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace
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[1] Education for a Culture of Peace
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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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[2] Human Rights
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Highest priority country of action (or international)
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New Zealand
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Second priority country of action (or international)
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International in the Pacific region
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