The year 1990’s is an important time for women’s empowerment. The world conferences of the 1990s –human rights, population, and social development — all provided opportunities to mobilize and build a consensus among many actors around women’s empowerment. Women are the sole providers for the families, more active in the informal or formal sectors of the economy, or more active in peacemaking groups as a result of conflict. Society is changing a lot in terms of acceptance of women as professionals, as bread-earners in families and as independent thinking individuals. Women have proved themselves as equals in many professions as well as proved themselves even better suited than men in others.
Women in zones of conflict and in reconstruction efforts, and those working on their behalf, emphasize that they often have little or no voice in negotiating peace or planning reconstruction, lack economic opportunities, and continue to be the primary targets of ongoing sexual violence.
Three hundred military, diplomatic, academic, nongovernment organizations (NGO), the United Nations, and business sector experts at a 2010 conference in Copenhagen on The Role of Women in Global Security shared experiences in conflict zones, offered recommendations for ways to increase women’s participation in global security, and cited barriers to putting those recommendations in practice.
“Women activists and women-led organizations mobilized to lead not only peace building at the community level but to play a direct role in finding a negotiated settlement,” Oywa said
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