ThsWomenNetherlands08

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Around the world, women are struggling to survive the troubles of armed conflict. Women use to be looked down upon, used as though they didn't have a saying in anything. Their roles in armed conflict is usually ignored or fail to be noticed or considered. They are usually kidnapped, raped, have to face sexual and other physical violence, and harassed. They have no choice but to grow up thinking of nothing but wars and violence. The only thing the women could do is take themselves and their children and escape from these horrible environments. But it's not that simple to escape, or live through these hostile things. The women who do live are usually found to have some sort of disease, and the captured women are abused and violated. They have no way to protect themselves and have not yet risen their voice to protect themselves.=====

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The United Nations has given effort to try and help women in armed conflict. They passed Resolution 1325 which has played a groundbreaking role by calling for equal participation and full involvement of women in all efforts for the maintenance of peace and security. Although they are giving effort in trying to help and stop the violence for women, there are many obstacles and ways they can't prevent it from happening. They are saying to stop rape and treat everyone equally and make peace.=====

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Netherlands is an informed nation that doesn't deal with this a lot. We are becoming increasingly active in the field of DDR (Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration) and gender area. We are trying to help and stop this the best that we can and are not in agreement with doing this to women.=====

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My solution to help women who are getting kidnapped or being harassed would be to carry a gun with them around everywhere, it would be a way to protect themselves from danger and not have to worry as much. This would be used in nations that are in need of it and have a really bad case of women being killed on armed conflict. The money would be donated by organizations to pay for the weapons, and they would be handed to adults only, but the adults would have to be with their children at all times.=====

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__**Background Information:**__ Some 800,000 to 900,000 people worldwide are trafficked every year into forced into forced labor and sexual exploitations. The majority of those who are being trafficked are women (80%) and children. Trafficking was more often associated with he illegal trade of goods across borders, namely contraband and particularly drugs. However, over the past ten years trade has took a giant leap forward to include the trafficking of human beings, mainly being women and children, often tricked into believing they will be given legitimate work, these people soon find themselves caught in a web, . Trafficking of women has taken a dramatic effect in nations such as Southeast Asian region. There is no solution yet, but is effecting many women who are being trafficked daily.

__**UN Involvement:**__ The UN has given effort in trying to help reduce the number of women being trafficked daily. They have created a group named CEDAW; Promotion and Implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. This is to stop violence against women, trafficking in women and women’s rights, and will also serve as input to the UN Secretary-General’s study on violence against women. They are very concerned about the rights of women and how trafficking them is wrong, and are trying they're best to reduce it's number.

The Netherlands is an aware and concerned nation. The Netherlands is a source, and destination country for men, women and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. In the year of 1991, the Netherlands government, in response to increasing trafficking in women. The maximum sentence for trafficking was raised from 5 to 6 years, and to 10 years for the trafficking of children under 16 and/or accompanied by serious physical violence. My nation is aware and trying to help this cause anyway they can.
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My solution to help women who are getting kidnapped or being harassed would be to carry a gun with them around everywhere, it would be a way to protect themselves from danger and not have to worry as much. This would be used in nations that are in need of it and have a really bad case of women being killed from the trafficking of them. The money would be donated by organizations to pay for the weapons, and they would be handed to adults only, but the adults would have to be with their children at all times.=====

   
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