Hanna's House

Women Delivering Peace & Security Conference

Read our conference report on ‘Women Delivering Peace & Security ’ which took place on 5th November 2012 in Croke Park, Dublin.

Watch the video about the day ‘Women Delivering Peace & Security ’ Video and individual speeches:

• Introduction from Margaret Ward & Shirley Graham of Hanna’s House
• President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins 
• Professor Christine Chinkin of London School of Economics
• Poetry Recital Tribute to Inez McCormack
• Claire Hackett of Healing Through Remembering & Hanna’s House
• Fiona Buckley of the 5050 Group
• Sean Barrett, Ceann Comhairle & North South Inter-Parliamentary Association
• DCC Judith Gillespie, PSNI
• Professor Monica McWilliams, TJI, University of Ulster

• Fiona Buckley powerpoint presentation on 5050 representation and gender quotas
• Monica McWilliams powerpoint presentation on women’s rights and the judiciary
• Judith Gillespie full speech

Women Delivering Peace & Security Conference Photos

Hanna's House Alliance

The Hanna's House Alliance, a newly formed initiative of the Hanna’s House Peace Project, is a group of 50+ women from all corners of Ireland who are working together to create a more just, equal and non-violent society.

Read our new Ezine for up-to-date discussions on feminism and peace building.

The Good Friday Agreement points the way forward
for Women, Peace & Security

The Government is launching its National Action Plan on Women, Peace & Security (United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325) tomorrow, 25^th November. Mary Robinson, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and CEO of the National Women's Council, Susan McKay will be launching this ground-breaking resolution which calls on all nation-states to implement policies at home and abroad that reflect women's experience of conflict and that enables them to access formal peace building processes.

Hanna's House applauds the development of Ireland's National Action Plan on UNSCR 1325 because it demonstrates political will to include the experiences and needs of women affected by conflict into public policy.

Hanna's House are calling on the government to ensure that UNSCR 1325 is an integral part of the work of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement as well as Ministerial Councils set up under the Good Friday Agreement: - the British-Irish Council, British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly, North/South Council and the North-South Parliamentary Forum to cooperate on issues related to women's equality and human rights.

Dr Margaret Ward, Hanna's House Chair says ‘the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is ongoing and if UNSCR 1325 had existed at the time of its negotiation it would have provided a mechanism to ensure that women were adequately represented at the peace talks and in formal peace building institutions''.

Possible vehicles for the inclusion of UNSCR 1325 across Ireland are the development of an all island bill of rights and an all island civic forum as recommended in the Good Friday Agreement. Claire Hackett, Hanna's House Director says ‘as victims of the conflict live in both jurisdictions, cooperation between both governments is needed to implement UNSCR 1325 on this island'. 

The implementation of UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace and Security throughout Ireland using the Good Friday Agreement and its institutions as a vehicle for application will be discussed at an informal lunch meeting arranged by Hanna's House with TDs, Senators and members of civil society on 30^th November in Buswell's Hotel from 12-2pm. Hanna's House Board members along with the National Women's Council and other feminist organizations will be in attendance.

Read our position on UNSCR 1325 on women, peace and security as presented to senators in the Dail. (Download PowerPoint)