In this article, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Jayne Huckerby set out some of the challenges in addressing gender dimensions in each of these areas of policy-making, as well as offer an account of the reasons these challenges are occurring, along with some thoughts on how a human rights and gender-sensitive way forward might look.
KEY RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Gendering counter-terrorism and P/CVE cannot be done adequately or effectively without centralizing human rights, and more specifically women’s human rights in the law and practice of counter-terrorism.
2. Policymakers must insist on genuine assistance programs for female victims that are adequately funded and do not treat victims as criminals; querying the trafficking-terror nexus being advanced in the international community and its implications; creating spaces for those traditionally outside of security architecture to provide substantive input based on their expertise in gender mainstreaming and human rights questions; proposing human-rights compliant and gender-sensitive approaches to women returning from ISIS; and developing frameworks for evaluating and remedying national security policies (e.g., countering terrorism financing rules) that adversely impact women and women’s groups.
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