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It is vital to align your intersectional approach within your community-level P/CVE initiatives to those at the national and global levels to ensure you are being as effective and coherent as possible for policy and programmatic coherence. This includes complementing the existing frameworks that exist to promote a greater mutual understanding across discrete P/CVE and policy and practitioner communities. Intersectional-based P/CVE policies and practices, together with international frameworks, can facilitate intersectional approaches to disengagement, reintegration and rehabilitation of members of violent extremist and terrorist organizations.
There are several relevant frameworks that exist that promote the leadership and participation of marginalized communities. Building upon the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the UN Security Council Resolution 2475 on the Protection of Peoples with Disabilities in Conflict specifically calls for the meaningful participation and representation of persons with disabilities, including their representative organizations, in humanitarian action, conflict prevention, resolution, reconciliation, reconstruction and peacebuilding, and to consult with those with expertise working on disability mainstreaming. PAVE-focused countries who have signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities include Lebanon and countries who have ratified the Convention include: Iraq, Tunisia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
Photo Source: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs: Disability. “Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.” https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/convention-on-the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities.html.
The 1992 UN Minorities Declaration promotes the protection of the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and as such to contribute to the political and social stability of States in which they live. Since 2003, the UN General Assembly has also repeatedly called attention to the killings of persons because of their sexual orientation or gender identity through its resolutions on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary execution. As well as the UN Human Rights Council focusing on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Two other important pieces of legislation in relation to the PAVE project include the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination; and the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. All PAVE-focused countries have signed and ratified the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, apart from Kosovo due to its UN status. Other important legislation pieces to note in relation to intersectionality are: the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees; Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons; the United Nations Principles for Older Persons; the ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
