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Secretary General's Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security visits NATO's KFOR Mission

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

07 Nov. 2018

Clare Hutchinson, Special Representative for Women, Peace and Security, visited NATO's peace-keeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) on Wednesday (7 November 2018). Ms. Hutchinson discussed the promotion of the Women, Peace and Security agenda with the commander of KFOR, Major General Salvatore Cuoci. The commander briefed the Special Representative on the many initiatives to ensure a gender perspective is incorporated across all KFOR operations and training.

NATO has extensive pre-deployment training for soldiers and civilians in the field, and deploys gender advisers to operations. NATO will work to strengthen existing training on combatting sexual violence. Monitoring and reporting is a core task for NATO commanders, and the Alliance will work to be faster and more systematic in ways so that perpetrators can be brought to justice.

During her visit to Kosovo, Ms. Hutchinson also addressed a meeting of the Kosovo Women's Network on "NATO's Implementation of UNSC Resolution 1325 - Advancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda." Ms. Hutchinson also met senior officials with the United Nations Mission in Kosovo.