A talk by Ruth Taillon
on Wednesday 3 May 2017 at 7.30 pm
in the Peter Froggatt Centre
of Queen’s University Belfast.
Ruth Taillon gave a public talk, which was well attended, on the subject of women's roles locally and internationally.
Ruth became Director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies in 2013, having been with the Centre since 2009. Previously, she was Research Coordinator with Border Action, an intermediary funding body for the EU Peace Programme and Director of the West Belfast Economic Forum. Since arriving in Ireland from Canada in 1980, Ruth has worked with and for a number of community-based women’s groups and the trade union movement as both researcher and activist, focused on supporting and advancing women’s contributions to Irish political, social, economic and cultural life. Ruth has many years’ experience working with a range of public and civil society organisations on both sides of the Irish Border as a researcher and evaluator, specialising in gender, equality, and peace and conflict issues.
Ruth is currently a member of the Irish Government’s Oversight Group for the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. She will give an overview of the NAP and talk about the relevance of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 internationally, but also how it is relevant on the island of Ireland.
‘Resolution 1325 was the first formal and legal document from the Security Council that required parties in a conflict to prevent violations of women's rights, to support women's participation in peace negotiations and in post-conflict reconstruction, and to protect women and girls from sexual and gender-based violence in armed conflict. It was also the first United Nations resolution specifically to mention women.’