International Standards of Gender Policy in the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine

Abstract

The article is devoted to the definition of the role of gender in the formation of the national security and defense sector. The author analyzes the main international, regional and the related national legal acts that create the basis for the implementation of the gender component in the security and defense sector of Ukraine. The key findings of the study prove that legal science needs elaboration of the categorial framework, especially the categories denoting equality of sexes, social equality and human rights.Ensuring gender equality in the national security and defense sector has become one of the main priorities of the Ukrainian state policy in the field of Euro-Atlantic integration, which demands approximation to the NATO standards and recommendations. In modern societies protecting human rights has become the main goal of the whole legal system and the concept of equality is a fundamental principle of the legal science in general. It allows utilization of the appropriate methods and ways of the rights realization and protection. The principle of equality has become the determinant principle of life in a democratic and legal state.