This moderated dialogue will share the impact of insecurity and conflict on young women's human rights and how young women are mobilising on peace, security and human rights issues and contributing to implementation of UNSCR 1325. It will also provide recommendations to governments for the protection of young women's rights and security in times of conflict and delivering on the responsibility to protect.

In peacekeeping operations, the implementation of the WPS agenda depends on strong leadership in mainstreaming gender within missions. SRSG Johnson will talk about her responsibilities and experiences as UNMISS Head of Mission in ensuring a gender-responsive peacekeeping operation.

In recent years there has been a marked increase in international attention to sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict settings. While several policy initiatives to prevent or mitigate such violence have been advanced, each has fallen short. Dr. Chantal de Jonge Oudraat argues that it is of the utmost importance to understand why this “missing peace” continues to evade our best intentions.

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jody Williams, founding coorindator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Karen Honig Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by the Jane Addams College of Social Work.

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The Participation Pillar of the Women, Peace and Security agenda focuses on women's representation and participation in peace processes, electoral processes (as both candidates and voters) and UN decision-making positions. However progress has been slow and challenging. Ms.

Dr. Alison L. Boden,, Dean of Religious Life and the Chapel at Princeton University, is talking about "The Arab Spring and Women's Rights".

In the Middle East and North Africa the extraordinary political events since February 2011 have on the one hand opened new opportunities, but on the other hand also created new threats to women's human rights and their participation in political process.

The 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York, 4 - 15 March, 2013. The provisional theme will be "Elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls". Representatives from Member States, UN entities, and NGOs in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) from all regions of the world will attend the session.

Panel series on Women, Peace and Security:
Fighting impunity for sexual and gender-based crimes

The Chief Prosecutor of International Criminal Court, H.E. Ms. Fatou Bensouda will speak about the work of the International Criminal Court to prevent and prosecute sexual and gender-based crimes.

On 13 and 14 December 2012, UN Women will convene a forum to engage a range of stakeholders in the preparations for CSW57 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. The stakeholders' forum will consist of five inter-active panel discussions with participants from different institutional backgrounds and a range of experiences relating to elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls.

Women and Militarization Before, During and After Wars
A Feminist Approach to the Women Peace and Security Agenda
14th November, 2012
UN Church Center, NY 777 UN Plaza East 44th St and First Ave, New York.
CYNTHIA ENLOE, Research Professor at Clark University