Participation

The Participation theme focuses on women’s representation and participation in peace processes, electoral process – as both the candidate and voter – UN decision-making positions, and in the broader social-political sphere.

The Security Council acknowledges the need for strategies to increase women’s participation in all UN missions and appointments to high-level positions in SCR 1325(OP3) and 1889(OP4) and further emphasises the need for women’s participation in peacebuilding processes (1889). 

Specifically, it calls for the mobilisation of resources for advancing gender equality and empowering women (OP14), reporting on the progress of women’s participation in UN missions (OP18), equal access to education for women and girls in post-conflict societies (OP11), and the increase of women’s participation in political and economic decision-making (OP15). Until this language translates into action, the potential for women’s full and equal contribution to international peace and security will remain unrealized.

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2018 Review of Women's Participation in the Korean Peace process

FIRST STEP: the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula

WILPF TRIENNIAL CONGRESS 2018 IN GHANA

WILPF holds a international triennial congress in order to create policy, build relationships between WILPF offices and organise. These congresses are a opportunity to build networks and communication between WILPF offices, elect leaders and formulate policy.

Security Council Resolution 2431: Para 53

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Conflict Prevention
Participation
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding
Extract: 

Para 53. Reaffirms the important role of women and youth in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peacebuilding, stresses the importance of their full, equal, effective and meaningful participation in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security, and acknowledges the important contribution that civil society can make in this regard;

Security Council Resolution 2431: Para 22

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Participation
Peacekeeping
Extract: 

Para 22. Welcomes and strongly encourages the deployment of female uniformed personnel in AMISOM by the Troop and Police Contributing Countries, and urges AMISOM to ensure the meaningful participation of women across its operations and to integrate a gender perspective throughout delivery of its mandate;

Security Council Resolution 2431

N1824359.pdf

Security Council Resolution 2430: Para 12

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Participation
Peacekeeping
Extract: 

Para 12. Supports the need to improve the mission’s capacity for liaison and engagement with the sides across all components, including people to people contacts, to keep stability and calm, and thereby contribute effectively to conditions conducive to progress in a settlement process; and requests the Secretary-General to increase the number of women in UNFICYP as well as to ensure the meaningful participation of women in all aspects of operations;

Security Council Resolution 2430: Para 8

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Participation
Peace Processes
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding
Extract: 

Para 8. Stresses the importance of the full and effective participation of civil society and women in particular at all stages of the peace process and urges their involvement in the development and implementation of post-conflict strategies for sustainable peace, including by revitalizing the Gender Committee and considering the Secretary-General’s proposal to conduct a gender-sensitive socioeconomic impact assessment;

Security Council Resolution 2430: Preamble

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Participation
Peace Processes
Peacekeeping
Extract: 

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Agreeing that the active participation and leadership of women is essential to the political process and can contribute to making any future settlement sustainable, recalling that women play a critically important role in peace processes as recognized in United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, and related resolutions; recalling Resolution 2242 (2015) and its aspiration to increase the number of women in military and police contingents of United Nations peacekeeping missions; and further recalling the importance of the active participation of youth, consistent with Resolution 2250,

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