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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Statement of the Deputy Secretary General on May 11, 2016 (Part II).

Extract: 

We also need to listen carefully to affected communities. We need to engage at the grass-roots level. We need to partner with faith leaders, women and young people. 

Meeting Records: Threats to International Peace and Security caused by Terrorist Acts, May 11, 2016

Meeting Record_May 11.pdf

Statement by the President of the Security Council on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts, May 2016

s_prst_2016_6.pdf

A Better Peace Video Tool

ICAN, International Civil Society Action Network, has released the Better Peace Tool video, which explores the history and evolution of peacemaking in modern times and provides practical guidance for overcoming six common barriers to women’s inclusion. Please, click here to see the video >>

A Better Peace Video Tool

ICAN Video Release_ The Better Peace Tool.pdf

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Abyei (S/2016/353).

Code: S/2016/353

Date: 15 April 2016

Topic: This report by the Secretary-General is on the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), pursuant to S/RES/2251 (2015), and covering the time period between 14 November 2015 and 15 April 2016.

Women, Peace and Security

Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Abyei (S/2016/353).

s_2016_353.pdf

Security Council Resolution 2287: Preamble.

Security Council Agenda Geographical Topic: 
Sudan
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
General Women, Peace and Security
Participation
Protection
Extract: 

Reaffirming its previous resolutions 1265 (1999), 1296 (2000), 1674 (2006), 1738 (2006), 1894 (2009) 2175 (2014) and 2222 (2015) on the protection of civilians in armed conflict; 1612 (2005), 1882 (2009), 1998 (2011), 2068 (2012), 2143 (2014) and 2223 (2015) on children and armed conflict; 1502 (2003) on the protection of humanitarian and United Nations personnel; and 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009), 1889 (2009), 1960 (2010), 2106 (2013), 2122 (201 3), and 2242 (2015) on women peace and security,

Stressing the need for effective human rights monitoring and reporting, including of any sexual and gender-based violence and violations and abuses committed against women and children, taking note that there have been no developments with regard to the operationalization of human rights monitoring in the Abyei Area, and reiterating its concern at the lack of cooperation by the parties with the Secretary-General to this end,

Recalling that its resolution 2086 (2013) reiterates the importance, when establishing and renewing the mandates of United Nations Missions, of including provisions on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women in post-conflict situations and on children and armed conflict, and emphasizing that persistent barriers to full implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), and subsequent resolutions on women, peace, and security, including 2242 (2015), will only be dismantled through dedicated commitment to women’s empowerment, participation, and human rights, and through concerted leadership, consistent information and action, and support, to build women’s engagement in all levels of decision-making,

Security Council Resolution 2287.

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