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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New Centre on WPS at African Union Peace and Security

AfricanUnion.pdf

WOMEN IN PEACE OPERATIONS: THE UNSUNG CHAMPIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS

WOMEN IN PEACE OPERATIONS. THE UNSUNG CHAMPIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.pdf

LOUISE OLSSON: WE NEED TO PUSH FOR A MORE GENDER-EQUAL PEACE

LOUISE OLSSON. WE NEED TO PUSH FOR A MORE GENDER-EQUAL PEACE.pdf

‘We echo the call of Syrian women’ – anti-arms activists blockade MBDA’s Henlow site to protest against airstrikes on so-called Islamic State

From.pdf

Report of the Secretary-General on conflict-related sexual violence (S/2016/361).

The present report, which covers the period from January to December 2015, is submitted pursuant to paragraph 22 of Security Council resolution 2106 (2013), in which the Council requested me to report annually on the implementatio n of resolutions 1820 (2008), 1888 (2009) and 1960 (2010), and to recommend strategic actions. 

 

The analysis is forthcoming.

Mapping Women, Peace and Security in the UN Security Council: 2015: Trends and Recommendations.

NGOWG_MappingWPS_PolicyBrief_2015.pdf

The ‘woman-in-conflict’ at the UN Security Council: a subject of practice

COOK-2016-International_Affairs.pdf

The ‘war on terror’ and extremism: assessing the relevance of the Women, Peace and Security agenda.

AOL-IN-2016-International_Affairs.pdf

Concept paper for the open debate of the Security Council on the theme “Threat to international Peace and Security Caused by Terroristic Acts”, 11 March 2016

Concept Note S_2016_416.pdf

Statement III by Australia (March 21, 2016)

Extract: 

We note with concern that implementation of the commitments under the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region has recently been limited.

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