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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MEETING RECORDS: WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY, OCTOBER, 2015 (PART II).

Meeting Records October 13, 2015 (Part II).pdf

Meeting Records: Women, Peace and Security, October, 2015 (Part I).

Meeting Records October 13, 2015 (Part I).pdf

Panel Discussion: Indigenous Women at the Forefront of a Strong Global Non-Violent Peace, Security and Disarmament Movement

On 18 May, WILPF, the Manipur Women Gun Survivor Network and the Control Arms Foundation on India (CAFI) co-sponsored an event at the Baha’i Center in New York entitled “Indigenous Women at the Forefront of a Strong Global Non-Violent, Peace, Security & Disarmament Movement” .

UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE: SPECIAL REPORT-UNSCR 1325 in the Middle East and North Africa Women and Security

USIP Report-UNSCR-1325-in-the-Middle-East-and-North-Africa-Women-and-Security.pdf

U.S. official urges Sudan to promote gender equality

U.S. official urges Sudan to promote gender equality.pdf

Opposition PLP pushes for female parliamentary speaker

Opposition PLP pushes for female parliamentary speaker.pdf

UNSCR 1325 in the Middle East and North Africa

SR388-UNSCR-1325-in-the-Middle-East-and-North-Africa-Women-and-Security.pdf

Brazil and UN Security Council Resolution 1325 Progress and Challenges of the Implementation Process

Brazil-and-UN-SCR-1325.pdf

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