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 Secretary-General at the Open Debate on THREATS TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY CAUSED BY TERRORIST ACTS, April 14, 2016

The Secretary-General April 14.pdf

Morocco: Women MPs Want One Third of Parliament Seats in Coming 2016 Elections

Morocco_ Women MPs Want One Third of Parliament Seats in Coming 2016 Elections _ The North Africa Post.pdf

CSW60 Report

The 60th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW60) took place at United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York from 14 to 24 March, 2016. The priority theme this year was "Women’s Empowerment and the Link to Sustainable Development.”

National Action Plan: Kenya

Kenya NAP-with-cover-final.pdf

More Women Involvement Needed in Conflict Prevention: India

More women involvement needed in conflict prevention in India - The Economic Times.pdf

Ways Syrian Women Must be Included in the Upcoming Peace Talks

The WILPF intiative focuses on the Syrian peace talks and the need for women to be included in them.  WILPF points to numerous reasons why the inclusion of Syrian women in the talk could lead to a fuller, richer peace.  As numerous studies have shown, the substantive inclusion of women in peace talks makes them more likely to be implemented and last.

Monthly Action Points (MAP) for the Security Council: April 2016

For April, in which China has the presidency of the UN Security Council, the MAP provides recommendations on the situations in Central African Republic, Colombia, South Sudan, Syria, Western Sahara, and Yemen.

CSW60 (Commission on the Status of Women) Report

CSW60Report.pdf

Statement of Sweden at the Open Debate on the Situation in the Middle East, April 18, 2016

Statement of Sweden.pdf

New Gender Equality Project in Colombia

In 2016, WILPF Colombia (LIMPAL in Spanish) launched the project “Go Women! – For our rights in San Cristóbal” in the capital city of Bogota.

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