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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Adopted the third national action plan, for the period 2014-2019 last year, which will continue to emphasize using the untapped potential of women and seek to involve women actively, on an equal basis, in the prevention and resolution of conflicts, in peace negotiations, peacebuilding and peacekeeping, in humanitarian response and in post- conflict reconstruction and commits to concrete actions in order to achieve those ends.

Monthly Action Points (MAP) for the Security Council: October 2015

For October 2015, in which Spain has the presidency of the UN Security Council, the MAP provides recommendations on the situations in Haiti, Iraq, South Sudan, and Syria, as well as Women, Peace and Security, in the context of the 15th Anniversary of SCR 1325 (2000).

Monthly Action Points (MAP) on Women, Peace and Security, NGOWG, October 2015

pdf-MAP_October2015.pdf

Statement by Dr. Alaa Murabit UN Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security

CSO_Statement_OpenDebate_ Murabit_Oct2015_EN.pdf

Women Leading Peace

Women Leading Peace.pdf

THE UN, WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY: 15 YEARS ON, WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN PEACE AND SECURITY IS MORE URGENT THAN EVER

UN WPS PARTICIPATION.pdf

People's action plans: empowering civil society to implement 1325

On 29 October 2015, the International Institute for Peace Education hosted a panel at the Peace Forum on, “People’s Action Plans: Empowering Civil Society to Implement 1325.”

Candid Voices from the Field

Candid Voices from the Field.pdf

UNSCR 2242 (2015)

N1531109.pdf

After the High-level Review – Connecting Local and Global Action to Implement the WPS Agenda

On 23 October 2015, WILPF WPS Programme, the Mission of Liechtenstein to the UN, and Liechtenstein Institute for Self-Determination at Princeton University held our final Women, Peace and Security lecture series, “After the High-Level Review -- Connecting Local and Global Action to Implement the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.” Participants included Liechtenstein Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E.

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