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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Monthly Action Points (MAP) for the Security Council: January 2018

For January, in which Kazakhstan has the presidency of the UN Security Council, the MAP provides recommendations on Burundi, Central African Republic, Cyprus, Iraq, ISIL (Da’esh) & Al-Qaeda, and West Africa.

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Monthly Action Points (MAP) for the Security Council: January 2018

Security Council Resolution 2396 (Operative Clause 39)

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Participation
Extract: 

Encourages Member States, as well as international, regional, and subregional entities to ensure participation and leadership of women in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of these strategies for addressing returning and relocating foreign terrorist fighters and their families;

Security Council Resolution 2396

Security Council Resolution 2395 (Operative Clause 28)

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Conflict Prevention
Participation
Human Rights
Extract: 

Reiterates the call for CTED to integrate gender as a cross-cutting issue throughout its activities, including within country-specific assessments and reports, recommendations made to Member States, facilitating technical assistance to Member States, and briefings to the Council, encourages CTED to hold consultations with women and women’s organizations to inform its work, and urges CTED in collaboration with UN Women to conduct and gather gender-sensitive research and data collection on the drivers of radicalization to terrorism for women, and the impacts of counterterrorism strategies on women’s human rights and women’s organizations

Security Council Resolution 2395 (Operative Clause 21)

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Participation
Extract: 

[...] welcomes the role, in this regard, of relevant civil society, academia, think tanks, and the private sector, especially women-, youth-, and locally-focused actors

Security Council Resolution 2395 (Preamble)

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
General Women, Peace and Security
Conflict Prevention
Participation
Human Rights
Justice, Rule of Law and Security Sector Reform
Extract: 

[...] Noting the importance of engaging, as appropriate, with women-, youth-, and locally-focused entities [...] Recognizing the importance of civil society, including community-based civil society, the private sector, academia, think tanks, media, youth, women, and cultural, educational, and religious leaders in increasing awareness about the threats of terrorism and more effectively tackling them [...] Reaffirming the need to increase attention to women and youth in all work on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts, and noting the importance of incorporating, as appropriate, the participation of women and youth in developing strategies to counter terrorism and violent extremism which can be conducive to terrorism 

Security Council Resolution 2395

Women In Mediation: Connecting The Local And The Global

Security Council Resolution 2391 (2017): para.32

Security Council Agenda Geographical Topic: 
Mali/Sahel
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
Conflict Prevention
Participation
Extract: 

32.  Calls upon G5 Sahel States to ensure women’s full and equal participation in institutions and mechanisms for the prevention and resolution of conflicts, as well as to include a gender perspective in the development of comprehensive strategies to counter the threat posed by terrorism and organized crime (including trafficking in persons, arms, drugs and natural resources, and the smuggling of migrants) in the Sahel region;

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