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: 10 Point Manifesto on Conflict and Post Conflict Issued by Arab Regional Network on Women, Peace & Security

The Arab Regional Network on Women, Peace, and Security, which was launched in October 2013 and is composed of women from 14 countries from the Arab region, met in Amman, Jordan, during 1-3 April 2014 to deepen understanding of causes and consequences of issues related to women, peace, and security, and establish strategies and indicators for protection, prevention, participation, and promotion of women's safety, inclusion, and security in pea

ONLINE DIALOGUE/BLOG: WILPF Recaps as CSW Concludes in New York

The whirlwind last two weeks of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) ended late Friday night with the commission calling for gender to be prioritised in the next development agenda through both a stand-alone gender equality Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and integration of gender throughout all other goals.

MULTI-MEDIA: No Job for A Woman

Before World War II, war reporting was considered no job for a woman. But when American female reporters fought and won access to cover the war, there was another battle to fight: Women would be banned from the frontlines, prevented from covering Front Page stories, and assigned "woman's angle" stories. Instead, they turned their second-class assignment into a new kind of war story: one that was more intimate yet more revealing.

CONFERENCE/ MEETING: 3rd Conference of Muslim Women Parliamentarians Held in Tehran

Iran's capital of Tehran on Sunday hosted the third Conference of Muslim Women Parliamentarians, with an Iranian female lawmaker elected as the chairwoman of the Muslim Women Parliamentarians Committee.
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Laleh Eftekhari, a member of the Iranian parliament, took over from a female Sudanese legislator as the new chairperson of the Women Parliamentarians Committee for a one-year period.

ONLINE DIALOGUE/BLOG: The Women of the Syria Peace Talks

In the lead-up to the Geneva II negotiations, Syrian activists, local and international organizations, the UN, and various foreign governments made a clear demand: Women must be at the table. During the first round of talks in late January, both the regime and opposition delegations heeded that call, to differing extents. Below, we've documented what we know so far about women's formal roles in the Syria peace talks.

ONLINE DIALOGUE/BLOG: Peace Talks on S. Sudan, Syria: Where Are the Women?

The current peace negotiations on Syria and South Sudan hold out the hope of mitigating and even resolving two of the world's most destructive civil wars.

But the talks are undermined by the glaring absence of women, who account for most of the millions of people displaced by the conflicts and will have an important role to play in any post-conflict political process.

STATEMENT: Statement from the South Sudanese Women to the African Union (AU) and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

We, the women of South Sudan are shocked and disappointed by the recent outbreak of armed conflict in South Sudan, and are also concerned by the wide spread violence that has led to a continuous loss of numerous lives and displacement of women, men, youth and children.

ONLINE DIALOGUES/BLOGS: An Intimate Part of the Conflict

The struggle by South Sudanese women and civil society members to get a seat at the table during the recent signing of the ceasefire agreement between the government of South Sudan and rebels reminded me of an extraordinary event I witnessed nearly three years ago.

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