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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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: What's So Exciting about Women Leading the Way?

I want to tell you about a woman I know, who shall be called Alma (not her real name). She is a lawyer from the Philippines with large dreams and a large heart. She came to Canada very young and already a lawyer. She saw how she could never be a lawyer here unless she went to law school in Canada; she did that, and passed the bar.

VIDEO: Liberia/Women's Empowerment

Liberian women are taking positions of power and filling roles usually dominated by men.

View the video on UNTV here.

VIDEO: Hanan Ashrawi: Palestinian Women's Quest for Validation

Click here to view the video of Dr. Ashrawi's speech.

Dr. Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi is a Palestinian Christian legislator, activist, and scholar.

SPEECH: Women Worldwide Are Making the Most of the Millennium Development Goals

Melanne Verveer Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC

ARTICLE: Role Reversal

By: Fatoumata Nabie Fofana

Today's edition is focused on wives taking on roles as primary breadwinners in their families while their husbands assuming the stay-at-home role with the responsibilities of raising the children. Nowadays, more women in Liberian are becoming primary breadwinners for their families; stepping away from their 'home-keeper' roles.

Liberian Women Democracy Radio Launched

The first ever women owned radio station was introduced in Liberia. Liberian Women Democracy Radio (LWDR FM 91.1), which was launched on August 5, 2010 by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia, in the Mudhole community, is the second women's radio station in Africa and the fourth in the world. Welcoming the initiative is the YWCA of Liberia as one of the implementing agencies together with the Liberia Women Media Action Committee.

STATEMENT: Peace Missions and Gender Equality: Ten Lessons from the Ground

It's an honor to speak today on the topic of peace missions and gender equality. I want to begin by congratulating the OSCE and particularly the Gender Section of the Office of the Secretary General for organizing this series to raise the awareness of delegates of participating States and OSCE staff members on the key role of women in conflict prevention, drawing on experiences from around the world.

STATEMENT: ICJW Urges Israel to Include Women

The new President of ICJW, Sharon Gustafson, has urged Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appoint at least one woman to any team involved in talks with the Palestinian Authority.

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