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: Women's Empowerment is a Key to Successful Development

Statement by Dr. Nurgul Djanaeva, Forum of women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, at the Informal Interactive Hearings of the General Assembly with Nongovernmental organizations, Civil society organizations and the Private sector at the United Nations Headquarters.

STATEMENT: Women's League of Burma Statement on International Women's Day

Every year on the 8th of March, women all over the world commemorate the International Women's Day
for the advancement of the lives of women and the elimination of all forms of discrimination and
oppression. However, in Burma we are not allowed to observe this day.

VIDEO: From Peace to Politics: Burundian Women Take Charge

This video depicts how women crossed political parties and ethnic groups to become a unified force. Dramatically under-represented in the political forum in their country, as a unified entity women paved the way for their political participation and voices to be heard. Their solidarity enabled their concerns regarding previously ignored issues, such as female inheritance and war crimes against women, to have a much needed forum.

U of San Diego, Now Accepting Applications for Women Peace Makers and Peace Writers 2010 Women PeaceMakers Program

The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ) in San Diego, California, is currently accepting applications for its Women PeaceMakers Program (WPM). The WPM program is designed for leaders from conflict-affected countries around the world who are transforming conflict and assuring gender-inclusion in post conflict recovery through in human rights advocacy and peace building efforts they lead.

World YWCA on Facebook World YWCA on Twitter Women and Young Women Re-energize Zimbabwe's Global Political Agreement

“The coming together of Zimbabwean women across their diversities provides a new impetus and bridge for implementation of the Global Political Agreement.” — Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland; president & founding President of Realising Rights

Call for Solidarity: Freedom and Gender Equality in Iran

“We (a group of Iranian feminists and women's rights activists) demand an end to state-led violence and repression, as well as the immediate release of all political detainees in Iran.

Women of Afghanistan Investigation Fund

Ms. Magazine wants to send a team of experienced international journalists to Afghanistan to document the current plight of Afghan women. In late June, three Afghan women were killed and 13 more were wounded in a bus bombing engineered by the Taliban. The Afghan women on that bus were registering women voters. Afghan warlords are determined to prevent women from participating in free elections, as this will threaten their power.

The Declaration of Five Million Afghan Women Campaign

According to the constitution of Afghanistan and national and international treaties, one of the important social rights of human beings is to determine their political future (the right to elect and to be elected), but unfortunately in Afghan society the women in are facing many problems in order to use their rights.

Reaction from Afghan Women Civil Society Leaders to the Communiqué of the London Conference on Afghanistan

The London Conference on Afghanistan on January 28th on security, governance, and regional cooperation concluded with important decisions on how to resolve Afghanistan's conflict and governance challenges.

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