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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ONLINE DISCUSSION: Women as a Barometer of Success and Stability? Sharing 'Lessons Learned' from Iraq to Afghanistan

Webcast: You may participate in this event in two ways. You can register to attend the event, or you may watch the live webcast beginning at 11:00am EDT on September 27, 2010 at www.usip.org/webcast

MEETING: WILPF Voices of African Women Campaign Meeting

2-3pm Special talks:

Peace one day and MDG3 in Africa – [African Women's Decade 2010-2020]

VAW, trafficking of women and poverty in Africa [case of Zimbabwe]

4-7pm Workshops:

Road Map to the African Women's Decade

Venue: Tindlemanor Basement. 52/54 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8RT.

Station: Old street, exit 5. Bus 205.

CONFERENCE: Women in Peace Processes in Asia and the Pacific

Co-organised with the India-based organisation Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP), the roundtable will provide a forum for open exchange of experiences and for practical and creative discussions. It will be build on the HD Centre's experience in convening senior level roundtables such as with the Oslo forum retreats and similar Women at the Table events in Africa and Indonesia.

Sierra Leone National African Women's Leadership Institute: 'Reclaiming Our Bodies: Women's Leadership and Movement Building'

AMwA will be holding a Sierra Leone National African Women's Leadership Institute (AWLI) on the theme, “Reclaiming Our bodies: Women's Leadership and Movement Building on Gender Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Conflict and Post Conflict Africa”, that is scheduled to take place from 3rd – 16th October, 2010 in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

ONLINE COURSE: Gender and Conflict Transformation

Aim

This four-week online course brings together existing expertise on the relationship between gender and conflict transformation. The aim of the course is to empower women to become key agents in conflict transformation. The course will use a variety of interactive methods that illicit thinking and exchange.

Specifics aims of the course are to:

2nd European Conference on Politics and Gender

The ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics forms a broad-based network on issues relating to the study of gender and sexuality in politics and world politics.

Women's Day Live! Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day

THE TIME FOR WOMEN IS NOW

You are invited to participate in the creation of an extraordinary global multi-media event to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day, on March 8, 2011, and the transformative power of women in global society.

Women's Day Live! (formerly Women AID Live!) is happening! It's all here. Now. A once in a lifetime historic opportunity.

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