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: September 2017

NGOWG_MAP-September-2017.pdf

Weaving Resistance Through Action: Strategies Of Women Human Rights Defenders Confronting Extractive Industries

awid report.pdf

Joint UN–AU High-Level Delegation To Nigeria And The DRC To Spotlight Women, Peace And Security Agenda

Joint UN–AU High.pdf

Women Who Draw: An Open Directory Of Female* Illustrators

This initiative gives professional women illustrators an opportunity to showcase their work. Women illustrators are often overlooked for their talents, while their male collegues receive opportunities to illustrate the covers of magazines and children's books.

Download a sample of the initiative, or read the original by Women Who Draw here. 

Women Who Draw: An Open Directory Of Female* Illustrators

womenwhodrawpdf.pdf

What’s Keeping Men From Engaging In Gender Equality?

What’s Keeping Men From Engaging In Gender Equality (2).pdf

Security Council Resolution 2359: Paragraph 3

PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
General Women, Peace and Security
Participation
Peacekeeping
Extract: 

3. Emphasizes the important role of women in prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peacebuilding, as recognized in resolution 1325 (2000), and underlines that a gender perspective should be taken into account in implementing all aspects of the strategic concept of operations of the FC -G5S;

Security Council Resolution 2364: Para. 27

Security Council Agenda Geographical Topic: 
Mali/Sahel
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes: 
General Women, Peace and Security
Participation
Implementation
Extract: 

Requests MINUSMA to take fully into account gender considerations as a cross-cutting issue throughout its mandate and to assist the Malian authorities in ensuring the full and effective participation, involvement and representation of women at all levels and at an early stage of the stabilization phase, including the security sector reform and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes, as well as in reconciliation and electoral processes, further requests MINUSMA to assist the parties to ensure women’s full and active participation in the implementation of the Agreement, and further requests enhanced reporting by MINUSMA to the Security Council on this issue;

Security Council Resolution 2364: Para. 20b

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

(b) Good offices and reconciliation

To exercise good offices, confidence-building and facilitation at the national and local levels, in order to support dialogue with and among all stakeholders towards reconciliation and social cohesion, to support efforts to reduce intercommunal tensions, bearing in mind the primary responsibility of the Malian authorities, to support the holding of peaceful, inclusive, fair and transparent elections, and to encourage and support the full implementation of the Agreement by the Government of Mali, the Plateforme and Coordination armed groups, including by promoting the participation of civil society, including women’s organizations, as well as youth organizations.

Security Council Resolution 2364: Para.2

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

Urges the Government of Mali, the Plateforme and Coordination armed groups to prioritize without further delay the necessary steps to advance the implementation of the following provisions of the Agreement, bearing in mind the need to ensure the full implementation of the Agreement, notably political and institutional aspects, as referred to in Part II of the Agreement, notably the decentralization process and the effective functioning of the interim administrations, ensuring women’s participation, as well as the timely holding of district, regional, legislative and presidential elections, municipal by-elections, as well as a constitutional referendum in 2017 and 2018 by the Malian authorities.

 

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