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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Swedish Foreign Service action plan for feminist foreign policy 2015–2018 including focus areas for 2017

Swedish Foreign Service action plan 2017.pdf

Participation, Protection

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This is an issue that affects more than 21 million people worldwide, more than 5 million of them women and children, and it is therefore incumbent on us to do everything we can to address it. First responders must be sensitized in order to ensure that victims, especially women and girls, receive the medical and psychosocial care that they urgently need. The effects on women and girls can be particularly harrowing.

In dark times, this image has a glorious message – resistance is not futile

In dark times, this image has a glorious message – resistance is not futile.pdf

Hillary Clinton: Including Women in Peace Processes Is Strategic and Necessary

Hillary Clinton Including Women in Peace Processes Is Strategic and Necessary.pdf

Call for Papers - CFP Women In War's Annual Conference: Gender in Revolution

This unique conference focusing on women’s revolutionary experiences around the world is calling for papers from Academics, Students, Activists, Women Combattants, Artists, Musicians, and other writers, to establish commonalities and differences in terms of women’s participation and influence.

Call for Papers - CFP Women In War's Annual Conference: Gender in Revolution

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A Feminist Foreign Policy?

A Feminist Foreign Policy?.pdf

Mainstreaming Gender in UN Security Policy: A Path to Political Transformation?

mainstreaminggender.pdf

The Power of Parity: How advancing women’s equality can add $12 trillion to global growth

Powerofparity.pdf

ZeroViolence254 Walk

This initiative by Ripples International is a 1,500 km walk called the ZeroViolence254 Walk. The goal of the walk is to create awareness on electoral and domestic violence and create positive choices in citizenry. 

Read or download the initiative below, or read the original here. 

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