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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INDONESIA: Indonesian Women to the Peace Table

Indonesia is enjoying a period of relative peace and calm as the violent conflicts that wracked the country at the dawn of the country's democratic transition have been resolved, for the most part peacefully.

UGANDA: Women Want Half of Political Positions

Women activists have urged the Government and other political parties to promote gender equality by ensuring that women win 50% of the political seats in next year's general polls.

Over 100 women activists from 13 districts made the call in a report passed on Wednesday at Speke Resort Munyonyo. Women leaders from seven political parties, which included NRM, FDC, DP and JEEMA attended.

LEBANON: Lebanese Women Sending Aid Ship to Gaza

An aid ship transporting medical supplies to Gaza will leave Lebanon in the coming days with dozens of women activists on board, one of the organizers told AFP on Tuesday.

"We are all independent women who believe in breaking the siege on Gaza and are committed to the enmity of the Zionist entity," said Samar Hajj, who is coordinating the trip.

GHANA: Women's Coalition Calls for Immediate Implementation of Affirmative Action Policy

Government has been urged to, as a matter of urgency, implement affirmative action using the quota system to get a critical minority of 30-40 % of women representation both in the District Assembly and Parliament.

BURMA: Honouring Suu Kyi to Condemn Military Election in Burma

The Burmese communities living in different parts of the world have started coordinated demonstrations against the military controlled election in their country.

PAKISTAN: Urdu Translation of Handbook for Women Launched

Aimed at empowering women to take on leadership roles in their families, communities and societies, Aurat Foundation on Monday launched the Urdu translation of an international leadership training handbook for women titled ‘Pasand ki Janib (Leading To Choices).'

HAITI: Haitian Women Regroup, Rebuild

A loose-knit coalition of 106 organizations called Femmes Citoyennes Haiti Solidaire, or Women Citizens Haiti United, has emerged from the devastation of the January earthquake to lobby for women's advancement during the recovery efforts.

INDONESIA: Following in Her Father's Footsteps - Her Way

When Yenny Wahid became an assistant to her father, the former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid, a decade ago, officials asked her to sit separately from him at public events. She was a woman, and sitting next to a man - especially the president - was seen as taboo in the socially conservative country, home of the world's largest Muslim population.

INTERNATIONAL: UN Seeks More Female Police for Peacekeeping Missions

The United Nations is looking for a "few good women" — more than 2,000 to be exact — to serve as police officers in UN peacekeeping missions around the world.

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