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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Infographic of Women in Politics 2017

WomeninPolitics.pdf

Profiles of Women Who Are Making An Impact

Fear and Hope in Peshawar.pdf

Without global solidarity the women’s movement will collapse

Without global solidarity the women’s movement will collapse.pdf

UNDP Guidance Note on Constitution-Making Support

Constitution-Making-Support-Guidance-Note.pdf

OPEN LETTER TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL FROM WILPF AND MENA WOMEN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS (ARABIC)

SG-Letter-30.03.2017-Ar.pdf

OPEN LETTER TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL FROM WILPF AND MENA WOMEN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS (ENGLISH)

SG-Letter-30.03.2017-Eng.pdf

At the #CSW61, WILPF raises issues of #MissingVoices to the highest level

Today is the last day of the 61st session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW61), a UN forum that is usually a global mobilising space for women’s rights. But this year the CSW was different.

The impact of the US travel ban

AT THE #CSW61, WILPF RAISES ISSUE OF #MISSINGVOICES TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL

csw61.pdf

Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury: 'If We are Serious About Peace and Development, We Must Take Women Seriously'

The article below is an opinion piece on the 61st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW 61) written by Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury. Among other issues, Chowdhury discusses the main key gaps on the path to gender equality, including economic inequality and lack of available funding for women's civil society, and proposes ways to change patriarchal cultures to address these gaps.

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