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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Why a Feminist Foreign Policy Is Needed More than Ever

Why a Feminist Foreign Policy Is Needed More than Ever - Inter Press Service.pdf

Women’s Meaningful Participation: The Missing Ingredient at CSW61

Women’s Meaningful Participation- The Missing Ingredient at CSW61.pdf

When Important Voices Become #MISSINGVOICES

This initiative by WILPF explains its decision to not participate in CSW61. The travel ban prevented several women in conflict-affected countries from shaping policies and encouraging meaningful participation, which happens every year during CSW.     

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

When Important Voices Become #MISSINGVOICES

When Important Voices Become.pdf

Status of Women in the United Nations System

StatusofwomeninUN2016.pdf

Gender Disparity at UN: Three Out of 71, Zero out of Nine

Gender Disparity at UN.pdf

Displacement & Women's Needs in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia

RefugeeInternationalfieldreportColombia.pdf

A guide for NGOs and Women's Human Rights Activists at the UN and CSW

This NGO guide will help build the capacity of NGOs and women’s human rights activists to advocate for the rights and empowerment of women and girls. The UN Commission on the Status of Women, the main UN body responsible for gender equality and women’s empowerment, is the main case study.

A GUIDE FOR NGOs AND WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AT THE UN AND CSW

NGO-Main-Guide-2017_0221-FINAL-1.pdf

CSO Initiative: No Borders on Gender Justice

The organizations MADRE, Just Associates (JASS), Center for Women’s Global Leadership, AWID, Urgent Action Fund, Women in Migration Network and Outright Action International created an initiative to develop and share strategies of resistance to stand in solidarity with the women who could not attend CSW because they come from conflict-affected areas because of the United States' Executive Travel Ban, and to reassert that women’s rights are hum

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