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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CSW61: Annotated provisional agenda and proposed organization of work

Provisional agenda:

1. Election of officers.

2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

3. Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”:

CSW61: Annotated provisional agenda and proposed organization of work

CSW61_Provisional_Agenda.pdf

Is gender equality destined to remain our perpetual aspirational dream?

Is gender equality destined to remain our perpetual aspirational dream.pdf

Improving the quality of non-standard jobs helps women

Improving the quality of non.pdf

Top 10 moments for women’s rights in 2016: Inspiration for the year ahead

Top 10 moments for women’s rights in 2016.pdf

Statement of the President of the Security Council on the Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 4, 2017

On January 4 2016 the Security Council issued a Presidential Statement concerning the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The statement welcomes the signing of the December 31 Peace Agreement, calls for its swift implementations and reaffirms its commitments to the independence and unity of the DRC. The statement further emphasised the need to engage women in the "follow up and implementation" of the agreement. 

Statement of the President of the Security Council on the Situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 4, 2017

DRC Presidential Statement January 4 2017.pdf

Eight Recommendations For the II National Action Plan On Women, Peace And Security of Spain – Analysis

RecommendationsWPS.pdf

Terms of Reference: the Security Council mission to South Sudan and Addis Ababa in September 2016

N1627609 (1).pdf

SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT S/PRST/2016/5

“The Security Council reiterates that resuming Yemen’s peaceful political transition to a democratically-governed State, in line with the GCC initiative, should be guided by a new constitution and the holding of parliamentary and presidential elections, and conducted in an inclusive manner involving the full participation of all of Yemen’s diverse communities, including all regions of the country, youth, and the full and effective participatio

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