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23 March 2021New Publication: Women, Peace and Security in Northeast Asia
2020 marked a milestone for the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda. The year was not only characterized by the 20th anniversary of the UN Security...
11 February 2021What are the UN System-Wide Community Engagement Guidelines? Overview and Next Steps
The Community Engagement Guidelines (CEG) are a manual for the UN actors operating in the field. However, it is also an opportunity for civil society...
11 November 2020Reflecting on Women, Peace and Security in 2020
2020 has been a milestone year for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. In October, UN Security Council Resolution 1325 celebrated its twentieth...
17 June 2020Webinar: The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on human security in Georgia
This webinar will focus on the results of the field research done about the gender dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on human security...
6 March 2020More than a day for flowers: The story of a woman peacebuilder
Four days of protests in Kyrgyzstan’s Southern city of Osh, fueled by wealth inequalities, alleged political corruption and the underrepresentation of...
5 February 2020Marching towards inclusion in Sudan
Economic hardship and the rising cost of living has wreaked havoc in Sudan. In the name of a better quality of life, the people of Sudan have united...
26 November 2019Women’s Perspective on Regional Peacebuilding
Women peacebuilders play a unique role by contributing to the articulation of a ‘people-centred – bottom-up’ perspective that is often missing in...
25 November 2019Redesign the Table for Sustainable Peace & Security
GPPAC gender experts gathered in New York from the 26th to 31st October, to mark years of work Shifting the Power to women peacebuilders preventing...
31 July 2019Pakistan: the Rising Voices of Young Women
South Asia is home to one-quarter of the world’s population out of which 30 percent are youth. Especially, Pakistan is breaking a record in terms of...
25 June 2019Sustaining Peace is Inclusive and Inter-Generational
It’s time to make the table bigger if we want to build on the legacy of the women’s movement in sustaining peace in the Pacific. This means bringing...
25 April 2019The Leaders of Today: The 63rd Commission on the Status of Women
When women are empowered, societies are safer, more resilient, and more prosperous. Recognising and acting upon the idea that gender equality is not a...
4 December 2018GPPAC: Women Are Paramount to Peacebuilding
Although women have always been involved in peace and security, origins of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) framework can be traced back to the...