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A full view of the mural— it symbolizes the changes which the world will undergo because of the efforts of the UN, and of mankind in general, to achieve peace, equality and freedom. This mural was a gift from Norway
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01 August 1985

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"Malgre tout...la resolution sur la Cote d'lvoire 1633 adoptee par le Conseil du Securite le 21 octobre 2005 ne fait aucune mention du role des femmes ni les considerations de genre. Pourquoi?"


"Despite everything...the resolution on the Cote d'Ivoire 1633 adopted by the Security Council on 21 October 2005 makes no mention of the role of women nor any consideration of gender. Why?"

Quote from Statement to the United Nations Security Council by Hélène Dandi Lou, Regional Advisor, West Africa of the Network of African Women for Peace, Côte d'Ivoire

Across the world, continued violence threatens the future of millions of women and their communities. The international community has recognized the valuable contribution women make to conflict prevention and sustainable peacebuilding. However, women and gender considerations are still largely absent from the structures that make the decisions to sustain peace or engage in conflict. As a key catalyst in advocacy for the integration of gender perspectives in all peace and security, conflict prevention, conflict management and peacebuilding initiatives of the United Nations, the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, via its strategic positioning in New York at United Nations headquarters, plays an important global role in monitoring policy and practice on women, peace and security. Together with its growing network of gender and security experts, the coalition has built a constituency of women, peace and security advocates among UN Member States, high-level UN decision makers, and civil society working on peacebuilding initiatives at the national and local levels.

Accountability Needed for SCR 1325

16 October 2007

In advocacy efforts leading up to the October Security Council Open Debate, Working Group members, led by the PeaceWomen project, prepared an Issue Brief on accountability which discusses gaps and challenges in implementing 1325 and provides recommendations for stronger implementing mechanisms.
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SCR 1325 and Financing for Gender Equality – 52nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

25 February 2008

Despite laudable efforts by many women's groups, Member States and United Nations actors, the lack of dedicated regular budgetary funds allocated to ensure the broad implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 continues to impede women's equal participation in conflict prevention, management and conflict resolution in post-conflict peacebuilding peacemaking and peacebuilding processes.
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PBC Mission to Burundi Encouraged to Meet with Women Peacebuilders

7 March 2007

On the occasion of the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission's upcoming missions to Burundi, the NGO Working on Women, Peace and Security requests that the Mission take this opportunity to meet with leading women peacebuilders from Burundian civil society to discuss how their needs and priorities can be better addressed through the work of the PBC in Burundi.
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