Another #FPNTokyo breakout session shed light on the role of women in peace mediation and peacebuilding, and as human rights defenders.
The session reflected the reality and the response faced by mediator actors.
#WPSFocalPoints#WPSat25#WPS
Continuing the conversation at #FPNTokyo
Powerful reflections and key takeaways from yesterday's discussions including on ongoing conflicts.
Participants are identifying actionable solutions that drive meaningful progress for the #WPS agenda.
Women are #BuildingPeace around the world!🌎
As we mark Women, Peace & Security #WPS Month, time to share timeless Women Mediator Networks messages on women's vital role in building sustainable peace ⬇️
#APlusForPeace🕊️
#WomenBuildingPeace
Women's participation in #peace processes is crucial for sustainable 🕊. Concluding 2️⃣ days of solution-oriented discussions at the #WomenMediatorNetworks retreat.
“This is the moment to critically reflect on our approaches to peace mediation and the participation of women in peace processes” : @SwissPeaceHR, @swiss_un & @UN_Women engage with #WomenMediators to strengthen women’s role in 🕊️ processes.
There can be no lasting peace without women’s participation🕊️
We must keep #WomenPeaceandSecurity high on the #UNSC agenda. As Co-Chairs of the #WPS Informal Expert Working Group,🇨🇭&🇦🇪, with penholder🇬🇧, are committed to the inclusion of WPS in all areas of work of the UNSC.
“Translating the WPS Agenda into action”
🇨🇭 is looking back at an eventful year as co-chair of the
@WPSFocalPoints Network with 🇿🇦. @SwissPeaceHR was proud to work with @DIRCO_ZA on concrete measures for implementation.
🇨🇭 remains committed to #WPS as 🇺🇳 UNSC member 2023-24
🌍@WPSFocalPoints meeting in Pretoria🇿🇦
🟧 4⃣3⃣ countries represented
✅Two days of engagement, learning, debate, collaboration, partnership and friendship across countries & regions to advance practical action on women, peace and security.
Working group facilitators at @WPSFocalPoints Meeting in Pretoria present outcomes of their discussions addressing
✅Women’s Participation in Peace Processes
✅WPS Action Plans: Sustaining Financing & Civil Society Engagement
✅Sub/Regional Orgs & Strengthening WPS Collaboration
The @WPSFocalPoints Meeting "Taking Practical Action to Implement the #WPS Agenda through Inter-Regional Cooperation" is coming to a close. Speakers wrap up the discussions that took place over the past 2️⃣ days and move forward with a strong commitment to collaboration & action.
Wrapping up the Interregional Meeting of the
@WPSFocalPoints Network in 📍 Pretoria.
🇨🇭 thanks 🇿🇦 for the great spirit of cooperation during our co-chairship in 2022, thanks #UNWomen for its support and congratulates the 🇺🇸 to its co-chair for 2023.
🔶Women, peace and security #WPS should be at the heart of discussions during #UNGA because global peace requires women's full, equal and meaningful participation in all peace efforts.
🤝JOIN @WPSFocalPoints on:
📌September 22 | 10:15 EDT
🖊️Register https://t.co/2SMZDaoR0K
📢Join us 🤝for the @WPSFocalPoints high-level #UNGA side event hosted by 🇨🇭🇿🇦🇨🇦🇺🇾 and @UN_Women on Translating the #WPS Agenda into Action. This will be a follow-up to the Geneva Meeting.
📌September 22nd | 10:15 EDT
🖊️Register https://t.co/2SMZDaoR0K
🔶Women’s underrepresentation at decision-making levels in politics, diplomacy and in the security sector – the source from which negotiators and mediators are oftentimes drawn – is intrinsically linked to the lack of women’s meaningful participation in peace processes.
In her concluding remarks at the @WPSFocalPoints' 4th Meeting in🇨🇭@CharloteLobe 🇿🇦's WPS Focal Point highlighted that the future is female & young, any plans without them is not futuristic, hence the need for 🇿🇦 to continue the work started in 🇳🇦 in 2019 on the 🔗 btwn WPS & YPS.
#InternationalWomensDay: 3 questions to Talia Wohl, 🇨🇭 @WPSFocalPoints representative. #Switzerland's priorities as 2022 co-chair with @DIRCO_ZA 🇿🇦: #Women's active participation in conflict prevention and peace processes & protection of their rights 🕊️ https://t.co/ZZk3euDCYr