What's In Blue: Women Peace and Security
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Tomorrow (24 October), the Security Council will hold its annual open debate on women, peace and security (WPS), which this year is titled “Women Building Peace in a Changing Environment”. One of the signature events of Switzerland’s October Council presidency,...
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Tomorrow morning (7 August), the Security Council will hold a briefing on “Sustaining women, peace and security commitments in the context of accelerated drawdown of peace operations”. Assistant Secretary-General for Africa in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and...
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Tomorrow afternoon (12 March), Switzerland will convene a Security Council Arria-formula meeting on leveraging the synergies between the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) framework. President of...
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Tomorrow afternoon (11 March), the Security Council will convene for an open briefing on “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question”. Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten is expected to brief....
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This morning (16 January), following the consultations on Yemen, Security Council members will discuss the recent visit to South Sudan by members of the Informal Experts Group (IEG) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). The meeting, which will be held...
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Tomorrow (25 October), the Security Council will hold its annual open debate on women, peace and security (WPS), which this year is titled “Women’s participation in international peace and security: from theory to practice”. One of the signature events of...
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Tomorrow (14 July), the Security Council will convene for its annual open debate on conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), which this year is titled “Promoting Implementation of Security Council Resolutions on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence”. The meeting will be chaired by Lord...
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On Monday (26 June), there will be an Arria-formula meeting on “Enhancing the capacities of member states to ensure a gender responsive approach to counter-terrorism”. The meeting was organised by Malta and co-sponsored by Costa Rica, Jordan, Mexico, Mozambique, New...
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Tomorrow (7 March), the Security Council will hold a ministerial-level open debate on women, peace and security (WPS) titled “Women and peace and security: towards the twenty-fifth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000)”. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic...
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Tomorrow (20 October), the Security Council will hold its annual open debate on women, peace and security (WPS). UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, UN Women Executive Director Sima Sami Bahous, and Special Envoy on WPS of the Chairperson of...
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Tomorrow morning (15 June), the Security Council will hold a ministerial-level open debate on women, peace and security (WPS) titled “Keeping the promises: the role of regional organizations in implementing the women, peace and security agenda in the face of political turmoil and...
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Tomorrow morning (11 April), the Security Council will convene for a briefing on the situation in Ukraine, under the agenda item “Maintenance of Peace and Security of Ukraine”. The meeting will be chaired by Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, UK...
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Tomorrow (8 March), International Women’s Day, the Security Council will hold a ministerial-level open debate on women, peace and security (WPS) titled “Advancing the Women, Peace and Security agenda through partnerships: Women’s economic inclusion and participation as a key to...
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Tomorrow (18 January), the Security Council will hold a ministerial-level open debate on women, peace and security (WPS) titled “Protecting participation: addressing violence targeting women in peace and security processes”. Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt will chair the...
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Tomorrow (10 November), the Security Council will convene for its annual briefing with the heads of police components of UN peace operations. The expected briefers are Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) Police...
