Alaa Murabit, Founding President of the Voice of Libyan Women, discusses the challenges facing youth, and young women in particular, and how the multilateral system can respond.
Tag: women peace and security
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According to Saba Ismail, co-founder and Executive Director of Aware Girls—a youth-led organization working for women’s empowerment and gender equality in Pakistan—young women are in turn the group most excluded from peacebuilding.
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What cannot be doubted is that more than half the population in Myanmar has had little formal opportunity to engage in the peace or parliamentary process.
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Executive Director of UN Women Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka discusses progress on women’s empowerment.
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New evidence shared in a recent IPI report, Reimagining Peacemaking, shows that when women are able to influence a peace process, a peace agreement is almost always reached and the agreement is more likely to be implemented.
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Anne Marie Goetz, Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, discusses progress on women’s rights during the past two decades.
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Irene Santiago, Lead Convener of Women Seriously, says a social and political movement must push the United Nations to increase the role of women in peace and security.
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Bineta Diop, African Union Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security, discusses her dream of gender parity and ending violence against women and girls in Africa.
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Dr. Saisuree Chutikul said research has shown there are many benefits to increasing the involvement of women in peacekeeping, particularly when it comes to dealing with other women.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof discusses the benefits of building a grassroots movement to end discrimination against women and girls.
