Policy & Advocacy Articles
World Humanitarian Summit: Briefing on Gender Equality in Conflict Settings
The UN Secretary-General’s Report, One Humanity Shared Responsibility, highlights that over 80 per cent of humanitarian assistance, requested by the United Nations, goes towards meeting life-saving needs in conflict settings since major civil wars have...
The Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Where are we now?
It has been 15 years since the United Nations adopted Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000), which recognised the importance of women’s equal and substantive participation as actors for peace and security. Since that time, there have been seven subsequent...
Interim review of the Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security welcomed by the Australian Civil Society Coalition for Women, Peace and Security
On 8 April 2016, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, Minister for Women announced the release of the independent interim review of the Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012-2018 (‘the NAP’), conducted by the independent Humanitarian...
Global Study on Women, Peace and Security
The Security Council recently invited the Secretary General to commission the Global Study on Women, Peace and Security, designed to inform a High Level Review of Women, Peace and Security. There are however, three major reviews being undertaken at the United...