Women, Peace and Security: Civil Society’s Role in Building UNSCR 1325: Webinar 1

Women, Peace and Security: Civil Society’s Role in Building UNSCR 1325

2020 is an important year of anniversaries for setting in place bold agendas for women’s rights and gender equality - 25 years since the Fourth World Conference in Beijing (1995) and 20 years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on women, peace and security (WPS) in 2000. The WPS agenda is anchored in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action with strategic actions outlined under “Women and armed conflict” and with specific reference to women in crisis situations and young women.
 
Women's civil society organisations, activists and human rights defenders played a critical role in building the Beijing Platform for Action and in continuing work to realise change for women’s rights. Civil society, particularly women’s groups - including the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) - advocated for the creation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000 and continue to play a significant role in implementing the holistic aims of the WPS Agenda.
 
What do we learn when we look back to women’s civil society actions in 1995 and 2000, that moves us to look forward to implementation of the WPS agenda in 2020 and the future?
 
Felicity Ruby is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. Her research is focused on transnational political movements resisting mass surveillance. She has been a political adviser to Senator Scott Ludlam, Greenpeace International, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). She is co-editor of A Secret Australia Revealed by the WikiLeaks Exposés which will be released on 1 December 2020.
 
Dr Ludmilla Kwitko has worked on women, peace and security and gender equality, international aid and development issues over the last 30 years, with donors, governments, multilateral organisations and civil society, as an adviser, practitioner, policy analyst and researcher. Ludmilla is currently Associate Professor (Honorary) at the Gender Institute, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. She is also a Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Australia Board member.
 
SEND YOUR QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE TO: wps@wilpf.org.au
 
 
All webinars will be recorded.
 
Proudly co-sponsored by the The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Australia and the ANU Gender Institute

Date & time

Tue 29 Sep 2020, 5.30–6.30pm

Location

Online event

Speakers

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Australia

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Updated:  15 December 2020/Responsible Officer:  Convenor, Gender Institute/Page Contact:  Gender Institute