Women and Peace and Security - Security Council, 10175th meeting

Women’s role in peace processes more urgent than ever as violent conflicts multiply, rage across globe, speakers tell Security Council.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 03:06:49
• Production Date: 17 June 2026
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: LEYMAH GBOWEE; SIMA SAMI BAHOUS
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ENTITY FOR GENDER EQUALITY AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN - UN-WOMEN
• Subject Topical: GENDER EQUALITY; INTERNATIONAL LAW; PEACE AND SECURITY; PEACE PROCESS; WOMEN; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; FINANCING; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION
• MAMS Id: 3591556
• Parent Id: 3589465
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 10175 WOMEN PEACE SECURITY 17 JUN 2026 AM PART 1

Description

As conflicts multiply and women remain largely absent from peace negotiations, senior United Nations officials, civil society and Member States today urged the Security Council to move beyond rhetoric and make women’s participation in peace processes funded and non-negotiable, warning that peace built without women is “only a pause in violence”.

“Gender equality and women’s empowerment is among the most powerful approaches to achieving peace,” said Sima Bahous, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), as she opened day-long debate on the topic. “When women are safe, nations are more peaceful,” she added.

More than two decades after the adoption of Council resolution 1325 (2000), evidence continues to show that women’s inclusion reduces violence, strengthens peacekeeping, improves accountability and makes peace agreements more likely to last, she explained. Yet, she warned, women remain excluded from diplomacy even as conflicts and crises spread across Afghanistan, Haiti, Myanmar, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan and Ukraine.

Speakers:

• Sima Bahous, Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
• Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Peace Laureate and Founder and President of the Gbowee Peace Foundation-Africa
• Kaavya Asoka, Executive Director of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security

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