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RADICAL CHANGE OF DIRECTION’ NEEDED IN

WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY AGENDA

Selected by Odette FOUDRAL

Sima Sami Bahous (left at table), Executive Director of UN Women, briefs the
Security Council meeting on Women and peace and security.
UN Photo/Manuel Elías
New goals and effective plans on it is obvious that we need a radical
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women’s involvement in peacebuilding are change of direction,” she said .
needed before it is too late, the head of No significant change
the UN agency leading global efforts to
achieve gender equality warned the She said the 20th anniversary "was not a
Security Council on Tuesday. celebration, but a wake-up call," pointing
to situations from across the globe that
Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN have emerged since then.
Women , was speaking during a Council
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meeting to reaffirm the importance of They include the regression of women’s
Resolution 1325 on women, peace and and girls’ rights in Afghanistan in the wake
security, adopted in October 2000, and to of the Taliban takeover, sexual violence
take stock of implementation since it committed in the war in the Tigray region
turned 20 nearly three years ago. in Ethiopia, and online abuse targeting
women opposing military rule in
“As we meet today at the mid-point Myanmar.
between the 20th and 25th anniversaries,
on the eve of International Women’s Day , Women and children also comprise a
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staggering 90 per cent of the nearly eight
million people forced to flee the conflict in

1 https://www.unwomen.org/en 3 https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-
2 https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens- stories/speech/2023/03/speech-we-need-a-
day radical-change-of-direction

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