The United Nations’ Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda suffers from an ongoing burden: the need for less talk and more action. Invariably, several speakers raise this issue at the Security Council’s annual Open Debate on WPS. But we are now experiencing a very concerning backslide. The Security Council passed the first WPS resolution, UNSCR 1325, on 31 October 2000, after much collaboration with feminist civil society organisations. It was a natural evolution of the women and armed conflict objective of the Beijing Platform for Action, which was developed from the UN’s world conferences on women. By late 2000, there was enough momentum to get UNSCR 1325 off the ground. This was helped by a highly successful international workshop on gender and peacekeeping hosted by Namibia, which at the time held the UN Security Council presidency.
Reflecting on 25 years of UNSC Resolution 1325 | The Strategist
