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On August 9-10, 2023, over 65 government and civil society representatives gathered in Bangkok, Thailand for the first regional conference of its kind: “Promoting Peaceful and Inclusive Societies in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences in Advancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.” Attendees included several regional and global WPS-HA Compact signatories, including Compact board...
On August 9-10, 2023, over 65 government and civil society representatives gathered in Bangkok, Thailand for the first regional conference of its kind: “Promoting Peaceful and Inclusive Societies in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences in Advancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda.” Attendees included several regional and global WPS-HA Compact signatories, including Compact board...
Together with the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the WPS-HA Compact will be hosting its first regional meeting aimed at advancing action on the Women, Peace and Security agenda. The two-day conference “Promoting Peaceful and Inclusive Societies in Asia and the Pacific: Experiences in Advancing the Women, Peace and Security...
196 signatories have joined the WPS-HA Compact’s bold, global movement for gender equality since its official launch at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris in July 2021. The Compact is multi-stakeholder and intergenerational and aims to reshape peace and security and humanitarian action processes to systematically include women in the decisions that impact their...
On 8 December 2022, the Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action Compact Board convened its first hybrid meeting in Pretoria, South Africa on the margins of the Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network Inter-Regional Meeting. The Board meeting was hosted by the Government of South Africa, a Compact signatory, followed by a working lunch hosted by...
During the UN Security Council’s Open Debate Week, Signatories for the Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPS-HA) unveiled a new monitoring framework which will drive forward accountability on the rights of women and girls in conflict and crisis. Accountability is needed more than ever, participants heard, as women have poured...
WPS-HA Compact Board Member – the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) and Catalytic Members – Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), along with  Kvinna till Kvinna and MADRE supported by UN Women and Member States partnered...
Together with the UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, the WPS-HA Compact will be hosting its first regional meeting aimed at...
196 signatories have joined the WPS-HA Compact’s bold, global movement for gender equality since its official launch at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris...
On 8 December 2022, the Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action Compact Board convened its first hybrid meeting in Pretoria, South Africa on the margins...
During the UN Security Council’s Open Debate Week, Signatories for the Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPS-HA) unveiled a new...