🎯The #WPS consultation assesses progress, challenges & opportunities in advancing #WPS across🌍.🤲, we are defining priorities (2025–2030), strengthen ♀️’s leadership in peacebuilding & enhance #FemWiseAfrica. The outcomes will inform the @AU_Study on WPS implementation in🌍

This consultation is a pivotal moment to turn commitments into action. Let’s uphold '#WomenLead. #PeaceFollows'- not just as a slogan, but as a blueprint for change - Amb. Akok Madut, Ph.D. African Union Political Affairs Peace and Security #WPS #UNSCR1325 #AUPeace #SilencingTheGuns

Strengthening 🤝for a peaceful & inclusive🌍! Representatives from African Union, GPSP, MDD, #FemWiseAfrica, OSE & AU Member States gathered in Cotonou to enhance coordination on #WPS, #UNSCR1325 & #SilencingTheGuns. Together, we’re turning policy into action for lasting change

Over 2 days in Cotonou, African Union & member states will assess progress, interrogate the #WPS pillars, & identify transformative strategies to bridge the gap between policy & action. (1/3)

As we mark 25 years of #UNSCR1325, Africa faces urgent challenges: digital threats, rising gender-based violence, backlash against equality, & systemic barriers like underfunding & exclusion of women in peace processes. (2/3)

This consultation will redefine priorities (2025–2030), amplify grassroots women’s leadership, & strengthen #FemWiseAfrica to ensure #WPS delivers real impact. (3/3) #WPSAfrica2025 #Agenda2063 #AUPeace

Key expectations: 💠Decentralizing #FemWiseAfrica 💠Defining 2025–2030 priorities aligned with regional/global frameworks💠Boosting knowledge-sharing & best practices on #WPS reporting 💠Enhancing AU-Member State coordination for impactful action #SilencingTheGuns #Agenda2063

Opening the #WPS Coordination Meeting by: 💠Ms. Agnes Badou Savi, Deputy Director of Cabinet, on behalf of the Minister of Social Affairs & Microfinance of 🇧🇯 💠Amb. Akok Madut, Ph.D. , on behalf of Amb. Amb. Bankole Adeoye of African Union Political Affairs Peace and Security #UNSCR1325 #SilencingTheGuns

“As we celebrate Pan-African Women’s Day, I call upon all stakeholders to join us in advancing reparative justice for African women, recognizing this not only as a moral imperative, but also as a strategic necessity for achieving Africa’s development agenda” - H.E. Mahmoud Ali

As we shape the Africa of our dreams, African women stand at the vanguard of our values, courage, and struggle. Today, as we stand on the shoulders of great African women, let us walk forward—heads held high—in solidarity with the women of Africa. #AfricaWomenDay

#WPS Meeting in Cotonou 🇧🇯 wraps up! Key outcomes: 🔹 Stronger African Union & Member State pledges for #UNSCR1325 🔹 Bold 2025-2030 strategies to advance #WPSAgenda 🔹 Better coordination for delivery Turning commitments into action! #Agenda2063 #SilencingTheGuns"

📢 Press Release: African Union and Member States Chart Path for Women, Peace, and Security (#WPS) Agenda and Highlight #NationalProgress in #Cotonou Meeting 🔗 peaceau.org/en/article/au-… #WPS #AUPeace #UNSCR1325 #Agenda2063 #SilencingTheGuns

📢 Communiqué de presse : L'Union Africaine et ses États membres tracent la voie pour l'Agenda Femmes, Paix et Sécurité et dressent le bilan des progrès nationaux à #Cotonou 🔗 peaceau.org/fr/article/l-u… #WPS #AUPeace #UNSCR1325 #Agenda2063 #SilencingTheGuns

The African Union has been awarded with the inaugural Leo Tolstoy International Peace Prize, delivered by Russian Ambassador H.E. E. Terekhin. This acknowledgment is welcome and appreciated, as it recognizes the AU's efforts for sustainable #Peace and Security on the continent.

Statement by the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on the Tragic Helicopter Crash in #Ghana. The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf Mahmoud Ali youssouf , has learned with deep sorrow of the tragic helicopter crash in the Ashanti Region of

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From #DRC to #Sudan, #Myanmar to #Gaza, wars are waged on the bodies of women and girls. At the #UNSC Open Debate on #CRSV, we call on Member States to defend women's human rights and demand an end to all forms of #SGBV. Read our full recs: wps.ngo/MAP08-2025

In eastern #DRC, ongoing violence and mass displacement have put women and girls at ever greater risk of #CRSV, while severe funding cuts and limited humanitarian access have left survivors with little access to essential services.

In #Sudan, #CRSV against women and girls has become a hallmark of the war, enabled by the absence of civilian protection and the illegal flow of arms. #KeepEyesOnSudan

#Palestinian women and girls in #Gaza face unprecedented levels of reproductive violence due to Israel’s blockade of aid and systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive health infrastructure.