Today is the International Women Human Rights Defenders Day. 📣We call for stronger protection mechanisms to prevent and eliminate violence, harassment, threats, intimidation & discrimination against women human rights defenders & women’s rights advocates. #PushForward #16Days

#PeaceTables Women working for women to build peace and the #WPS agenda is enforced. Launching of the #PeaceHouse to celebrate 16th Days of Activism in Reach Out today.

📢Join us tomorrow at 10am GMT for an event that will explore practical interventions to ending violence against women and girls across the #Commonwealth. Speakers include Patricia Scotland KC and experts from NO MORE, Hestia & WOW - Women of the World. Register👇🏾 #CommonwealthSaysNOMORE

Don't miss this event! 🚨 On 5 December from 1-2:30pm EST, join GNWP, SwitzerlandUN & ICT4Peace Foundation for the launch of new research on #WomenPeaceCybersecurity 📚🚺☮️💻! Hear from women peacebuilders 🕊️ & digital experts on national cybersecurity strategies 🌐➡️bit.ly/WomenPeaceCybe…

Today we shine light on all women that are victims of online violence. Women and girls that bare the brunt of this horrible crime. Women speaking against discrimination, peacebuilders, politicians, journalists, etc YOU ARE HEROES👏👏 #I6DaysofActivism #EndViolenceAgainstWomen

Today is #MeetOurMediatorsDay Emma Leslie an Australian - Cambodian, director of the Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies. Since 1993 she has been committed to the field of conflict transformation across the Asia region. Meet Emma👇🏽 womenmediators.org/find-a-mediato…

We are with our colleagues and friends from the WPS Focal Points Network in spirit who currently meet in Pretoria to discuss innovation and action on #WomenPeaceSecurity. We have actively supported the network over the past year and look forward to more.

🌍WPS Focal Points Network meeting in Pretoria🇿🇦 🟧 4⃣3⃣ countries represented ✅Two days of engagement, learning, debate, collaboration, partnership and friendship across countries & regions to advance practical action on women, peace and security.

We welcome the new ICAI review of the UK's approach to #peacebuilding, which shows there have been meaningful contributions to ending & preventing violent conflict, but there needs to be more reliable & long-term funding for peacebuilding work to achieve it’s potential.

Today is #MeetOurMediatorsDay Mable Chawinga is a community level mediator from Ethiopia. She has experience in managing community disagreements on land disputes, gender-based violence, sexual violence against adolescent girls & young women. womenmediators.org/find-a-mediato…

Ninety-six per cent of people surveyed for a recent LSE WPS report on the criminalisation of sex buying believe that legislation has made sex workers more unsafe and more vulnerable to exploitation. ⬇️ Read about the report from Niina Vuolajärvi (LSE European Institute) bit.ly/3uyCI9j

NEW: Women, men & people of diverse gender identities and sexual orientations experience the impacts of #ClimateChange differently. Here, Amy Dwyer and Gabriel Nuckhir examine how gender can help us understand the links between climate change & conflict: bit.ly/3BqQjDa

📺 Happening now! Tune in below ⬇️ for today's United Nations Peacebuilding Peacebuilding Commission ambassadorial-level meeting on #WPS to hear from GNWP CEO Mavic CabreraBalleza + others on the importance of women's 🚺 participation in peacebuilding and peacekeeping🕊️ 🔗media.un.org/en/asset/k1c/k…

📍Day 2 in Bujumbura In working groups, participants reflected on Article 8,9,10 and 17 of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance in relation to the country's context & situation.

Today is #MeetOurMediatorsDay Sabrina Mowlah-Baksh holds a MSc in Gender & Development Studies & has worked with women and communities for over 30 years. She was the former chair of the Women's Institute for Alternative Development in Trinidad & Tobago womenmediators.org/find-a-mediato…

Governing Masculinity: A Call for Contributions 2 day conference Queen Mary University of London 21-22 Feb 2024. Contributions invited in 3 formats: academic papers, reports from the field, creative media. Deadline for abstracts: 4 Sept 2023. Full details & submission info buff.ly/3DDZr8f

A person's day to day life affects their relationship to reconciliation. Angelika Rettberg 's research shows that people in less secure contexts economically are less willing to engage in dialogue than those who are in a stable economic situation. buff.ly/44Qa6Jb

This paper presents analysis of 5 Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Hubs & their partnership evaluations, methods & how they unearthed & addressed power asymmetries to create equitable partnerships. It makes recs for a framework of equitable partnerships & evaluation measures. buff.ly/3naVVxw

At the annual meeting of Global Alliance of GlobalWomenMediators on 11-12 Dec 2023 at the African Union Commission the WMC Women Mediators Across the Commonwealth emphasized on joint strategies for mediation to address violent conflicts around the world Southeast Asian Women Peace Mediators Elizabeth Solomon Omam Esther Meredith Preston McGhie

Joint Statement by Women Mediators Across the Commonwealth & Southeast Asian Women Peace Mediators Mediators Networks #PeaceBuilding #CeasefireForPeace #Israel #Palestine #HumanRightsForAll #ProtectionOfCivilians #WomenAndChildrenFirst Quhramaana Elizabeth Solomon Emma Leslie Meredith Preston McGhie Neha Sanghrajka Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE now on Blue Sky