Headline : New Agenda for Peace Must Include Women

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“For all we know about the impact conflict has on women and girls, there is so much that never cracks the surface,” said Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield.

Last summer, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres introduced the New Agenda for Peace, a policy brief outlining his vision for the future of multilateralism and the UN’s work on peace and security in a changing world. That policy brief “focuses on how women’s participation is linked to efforts to prevent conflict,” said Rosemary DiCarlo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs. “Simply put, without half the population participating and deciding, there cannot be sustainable peace.”

In Mid-March, leaders from around the world met during the UN’s 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women. They discussed how “best to advance gender equity and protect and promote the fundamental freedoms and rights of all,” said U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield. And she noted that “all of this critical work hinges on one thing: Peace.”

“Everything we do to empower women, everything women do to empower themselves, is eroded by conflict. Because we know that women and girls are disproportionately impacted by conflict, by displacement, food insecurity, sexual violence, by all of the horrors of war,” she said.

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