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UN PhotoLeveraging the synergies between the CEDAW and the Women, Peace and Security Framework - UN Security Council Arria Formula Meeting
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The Arria Formula Meeting will provide an opportunity to: 1) Identify best practice in leveraging the synergies between CEDAW and the WPS framework. 2) Strengthen accountability for implementation of the WPS framework and CEDAW. 3) Highlight the potential of CEDAW as a tool to support women's participation in peace processes.
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The Security Council's work on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) recognizes that peace can only be sustainable, if women are fully included. Implementing this pioneer agenda requires political will, as well as the tools to encourage, support and measure action undertaken by member states in this regard, to enhance accountability.
Understanding the linkages between the CEDAW and the WPS framework can be challenging for governments and civil society stakeholders. Gaining a better understanding of the synergies between the two mechanisms will enable States Parties not only to use CEDAW more effectively as a tool to strengthen the implementation of the WPS Agenda. It will also help improving accountability through reporting on progress made and remaining challenges.
- How can synergies with other tools, such as CEDAW be leveraged to support the effective implementation of the Women, Peace and Security framework in the UN Security Council?
- What are successful strategies and examples of leveraging these synergies to increase women's participation in peace processes?
- What are the barriers to using the tools CEDAW offers more efficiently and what could be done to overcome these?
- Ms. Sima Bahous, Executive Director of UN Women.
- Ms. Ana Pelaez Narvaez, Chair of the CEDAW Committee.
- Civil society representative (tbc).