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UN PhotoEqual participation and leadership for a more peaceful world: Lessons learned and the way forward (CSW68 Side Event)
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For over two decades, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has stressed the importance of women's leadership and their empowerment to achieve and sustain peace. Gender equality in decision-making is also a human rights imperative, a democratic imperative and a key element of sustainable development.
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Gender parity at all levels and across sectors has now become a common target – from national parliaments and governments to the CEDAW Committee and Generation Equality's Action Coalition on Feminist Movements and Leadership. Beyond numbers, gender parity in decision‑making also implies equal voice and power so that decisions made by deliberative bodies and processes are fully inclusive and therefore legitimate, effective and responsive to the needs of everyone. Likewise, peace processes are most genuine and likely to lead to sustainable peace if women are meaningfully involved.
Participants will be invited to reflect and share experiences on the following:
- What good practices exist when it comes to constitutional and electoral law reform, legislating on incentives for political parties/governments and international norms change, with the aim of achieving gender parity in local, national and international bodies?
- How to create an environment that is conducive to gender parity in decision-making and women's participation in all their diversity? How to break down stereotypes and open up the space for women in a male-dominated political environment?
- Beyond the numbers, how can institutions and decision-making processes promote equal power and gender-responsive outcomes? What is the key to women's full and equal participation, leadership and influence at all levels, including in peace processes?
CSW68 Side Event organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), in collaboration with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) / CEDAW Committee, Generation Equality's Action Coalition on Feminist Movements and Leadership, GQUAL, the International Gender Champions (IGC), and the Permanent Missions of Ireland and Switzerland.