2024 Open Letter to Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in advance of the annual Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security

In advance of the October 2024 Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security, this open letter was sent to UN Member States on behalf of 628 civil society signatories from 110 countries working on issues related to gender equality and women’s rights, peace and security, human rights, humanitarian assistance, and protection of civilians. The letter calls on the Security Council and Member States to take decisive action to protect women’s rights in conflicts and crises around the world.

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Dear Ambassadors,

Ahead of this year’s annual open debate on women, peace and security (WPS), and one year before the 25th anniversary of Resolution 1325 (2000), we write to you as civil society organizations dedicated to peace, women’s rights and gender equality to urge you to redouble your efforts to fulfill the highest ideals of the WPS agenda.

Today, we are confronted with record levels of armed conflict, militarization and military spending, which undermine gender equality, threaten to reverse decades of progress on women’s rights, and jeopardize global efforts for peace. Women and marginalized groups bear the brunt of conflicts and crises, including conflict-related sexual violence, poverty, forced displacement and hunger. Increased militarization has been accompanied by multi-pronged assaults on universal norms, especially international human rights and humanitarian law; on women human rights defenders and civil society space; and on democracy itself. Further, an escalating global backlash against gender justice and the human rights and bodily autonomy of women and LGBTQIA+[1] people, compounded by their systematic exclusion from international decision-making and peacemaking, means that those most adversely affected by armed conflict are also those whose voices are most marginalized.

The WPS agenda’s vision of peace and equality[2] has never been so important — or so under threat.

The cost of the international community’s failure to fully implement the WPS agenda over the past 24 years can be measured in lives lost, rights denied and conflicts prolonged. Yet, feminist movements continue to fight back against misogyny and repression for a more just and peaceful future. They refuse to accept anything less than their rights — and neither should you.

The UN Security Council cannot afford to let another anniversary pass without meaningful progress on protecting women’s rights in conflict. We therefore urge you to take decisive action in the following 10 areas and implement them in all crises on its agenda[3]:

  1. Prevent, avert and end conflict. Ending violence is the most effective means to protect the rights of women and girls in all conflicts and crises. As enshrined in the UN Charter, it is the primary responsibility of the Security Council to maintain peace and security. Conflict prevention requires addressing the gendered drivers of conflict, including patriarchy; all forms of inequality, including socioeconomic inequality; multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination; exclusion; and violation of human rights. There is no situation in which gender equality and women’s rights are not relevant. We therefore urge the Security Council to ensure that the rights of women and girls are fundamental to all international peace and security processes, including its own decisions, without exception. Further, the Council must uphold international human rights and humanitarian law, and all relevant Security Council resolutions, including on WPS, and step up preventive diplomacy to ensure inclusive, gender-responsive, long-term and peaceful resolution to all conflicts.
  2. Reform the Security Council. The credibility of the Security Council to meaningfully fulfill its mandate has been fundamentally shaken by its inability to effectively address conflicts, including, most recently, Israel’s brutal war in Gaza and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, both of which have had devastating consequences for the rights of women and marginalized communities. We urge you to commit to Security Council reform in order to build a more representative, transparent, democratic and accountable multilateral system that can effectively deliver on the UN Charter’s promise of peace. This should include credible, timely and decisive Security Council action to prevent or end the commission of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and lead to ending the use of the veto on resolutions aimed at stopping mass atrocities. We further urge you to sign the Accountability, Coherence and Transparency Group’s Code of Conduct, thereby pledging not to vote against a credible draft resolution before the Security Council aimed at stopping such crimes.
  3. Stop arms transfers when there is a substantial risk that they may be used to “commit or facilitate serious acts of gender-based violence or serious acts of violence against women and children,” or if Member States have knowledge or should have known at the time of authorization that they would be used in the commission of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, attacks directed against civilians or civilian objects, or other war crimes, in line with the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Compliance with obligations and norms on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation[4] is critical to conflict prevention, and backsliding on disarmament commitments risks future violence. States have a legal obligation to comply with arms embargoes imposed by the Security Council. We further urge you to cut military spending and instead increase funding for gender equality and global humanitarian responses to ensure no needs go unmet.
  4. Defend women’s human rights. Women’s civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, as enshrined in international law and Security Council resolutions, are the foundation of the WPS agenda.[5] The Security Council must therefore center human rights, especially the rights of women, girls and LGBTQIA+ people, in all peace and security discussions, processes and decisions; take coordinated action to counter gender backlash; and reject any outcomes that undermine women’s rights. Council members must also consistently, and publicly, demand that warring parties and other relevant actors immediately abolish any laws, policies or practices that prevent or restrict the full enjoyment of women’s human rights in accordance with international standards.
  5. Advance reproductive justice. Reproductive autonomy, and the right to live in safe, peaceful and sustainable communities, is essential for women in conflicts and crises everywhere. We urge Security Council members to protect and uphold sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in accordance with international standards, including relevant WPS resolutions, in all conflict situations on its agenda.[6] We further urge you to politically and financially support comprehensive, high quality and non-discriminatory SRHR services, including access to contraception, safe abortion and maternal health care, and fully integrate these rights into crisis prevention, response and recovery plans.
  6. Insist on women at the table. Women have the right to full and equal representation.[7] Politically and financially support the full, equal, meaningful and safe participation and leadership of diverse women[8] at all levels and stages of decision-making, with the target of 50%.[9] In particular, we urge you to prioritize women’s direct participation in formal Track 1 or high-level peace and political processes, especially the meaningful representation of women human rights defenders, peacebuilders and feminist movements. Women must be able to influence the outcome and implementation of negotiations, across all issues. Further, demand the equal, direct and influential participation of women as a standard requirement across all UN-supported peace processes and convenings.[10] The Security Council, the UN and Member States must not endorse, facilitate, participate in or support peace or political processes where women are excluded.
  7. Support principled humanitarian action. Ensure gender-responsive, locally-led humanitarian action, and safe, unhindered humanitarian access to affected populations of all genders and diversities, as required by international humanitarian law. A principled humanitarian response is only possible when it centers non-discrimination and the fundamental human rights and participation of diverse women.[11] Allowing discriminatory laws, policies and practices to determine or impose constraints on how humanitarian actors operate — such as by deploying male-only response teams or denying access to services based on sexual orientation and gender identity — undermines humanitarian principles, limits access to diverse women and girls, reinforces exclusion and further threatens women’s rights. Support diverse women’s participation in the design and implementation of, and all decision-making on, humanitarian action.
  8. Demand justice and accountability. All violations of women’s rights, including all forms of gender-based violence, conflict-related sexual violence and attacks against women human rights defenders, must be publicly condemned, thoroughly and swiftly investigated, and perpetrators held accountable. Respect for international humanitarian and human rights law, including compliance with provisional measures of the International Court of Justice (ICJ); upholding the obligation to prevent genocide; and ending impunity, are paramount obligations of Member States and essential for securing justice for survivors. We urge you to pursue accountability strategies that center gender, including by considering codifying gender apartheid, supporting prosecutions of gender persecution at the International Criminal Court, and ensuring accountability for violations of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) at the ICJ. All justice and accountability efforts, including reparations processes, must be rights-based and survivor-centered, in order to avoid replicating harm, promote recovery and address root causes of violations, such as discrimination and inequality.
  9. Stand with feminist movements, the heart of the WPS agenda. The UN and all Member States must commit to and fully implement a zero-tolerance approach[12] to any form of attack, intimidation, retaliation or reprisal against diverse women for their political participation, human rights and humanitarian work, peacebuilding activities or cooperation with UN mechanisms, including the Security Council. However, protection must never compromise participation. It is critical that independent and diverse women civil society and human rights defenders continue to inform all peace and security policymaking, including Security Council discussions;[13] that their independent selection and views are fully respected; and, most importantly, that their recommendations are acted upon.
  10. Fund peace, not war. Increase funding to local women-led, women’s rights and LGBTQIA+ organizations, networks and movements, and support initiatives that promote gender equality and feminist leadership. Provide direct, accessible, long-term and flexible funding to, and promote partnerships with, women civil society, in order for them to work safely, sustainably and effectively, free of impediments.[14] Meet the minimum target of earmarking 15% of funds for programs that advance gender equality and allocate a minimum of 1% of overseas development assistance for women’s rights and women-led peacebuilding organizations by 2025 with a firm commitment to increasing it in the future.[15] We further urge you, as donors, to support the independence and integrity of civil society organizations, especially organizations working on contested issues, to ensure that they are able to sustain their indispensable work, free of obstacles or interference.

Over the last 24 years, women civil society, including human rights defenders, peacebuilders and feminist movements, have stood on the frontlines of conflict: advocating for peace, elevating the voices of affected communities, and speaking truth to power — all while charting a clear path toward more just, equal and peaceful societies. Ahead of the 25th anniversary of Resolution 1325, the women, girls and LGBTQIA+ people of Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Western Sahara, Yemen and all other crises on the Security Council’s agenda will be looking to you to deliver on 25 years of promises.

Sincerely,

  1. NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security (NGOWG) – Global
  2. Amnesty International (AI) – United Kingdom, Global
  3. Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) – United States, Global
  4. Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights (CGSHR) – United States, Global
  5. Global Justice Center (GJC) – United States, Global
  6. Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP) – United States, Global
  7. Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) – Netherlands, Global
  8. Human Rights Watch (HRW) – United States, Global
  9. International Alert (IA) – United Kingdom, Global
  10. MADRE – United States, Global
  11. Nobel Women’s Initiative (NWI) – Canada, Global
  12. Outright International – United States, Global
  13. Refugees International (RI) – United States, Global
  14. Women Enabled International (WEI) – United States, Global
  15. Women for Women International (WfWI) – United States, Global
  16. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) – Global
  17. Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) – Global
  18. منظمة ألعاد (ABAAD-Resource Center for Gender Equality) – Lebanon
  19. رابطة أمهات المختطفين (Abductees’ Mothers Association) (AMA) – Yemen
  20. Abortion Access Front (AAF) – United States
  21. منظمة عبس التنموية للمراة والطفل (Abs Development Organization for Woman and Child) (ADO) – Yemen
  22. Accepting Others Organization (AOO) – Iraq
  23. ACT Alliance – Switzerland, Global
  24. Action de Protection Mère et Enfant (APME) – DRC
  25. Action for Conflict Resolution (ACR) – South Sudan
  26. Action for Girls and Women Survival (AGWOMSUR) – Liberia
  27. Action Network on Forced Displacement – Women as Agents of Change – Germany
  28. Action pour le Développement de l’Initiative Locale (ADILO) – Mali
  29. ActionAid – South Africa, Global
  30. Actions pour la Réinsertion Sociale de la Femme (ARSF) – DRC
  31. Actions Jeunes et Femmes pour le Développement Durable (AJFDD) – Mali
  32. Adéquations – France
  33. Advocacy for Human Rights and Justice-Sierra Leone (ADHRJUST-SL) – Sierra Leone
  34. Afghan Canadian Civil Society Forum (ACSFo) – Canada
  35. Afghan Refugees Solidarity Association (ARSA) – Turkey
  36. جنبش زنان برای عدالت و آزادی (Afghan Women’s Movement for Justice and Freedom) (AWMJF) – Afghanistan
  37. Afghan Women’s Network International (AWNI) – United States
  38. Afghan Women’s Organization (AWO) – Canada
  39. Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO) – Canada, Global
  40. Afghanistan Justice Organization (AJO) – Afghanistan
  41. ائتلاف جنبش های اعتراضی زنان افغانستان (Afghanistan Women Protester Movements Coalition) (AWPMC) – Afghanistan, Global
  42. Afghanistan Women’s Political Participation Network – Afghanistan, Global
  43. انقلاب زنان افغانستان (Afghanistan Women’s Revolution) – Afghanistan, Global
  44. African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) – Gambia, Global
  45. African Women Leaders Network Liberia (AWLN LIBERIA) – Liberia
  46. Afrihealth Optonet Association (AHOA) – Nigeria, Global
  47. Afrikagrupperna – Sweden
  48. Agir ensemble pour les droits humains – France
  49. Ágora – Mexico, Global
  50. Aisling Swaine, Professor of Peace, Security and International Law, University College Dublin, Ireland
  51. مؤسسة السناء لحقوق الانسان (Al-Sanaa Foundation for Human Rights) (SFHR) – Iraq
  52. All Survivors Project (ASP) – Liechtenstein, Global
  53. Alliance congolaise pour les foyers et combustibles améliorés (ACFCA) – DRC
  54. Alliance for Choice (AfC) – United Kingdom
  55. Alliance for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes (APAC) – United Kingdom, Global
  56. GLOBAL – Ukraine
  57. منتدى المحبة والسلام (Almahabba Wes Salam Forum) – Iraq
  58. المستقبل للاستناره والتنميه (Almostagball for Enlightenment and Development Organization) (AEDO) – Sudan
  59. منظمة الرونق للمرأة والطفل (Al-Rawnaq Organization for Women and Children) – Libya
  60. Amaana Relief and Social Development Organisation (ARESDO) – Somalia
  61. Angat Bayi – Philippines
  62. Arab Network for Knowledge About Human Rights (ANKH Association) – France
  63. Anne Marie Goetz, Clinical Professor, Center for Global Affairs, New York University
  64. Aotearoa New Zealand Campaign on Military Spending (ANZCOMS) – New Zealand
  65. Aquarius Supervivientes – Spain
  66. Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) – Jordan
  67. Arab Women Organization of Jordan (AWO) – Jordan
  68. Arid Lands Development Focus (ALDEF-K) – Kenya
  69. Armenian Committee of Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly (HCA-Armenia) – Armenia
  70. الجمعيه الفلسطينيه لصاحبات الاعمال (ASALA, the Palestinian Businesswomen’s Association) – Palestine
  71. Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN Indonesia) – Indonesia
  72. Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) – Malaysia
  73. Asociación Colectivo Mujeres Al Derecho (ASOCOLEMAD) – Colombia, Global
  74. Asociación de Trabajadoras del Hogar a Domicilio y de Maquila (ATRAHDOM) – Guatemala
  75. Associação Cabo-Verdiana de Luta Contra Violência Baseada no Género (ACLCVBG) – Cabo Verde
  76. Associação de Estudos, Cooperação e Desenvolvimento (EOS) – Portugal
  77. Associação Luterana para o Desenvolvimento de Angola (ALDA) – Angola
  78. Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres – Portugal
  79. Association d’Aide à l’Education de l’Enfant Handicapé (AAEEH) – France, Global
  80. Association de Développement de l’éducation et de la Paix en Afrique (ADEPA) – DRC
  81. Association des Cultivateurs des Collectivités de Batangi et Bamate (ACUCOBA) – DRC
  82. Association Djazairouna des Familles Victimes du Terrorisme – Algeria
  83. Association Dushirehamwe (ADH) – Burundi
  84. Association En Terre Indigène – France, Global
  85. Association Gender, Peace and Security (AGPS) – Albania
  86. Association pour la Conservation et la Protection des Écosystèmes des Lacs et l’Agriculture Durable (ACOPELAD) – DRC
  87. Association for Farmers Rights Defense (AFRD) – Georgia, Global
  88. Association pour le Développement et de la Promotion des Droits Humains (ADPDH) – Mauritania, Global
  89. Association Najdeh (AN) – Lebanon
  90. الجمعية الوطنية المرأة في اتصال (Association Nationale Femmes en Communication) (FEC) – Algeria
  91. Association Nigérienne de Défense des Droits de L’Homme (ANDDH) – Niger
  92. Association of War Affected Women (AWAW) – Sri Lanka
  93. Association of Wartime Allies (AWA) – United States
  94. Association des Femmes de l’Europe Méridionale (AFEM) – France
  95. Association Promotion Féminine Gaoua (APFG) – Burkina Faso
  96. Association de Lutte contre les Violences faites aux Femmes et aux Filles Extrême Nord Cameroun (ALVFEN) – Cameroon
  97. Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice – United States, Global
  98. Avaaz – United States, Global
  99. Azadi-e Zan – Afghanistan, Global
  100. Bahrain Centre for Human Rights – Denmark
  101. بيتي انا بيتك (Baite Ana Baytac) (BAB) – Syria
  102. Beautiful Hearts – Mongolia, Global
  103. Beregynia Poland Foundation – Poland
  104. Bishkek Feminist Initiatives (BFI) – Kyrgyzstan
  105. Bonhishikha – Bangladesh
  106. Botswana Gender Based Violence Prevention and Support Centre (BGBVC) – Botswana
  107. Brighter One Uganda (BOU) – Uganda
  108. British Columbia Council for International Cooperation (BCCIC) – Canada, Global
  109. Burmese Women’s Union (BWU) – Myanmar, Thailand
  110. Cadire Cameroon Association – Cameroon
  111. Canada for Africa Group (CanafGroup) – Canada
  112. CEDAW Committee of Trinidad and Tobago (CCoTT) – Trinidad and Tobago, Global
  113. Comité Ecuménico para o Desenvolvimento Social (CEDES) – Mozambique
  114. Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) – United States, Global
  115. Center for Civil Society and Democracy (CCSD) – Syria
  116. Center for Human Rights Advocacy (CHRA) – Switzerland
  117. Centre for Inclusive Governance, Peace and Justice (CIGPJ) – South Sudan
  118. Center for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (CIHLHR) – Yemen, Global
  119. Center for Peace Building and Democracy in Liberia (CEPEBUD-Liberia) – Liberia
  120. “Qadın və Müasir Dünya” Mərkəzi (Center “Women and Modern World”) (CWMW) – Azerbaijan
  121. Centre for Environment, Human Rights & Development Forum (CEHRDF) – Bangladesh, Global
  122. Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP) – Germany
  123. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) – South Africa
  124. Centro de Culturas Indígenas del Perú (CHIRAPAQ) – Peru
  125. Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Francisco de Vitoria, O.P. A.C. (CDH Vitoria) – Mexico
  126. Centro de Educación e Investigación para la Paz (CEIPAZ) – Spain
  127. Centro de Justicia y Paz (CEPAZ) – Venezuela
  128. Centro Ecuatoriano de Desarrollo y Estudios Alternativos (CEDEAL) – Ecuador
  129. Centro Studi Difesa Civile (CSDC) – Italy
  130. Благотворительный Фонд “Асарька” (Charity Foundation “Asarkia”) – Abkhazia
  131. Charity & Security Network (C&SN) – United States
  132. Благодійна організація Благодійний Фонд Вітри Змін (Charity Foundation Winds of Changes) (WOC) – Ukraine
  133. Chikka Federation of India – India
  134. Child is Gold Foundation (CIGF) – Nigeria
  135. Children and Young People Living for Peace (CYPLP) – Nigeria, Global
  136. CHOICE for Youth and Sexuality – Netherlands, Global
  137. Christian Council of Lesotho (CCL) – Lesotho
  138. Canadian Initiative for Refugee Resettlement, Counseling, Localizing and Empowerment (CIRCLE International) – Canada, Global
  139. Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) – United States
  140. CIVICUS – South Africa, Global
  141. Colectivo Género y Teología para el Desarrollo (CGyT) – Bolivia
  142. Collectif des Femmes Rurales pour le Développement (COFERD) – DRC
  143. Colombia Diversa – Colombia
  144. Comité régional de solidarité des femmes pour la paix en Casamance (USOFORAL) – Senegal
  145. Common Action for Gender Development (COMAGEND) – Cameroon
  146. Community and Family Aid Foundation (CAFAF) – Ghana
  147. Community Association for Vulnerable Persons (CAVP) – Cameroon
  148. Community Care Collective (CCC) – United States
  149. Community Education for Life (CEFLife) – Cameroon
  150. Community Empowerment for Peace and Development West Nile (CEPAD-WN) – Uganda
  151. Confederation of Sudanese Civil Society Organizations – Sudan
  152. Conflict Analysis Network (CAN) – United Kingdom
  153. Conflict Sensitivity Resource Facility (CSRF) – South Sudan
  154. Conseil de la paix (ONG CAP) – Comoros
  155. Consortium for Intersectional Justice (CIJ) – Sri Lanka, Global
  156. Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (CRIES) – Argentina
  157. Corporación Conciudadanía – Colombia
  158. Corporación de Investigación y Acción Social y Económica (CIASE) – Colombia
  159. Council for Global Equality – United States
  160. Counselling Line for Women and Girls (CLWG) – Albania
  161. Courage for Freedom (CFF) – Canada, Global
  162. Crown The Woman (CREW) – South Sudan
  163. Cush Consulting Group – United States
  164. Danish Family Planning Association (DFPA) – Denmark
  165. Danish Women’s Society – Denmark
  166. Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG) – United States, Global
  167. Democracy Today – Armenia
  168. Dhobley Women Association (DWA) – Somalia, Global
  169. Disability People’s Forum Uganda – Uganda, Global
  170. DIVERLEX Diversidad e Igualdad a través de la Ley – Venezuela
  171. Dominican Leadership Conference (DLC) – United States, Global
  172. Dorcas – Yemen, Global
  173. Double Hope Films – United States, Taiwan
  174. Dr Paul Kirby, Queen Mary University of London
  175. Dynamique des Femmes pour la Bonne Gouvernance (DYFEGOU) – DRC
  176. Echoes of Women in Africa (ECOWA) – Nigeria
  177. EcoPeace Builders – Lebanon
  178. Education Defenders Network (EDN) – Canada, Global
  179. Egale Canada – Canada, Global
  180. Empatiku Foundation – Indonesia
  181. Empowering Women and Girls Organization (EWGO) – South Sudan
  182. Engender – South Africa
  183. Enlace Continental de Mujeres Indígenas (ECMIA) – Peru
  184. Equality Bahamas – Bahamas
  185. Equality Fund – Canada, Global
  186. Equipop – France
  187. EQUITA – Slovakia
  188. Equity and Empowerment (EE) – Turkey
  189. Escola de Cultura de Pau (ECP) – Spain
  190. Etihad Peace Minorities Welfare Foundation (EPMWF) – India, Global
  191. المرصد الأورومتوسطي لحقوق الإنسان (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor) – Switzerland
  192. European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) – Netherlands, Global
  193. Eve Organization for Women Development (EVE) – South Sudan
  194. Farah Social Foundation (FSF) – Lebanon, Global
  195. Faudar Rural Educational Society for Harijans – India
  196. Federation of Business & Professional Women New Zealand (BPWNZ) – New Zealand
  197. Federation of Medical Women of Canada (FMWC) – Canada
  198. Femena – United States, Global
  199. Feminine Solidarity for Justice Organization (FSJO) – Afghanistan
  200. Femmes et Droits Humains (FDH) – Mali
  201. Finn Church Aid (FCA) – Finland, Global
  202. FL National Organization for Women (FL NOW) – United States
  203. Focus Development Association (FDA) – Madagascar
  204. Focus Droits et Accès (FDA) – DRC
  205. Fondation femme plus (FFP) – DRC
  206. Fondation Millennia2025 Femmes et Innovation – Belgium, Global
  207. Fondation Nicole Ilunga (FNI) – DRC
  208. Fondation Solidarité des Hommes (FSH) – DRC
  209. Food4Humanity (F4H) – Yemen
  210. Forum International des Femmes de l’Espace Francophone (FIFEF) – DRC
  211. Fòs Feminista – United States, Global
  212. Foundation for Innovative Social Development (FISD) – Sri Lanka
  213. Foundation for Public Interest Law and Development (FPIL&D) (The Pro Bono Centre) – Nigeria, Global
  214. Franciscans International – Switzerland, Global
  215. Frauennetzwerk für Frieden e. V. / Women’s Network for Peace (FNF) – Germany
  216. Free Yezidi Foundation (FYF) – Iraq
  217. Freedom Now – United States, Global
  218. Fundación Afrodescendiente por las Diversidades Sociales y Sexuales (SOMOS IDENTIDAD) – Colombia
  219. Fundación Arcoíris por el Respeto a la Diversidad Sexual (FARDS) – Mexico
  220. Fundación Mujer & Mujer – Ecuador
  221. Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM) – Argentina
  222. Fundación Tremendas – Chile, Global
  223. Fundación Unidas: Mujeres Construyendo Tejido Social – Colombia
  224. GameChangers 360 (GC360) – United States
  225. Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS) – United Kingdom, Global
  226. Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs (GEIA) – United States
  227. Gender Equality Network (GEN) – Myanmar
  228. Gender-Centru – Moldova
  229. Gender, Peace & Security – United Kingdom
  230. Generation Peace Youth Network (GenPeace) – Philippines
  231. Ghasin Al-Zaiton Organization for Youth (GZY) – Iraq
  232. Girl Up Chikka – India
  233. Girl Up Sony – India
  234. ГО «Дівчата» (Girls NGO) – Ukraine
  235. Girls Leaders Forum Rwanda (GLF Rwanda) – Rwanda
  236. Giving Value to Everyone (GIVE) – Liberia
  237. Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P) – United States, Global
  238. Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA) – United States, Global
  239. Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF) – Ghana
  240. Global Peace Film Festival (GPFF) – United States
  241. Global Project Against Hate and Extremism – United States
  242. Global South Coalition for Dignified Menstruation – Nepal, Global
  243. Golden Needle Literary Association – United States, Global
  244. Good Health Community Programmes (GHCP) – Kenya
  245. Gramin Punarnirman Sansthan (GPS) – India
  246. Greater Orlando National Organization for Women (GO-NOW) – United States
  247. GZO Peace Institute (GZOPI) – Philippines
  248. Haakro Welfare Association (HWA) – Pakistan
  249. Haiti Cholera Research Funding Foundation Inc (HCRFF) – United States, Global
  250. Hands Across the Divide (HAD) – Cyprus
  251. Health Educational Services for Women and Children Organization (HESWCO) – Afghanistan
  252. منظمة مساعدة المجتمعات ذات الهشاشة (Helping Vulnerable Communities Organization) (HVCO) – Sudan
  253. Hero Women Rising (HWR) – DRC
  254. Himaya Daeem Aataa – Lebanon
  255. Hope for the Needy Association (HOFNA) – Cameroon
  256. HPLGBT – Ukraine
  257. HTOI Gender – Myanmar
  258. Human Rights Advocates (HRA) – United States
  259. Human Rights Defenders Network-Sierra Leone (HRDN-SL) – Sierra Leone
  260. Human Rights Foundation of Monland (HURFOM) – Myanmar
  261. Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG) – Ghana
  262. Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa (HRREC – uOttawa) – Canada
  263. Human Security Collective (HSC) – Netherlands, Global
  264. Humanitarian Enhancement Aid for Resilient Transformation (HEART) – Bangladesh
  265. جمعية الإغاثة الإنسانية لنساء تركمان العراق (Humanitarian Relief Society for Iraqi Turkmen Women) (H RSTW) – Iraq
  266. Humanity & Inclusion (Handicap International) – France, Global
  267. Hunger Relief Sheroes (HURES) – Cameroon
  268. Huquqyat – United Kingdom
  269. IDP Women Association Consent (IDPWA Consent) – Georgia
  270. ILGA World – Switzerland, Global
  271. IMAN Research – Malaysia
  272. Immigration Equality – United States
  273. Impact: Center against Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence in Conflict – Netherlands, Global
  274. IMPACT MOLDOVA – Moldova
  275. In Transformation Initiative (ITI) – South Africa
  276. Indigenous Women Empowerment Network (IWEN) – Ghana
  277. Initiative Tilé – Côte d’Ivoire
  278. Initiatives des Femmes en Situations Difficiles pour le développement Durable et Intégré (IFESIDDI) – DRC
  279. Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) – Philippines
  280. ГО Інсайт (Insight Public Organization) – Ukraine
  281. Institute for International Women’s Rights Manitoba (IIWR-MB) – Canada
  282. Institute of Local Governance Studies (INLOGOS) – Nepal
  283. Instituto Think Twice Brasil (TTB) – Brazil, Global
  284. Inter Pares – Canada, Global
  285. interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth – United States
  286. Intergrated Community Development Initiatives of NIgeria (ICIN) – Nigeria
  287. Internasjonal Kvinneliga for Fred og Frihet (IKFF) (WILPF Norway) – Norway
  288. International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law (IANGEL) – United States, Global
  289. International Alliance of Women (IAW) – Switzerland, Global
  290. International Association of Liberal Religious Women (IALRW) – Switzerland
  291. Международный центр гражданских инициатив “Наш Дом” (International Centre for Civil Initiatives “Our House”) (ICCI) – Lithuania
  292. International Center for Peace, Human Rights and Development in Africa (IPHRD-AFRICA) – Kenya
  293. International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) – United States
  294. International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka (ICES) – Sri Lanka
  295. International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) – United States, Global
  296. International Council of Women (ICW-CIF) – France, Global
  297. International Federation of Business and Professional Women (IFBPW) – Switzerland
  298. International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA Cameroon) – Cameroon
  299. International Movement for Advancement of Education Culture Social & Economic Development (IMAECSED) – India, Global
  300. International Network of Liberal Women (INLW) – Netherlands, Global
  301. International Observatory for Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, Geneva (IOPDHR-GENEVA-NGO) – Switzerland
  302. International Peace Bureau (IPB) – Germany
  303. International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) – United Kingdom, Global
  304. International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) – Switzerland, Global
  305. Intersex Nigeria – Nigeria
  306. Ipas – Global
  307. Iraqi Al-Amal Association (IAA) – Iraq
  308. ISOKO Partners For Peace and Gender Equality – United States, Global
  309. Jagriti Mahila Maha Sangh – Nepal
  310. Jimmy McGilligan Centre for Sustainable Development – India
  311. Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights – Iraq
  312. Just Futures Collaborative (JFC) – United States, Global
  313. Kachin Women’s Association Thailand (KWAT) – Thailand
  314. Kalkal Human Rights Development Organization (KAHRDO) – Somalia, Global
  315. Kaos Gay and Lesbian Association – Turkey
  316. Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) – Myanmar
  317. Karen Peace Support Network (KPSN) – Myanmar
  318. Karen Women’s Organization (KWO) – Myanmar, Thailand
  319. Karenni Human Rights Group (KnHRG) – Myanmar
  320. Karenni National Women’s Organization (KNWO) – Myanmar, Thailand
  321. Kayan Women’s Organization (KyWO) – Myanmar, Thailand
  322. Keen and Care Initiative (KCI) – Nigeria
  323. Koneta Hub – South Sudan
  324. Kuki Women’s Human Rights Organization (KWHRO) – Myanmar
  325. KULU – Women and Development – Denmark
  326. L’Associació Drets Sexuals i Reproductius (ADSiR) – Spain
  327. Lahu Women’s Organization (LWO) – Myanmar, Thailand
  328. Lanka Fundamental Rights Organization (LFRO) – Sri Lanka
  329. مؤسسة دعم القانون والديمقراطية (Law and Democracy Support Foundation) (LDSF) – Germany
  330. Law and Policy Forum for Social Justice (LAPSOJ) – Nepal
  331. Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) – United States
  332. Lawyers for Justice in Libya (LFJL) – Libya
  333. Lebanese League for Women in Business (LLWB) – Lebanon
  334. Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) – Switzerland, Global
  335. Libya Crimes Watch (LCW) – Libya
  336. Liga Feminista de Refugiadas Políticas (LigaFeministaRP) – Costa Rica
  337. Ligue pour la Solidarité Congolaise (LSC) – DRC
  338. Loretto/BVM at the UN – United States
  339. Make Mothers Matter (MMM) – France, Global
  340. Malaysian Action for Justice & Unity (MAJU) – Malaysia
  341. MANODIVERSA – Bolivia
  342. Marchons Ensemble et Surement dans l’Assistance Scolaire et Humanitaire (MESAS) – DRC
  343. مؤسسة فتيات مارب (Marib Girls Foundation) (MGF) – Yemen
  344. May 17 Association – Turkey
  345. Mayako Pachian Nepal (MKPN) – Nepal
  346. Mediationcenter – Denmark
  347. Men’s Association for Gender Equality, Sierra Leone (MAGE SL) – Sierra Leone
  348. MenEngage Global Alliance – United States, Global
  349. Mental Health and Human Rights Info (MHHRI) – Norway, Global
  350. Middle East and North Africa Partnership for Preventing of Armed Conflict (MENAPPAC) – Lebanon
  351. Military Women’s Memorial (MWM) – United States
  352. Mina’s List – United States
  353. Mines Action Canada (MAC) – Canada
  354. Molukse Vrouwen Raad (Moluccan Women’s Council) (MVR) – Netherlands
  355. Monash Global Peace and Security Centre (Monash GPS) – Australia
  356. Mongolian Women’s Employment Supporting Federation (MWESF) – Mongolia
  357. Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) – Canada, Global
  358. Mother and Children Development Aid (MaCDA) – South Sudan
  359. Mother of Hope Cameroon – Cameroon
  360. Mothers Legacy Project (MLP) – United States, Global
  361. Mouvement INAMAHORO – Burundi, Global
  362. مساءلة لحقوق الإنسان (Musaala Organization for Human Rights) – Yemen
  363. Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) – Kenya
  364. Muwatin Media Network – United Kingdom
  365. Myanmar – Women, Peace and Security (M-WPS) – Thailand
  366. امي اردنية وجنسيتها حق لي (“My mother is Jordanian, and her nationality is my right” Campaign) – Jordan
  367. Namibia Diverse Women’s Association (NDWA) – Namibia
  368. Nari Unnayan Sangstha (NUS) – Bangladesh
  369. National Coalition of Civil Society Organizations of Liberia (NACCSOL) – Liberia
  370. National Council of Jewish Women San Francisco (NCJWSF) – United States
  371. National Council of Women Leaders (NCWL) – India
  372. National Organization for Women (NOW(SL)) – Sierra Leone
  373. Network on Peace and Security for Women in the ECOWAS Space (NOPSWECO-Ghana) – Ghana
  374. Network of African Peace Builders (NAPS) – Zambia
  375. Network of University Legal Aid Institutions, Nigeria (NULAI) – Nigeria
  376. New Women Connectors – Netherlands, Global
  377. NGO Fulcrum UA – Ukraine
  378. Общественная организация “Взаимодействие” (NGO “Interaction”) – Moldova
  379. ГО “Безпечний Простір” (NGO “Safe Space”) – Ukraine
  380. ОО “Агентство социальных технологий” (NGO “Social Technologies Agency”) (STA) – Kyrgyzstan
  381. مؤسسة نداء للتنمية الانسانية (Nidaa Org for Human Development) – Yemen
  382. Nitsouwa – Niger
  383. Nomadic Assistance for Peace and Development (NAPAD) – Kenya
  384. Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) – Switzerland, Global
  385. NOVE Caring Humans – Italy
  386. Observatoire Béninois des Droits de l’Homme (OBDH) – Benin
  387. Observatoire Kisal – Mali, Sahel
  388. Observatoire Marocain des Droits de Femmes (OMDF) – Morocco
  389. Observatorio de Género y Equidad (OGE) – Chile
  390. Ocalenie Foundation – Poland
  391. Office against Discrimination, Racism and Intolerance (ODRI) – Ireland, Global
  392. Université d’Oicha dans l’initiative de la résilience climatique et développement communautaire (UNIO.C.R.I.DC) – DRC
  393. Oil Refinery Residents Association (ORRA) – Uganda
  394. Operation 1325 – Sweden, Global
  395. Organisation Paysanne pour le Développement Durable (OPDD) – DRC
  396. Organisation pour le Développement Intellectuel de Madagascar (ODIMA) – Madagascar
  397. Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies (DROPS) – Afghanistan
  398. Organization for Women’s Empowerment and Development (OWED) – Cameroon
  399. Oyu Tolgoi Watch (OT Watch) – Mongolia
  400. Pa-O Women’s Union (PWU) – Myanmar, Thailand
  401. Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) – Fiji
  402. Pacific Women Mediators Network (PWMN) – Fiji
  403. Pacific Women’s Watch (NZ) (PWW-NZ) – New Zealand
  404. PAIMAN Trust – Pakistan
  405. Paradigm for Social Justice and Development (PSD) – Uganda
  406. Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) – United States, Global
  407. Partners West Africa (PWA) – Senegal
  408. Некоммерческое партнёрство «Женщины. Дети. Пожилые люди» (Partnership: Women. Children. Elderly) (WCE Partnership) – Moldova
  409. Pathways for Women’s Empowerment and Development (PaWED-IATC) – Cameroon
  410. Patriot Educational & Vocational Organisation (PEVO) – Afghanistan
  411. PAX – Netherlands, Global
  412. Pax Christi International – Belgium, Global
  413. Pax Christi Toronto (PCT) – Canada
  414. Peace and Justice Institute (PJI) – United States
  415. Peace Direct (PD) – United Kingdom, Global
  416. Peace Economy Project (PEP) – United States
  417. Peace for Sudan – Sudan
  418. Peace Movement Aotearoa – New Zealand
  419. PeaceWomen Across the Globe – Switzerland, Global
  420. Permanent Peace Movement (PPM) – Lebanon
  421. Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) – United States, Global
  422. Plateforme des Femmes pour la Paix en Casamance (PFPC) – Senegal
  423. Platform for Dialogue and Peace (P4DP) – Liberia
  424. Professor Laura J. Shepherd, The University of Sydney
  425. Programme Amkeni Wamama (PAMA) – DRC
  426. Programme d’Actions pour le Développement au Congo (PADCO) – DRC
  427. PSR Research and Consultancies – Nepal
  428. Громадська Організація “Норма Віта” (Public Organization “Norma Vita”) – Ukraine
  429. RACIDA – Kenya, Global
  430. Radha Paudel Foundation – Nepal, Global
  431. Rafto Foundation for Human Rights – Norway, Global
  432. Rainbow Railroad (RR) – Canada, Global
  433. Raise Your Voice Saint Lucia Inc (RYVSLU) – Saint Lucia
  434. Rawadari – Afghanistan
  435. Reach Out Cameroon (ROC) – Cameroon
  436. Red Colombiana de Mujeres por los Derechos Sexuales y Reproductivos – Colombia
  437. Red Dot Foundation (RDF) – India, Global
  438. Red Latinoamericana de Género y Salud Colectiva de ALAMES – Colombia
  439. Red Nacional Universitaria por la Equidad de Género en la Equidad de Género – Colombia
  440. Regional Advocacy for Women’s Sustainable Advancement Alliance for African and Arab States (RAWSA Alliance) – Egypt
  441. Regional Centre for International Development Cooperation (RCIDC) – Uganda
  442. Reproaction – United States
  443. Research and Management for Development Results (RMDR) – Netherlands
  444. Researchers Without Borders Africa (REWiB) – Uganda
  445. Réseau des femmes élues des collectivités territoriales (REFECTES) – Senegal
  446. Réseau Femme et Développement au Nord Kivu (REFED/NK) – DRC
  447. Réseau MUSONET – Mali
  448. Resilience and Advocacy Organization (Resad Network) – South Sudan
  449. RNW Media – Yemen, Global
  450. Root of Generations (ROG) – South Sudan
  451. RW Welfare Society – Bangladesh
  452. Sabah Alsudan Organization for Development (SDO) – Sudan
  453. صدى الجنوب (Sada Aljanub) – Syria
  454. Saferworld – United Kingdom, Global
  455. Sauti Ya Mama Mukongomani (Congolese Women’s Voice) (SMM) – DRC
  456. SecurityWomen – Global
  457. SEED Malaysia – Malaysia
  458. Servicio Desarrollo Rural y Agricola (SEDRA) – Chile
  459. Sustainable Fish Farming Initiative (SFFI) – Nepal, Global
  460. Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN) – Myanmar, Thailand
  461. Shanta Memorial Rehabilitation Centre (SMRC) – India
  462. SHERo Mississippi (SHERo MS) – United States
  463. Shirkat Gah – Women’s Resource Centre (SG) – Pakistan
  464. Shoura for Building National Consensus (Shoura BNC) – Jordan
  465. Sierra Leone Action Network on Small Arms (SLANSA) – Sierra Leone
  466. Siren – Protectors of the Rainforest, Inc (SirenProtect) – United States
  467. Sister’s Hand Liberia (SHL) – Liberia
  468. Social Research & Development Institute (SORADI) – Somalia
  469. Sociedade de Estudos e Intervenção em Engenharia Social (SEIES) – Portugal
  470. Society for Economic Empowerment and Entrepreneurship Development (SEEED) – Nigeria, Global
  471. Society for Orphan & Neglected Youths (SONY) – India
  472. Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP) – Nigeria
  473. Society Of Local Volunteers’ Efforts (SOLVE-Nepal) – Nepal
  474. Solidarité des femmes, filles et enfants de la RDC (SOLIFEDE RDC) – DRC
  475. Solidarité Féminine Pour la Paix et le Développement Integral (SOFEPADI) – DRC
  476. Solidarity Acts Spark Hope – Denmark
  477. Somali Gender Hub (SGH) – Somalia
  478. Sonke Gender Justice (SGJ) – South Africa
  479. Soroptimist International – United Kingdom, Global
  480. South Sudan Women’s Empowerment Network (SSWEN) – South Sudan
  481. Speak for Life Cancer Prevention Initiative (S4L CPI) – Nigeria
  482. جنبش خودجوش زنان معترض افغانستان (Spontaneous Movement of Protesting Women in Afghanistan) (SMOPWIA) – Afghanistan
  483. Start Point – Syria, Global
  484. Steps Without Borders NGO – Mongolia
  485. STEWARDWOMEN – South Sudan
  486. Stichting Female Journalists Network (SFJN) – Netherlands
  487. Strategic Development Groups of Asia (SDGA) – Germany
  488. Strategic Litigation Project – United States, Global
  489. Strategies for Northern Development – Kenya
  490. Sudan Family Planning Association (SFPA) – Sudan
  491. Sudanese Women Rights Action (SUWRA) – Sudan
  492. Sudanese Organization for Research and Development (SORD) – Sudan
  493. جمعيه نساء سودانيات لسلام والتنميه (Sudanese Women for Peace and Development Association) (SWPDA) – Sudan
  494. Sukaar Welfare Organization (SWO) – Pakistan
  495. Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN) – Uganda
  496. Support Women Initiative for Progress Organisation (SWIPO) – South Sudan
  497. Sustainable Human Empowerment (SHE) Associates – Canada, Global
  498. Swaziland Massacre Victims and Survivors Association (Swavisa) – Eswatini
  499. SYCAC – Syria
  500. Synergie des Femmes pour les Victimes des Violences Sexuelles (SFVS) – DRC
  501. Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) – Netherlands
  502. Syrian Women’s League – Germany
  503. Ta’ang Women’s Organization (TWO) – Myanmar, Thailand
  504. Tafawuq Consulting Center for Development (TCCD) – Bahrain
  505. Tamazight Women’s Movement (TWN) – Libya
  506. Tavoyan Women’s Union (TWU) – Myanmar
  507. TERRE DES FEMMES e.V. (TDF) – Germany
  508. The Australian Civil Society Coalition on Women, Peace and Security (WPSCoalition) – Australia, Global
  509. The Baton Denmark – United Kingdom
  510. The Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan – Afghanistan
  511. The Circle NGO – United Kingdom, Global
  512. The Duty Legacy (TDL) – United Kingdom, Global
  513. The Finnish Women, Peace and Security Network – Finland
  514. The Gender Security Project (GSP) – Global
  515. The Global Sunrise Project – Canada, Global
  516. The Ham Diley Campaign (HD) – Australia, Global
  517. The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation – Sweden, Global
  518. The Lotus Flower (TLF) – Iraq
  519. The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) – Palestine
  520. The Regional Coalition for Women Human Rights Defenders in Southwest Asia and North Africa (WHRDMENA) – MENA
  521. The Scottish Women’s Convention (SWC) – United Kingdom, Global
  522. The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) Network – Uganda, Horn of Africa
  523. The Weaving House (TWH) – New Zealand
  524. Together for Environment and Community Wellness (TECW) – Benin
  525. مبادرة معا للسلام بالداخل والخارج (Together for Peace) – Yemen
  526. Transparency International Madagascar (TI-MG) – Madagascar
  527. Tumaini Amani Development Foundation (TADF) – Lesotho
  528. Turkmenistan Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (THF) – Bulgaria, Turkmenistan
  529. Unidad de Defensa Jurídica (UDJ) – Nicaragua
  530. UnidOSC – Mexico
  531. Union des Femmes Francophones d’Océanie Nouvelle-Calédonie (UFFO NC) – France
  532. Union pour la Promotion/Protection, la Défense des Droits Humains et de l’Environnement (UPDDHE/GL) – DRC
  533. United Funding and Development for Underage Mothers (UFDUM), inc. – Liberia, Sierra Leone
  534. United Nations Association – UK (UNA-UK) – United Kingdom
  535. United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY Peacebuilders) – Global
  536. Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism (UAF-FA) – United States, Global
  537. S. Campaign for Burma (USCB) – United States
  538. Vanuatu Human Rights Coalition (VHRC) – Vanuatu
  539. Visibles – Guatemala
  540. Vision GRAM-International (VGI) – Canada, Global
  541. Wajir Women for Peace (WWFP) – Kenya
  542. WAYVE Foundation – India
  543. Rețeaua Femeilor pentru Democrație (WDN Moldova) – Moldova
  544. We Women Lanka (WWL) – Sri Lanka
  545. West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) – Nigeria
  546. Wi’am: The Palestinian Conflict Transformation Center – Palestine
  547. Widows for Peace through Democracy (WPD) – United Kingdom, Global
  548. Widows Rights International – United Kingdom
  549. WILPF Australia – Australia
  550. WILPF Austria – Austria
  551. WILPF Denmark – Denmark
  552. WILPF España – Spain
  553. WILPF Finland – Finland
  554. WILPF Germany (Internationale Frauenliga für Frieden und Freiheit) – Germany
  555. WILPF Guinée (Ligue internationale des femmes pour la paix et la liberté Guinée) – Guinea
  556. WILPF Italy – Italy
  557. WILPF RDC – DRC
  558. WILPF Sudan – Sudan
  559. WILPF Switzerland – Switzerland
  560. مؤسسة اجنحة السلام (Wings of Peace Foundation) (WPF) – Yemen
  561. WO=MEN Dutch Gender Platform – Netherlands, Global
  562. وجود للأمن الإنساني (Wogood for Human Security) (WHS) – Yemen
  563. Women Committee Access for Humanitarian Foundation (WCHF) – South Sudan
  564. جنبش رفاه و عدالت برای زنان (Woman Welfare and Justice Movement) (WWJM) – Afghanistan
  565. Womankind Kenya (WOKIKE) – Kenya
  566. Women Advocacy Coalition – Myanmar (WAC-M) – Global
  567. Women Advocacy Committee (WAC) – Afghanistan, Global
  568. Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF) – Afghanistan
  569. Women and Children Research and Advocacy Network (WCRAN) – Afghanistan, Global
  570. Women & Peace Studies Organization (WPSO) – Canada
  571. Women and Youth Empowerment Initiative (WAYEI) – South Sudan
  572. Women Collective Kenya (WCK) – Kenya
  573. Women Development and Youth Education Center (WODYEC) – Liberia
  574. Women Empowerment Against Poverty of Nepal (WEAPoN) – Nepal
  575. Women Empowerment and Human Resource Development Centre of India (WHI) – India, Global
  576. Women Empowerment Centre-South Sudan (WECSS) – South Sudan
  577. Women Empowerment for Peace and Development Organization (WEPDO-SS) – South Sudan
  578. Women Engaged in Action 1325 (WEAct 1325) – Philippines
  579. Women Environment and Youth Development Initiative (WOYODEV) – Nigeria
  580. Women for Justice (WJ) – Myanmar
  581. Women for Justice and Equality (WOJE) – South Sudan
  582. Women for Peace and Democracy Nepal (WPD Nepal) – Nepal
  583. Women for Water Partnership – Netherlands, Global
  584. Women Graduates-USA – United States, Global
  585. Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRDIC) – Global
  586. Women in Law and Development in Africa, Mali (WiLDAF Mali) – Mali, Global
  587. Women in Law and Development in Africa – Afrique de l’Ouest (WiLDAF-AO) – West Africa
  588. Women in Politics Support Unit (WiPSU) – Zimbabwe
  589. Women Initiative for Humanitarian and Development Organization (WIHDO) – South Sudan
  590. Women NGOs Secretariat of Liberia (WONGOSOL) – Liberia
  591. Women Now for Development (WND) – France, Global
  592. Women Relief Aid (WRA) – South Sudan, Global
  593. Women Wage Peace – Australia (WWP) – Australia
  594. Women With Disability Self Reliance Foundation (WWDSRF) – Nigeria
  595. Women Working Group (WWG) – Indonesia
  596. Women’s Center for Guidance and Legal Awareness (WCGLA) – Egypt
  597. Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC) – Palestine
  598. جمعية ضمة النسائية (Women’s Damma Hug Association) – Lebanon
  599. Women’s Health and Equal Rights Initiative (WHER) – Nigeria
  600. Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice (WIGJ) – Netherlands
  601. Women’s Institute for Alternative Development (WINAD) – Trinidad and Tobago
  602. Women’s International Peace Centre (WIPC) – Uganda, Global
  603. Women’s League of Burma (WLB) – Thailand
  604. جنبش زنان به سوی آزادی (Women’s Movement Towards Freedom) – Afghanistan
  605. المنظمة النسائية للعدالة الانتقالية (Women’s Organization for Transitional Justice) (WOFTJ) – Turkey
  606. Women’s Peace Network (WPN) – Myanmar, Global
  607. Women’s Regional Network (WRN) – United States, Global
  608. Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) – Nepal
  609. Women’s Rights Center Montenegro (WRC) – Montenegro
  610. Women’s Transformation and Development Organization – South Sudan
  611. Women’s UN Report Network (WUNRN) – United States, Global
  612. Women’s Voice in Action – Ukraine, Global
  613. Women4nonviolence (W4NV) – Japan, Global
  614. Women’s Alliance for Equality (WAfE) – Zambia
  615. World Federalist Movement – Canada (WFM-C) – Canada
  616. World March of Women of Kenya – Kenya
  617. مركز اليمن لدراسات حقوق الانسان (Yemen Center for Human Rights Studies) (YCHRS) – Yemen
  618. يمن فيوتشر للتنمية الثقافية والاعلامية (Yemen Future for Culture and Media Development) (YFCMD) – Yemen
  619. Yemen Organization on Women’s Policies (YOWP) – Netherlands
  620. YGlobal Uganda – Uganda
  621. Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) – Nigeria, Global
  622. Young Women’s Christian Association of South Sudan (YWCA) – South Sudan
  623. Youth Link (YL) – South Sudan
  624. Youth, Peace, and Security Network – Canada (YPSN-C) – Canada
  625. Youths Enterprise Development and Innovation Society (YEDIS) – Nigeria
  626. Youth Transforming Africa Narrative (YOTAN) – Liberia
  627. Zan Times – Canada
  628. Zaporizhia Charitable Foundation “Unity for the Future” (UFF) – Ukraine

 

 

[1] LGBTQIA+ refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and other gender-diverse people.

[2] Security Council Resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1888 (2008), 1889 (2008), 1960 (2010), 2106 (2013), 2122 (2013), 2242 (2015), 2467 (2019), and 2493 (2019).

[3] Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Central African Region, the Central African Republic (CAR), Colombia, Cyprus, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Great Lakes Region, Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, West Africa and the Sahel, Western Sahara and Yemen.

[4] Intensify efforts towards reducing the flow of small arms and light weapons (SALW) by implementing all relevant treaties and protocols, including the ATT, Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition (General Assembly Resolution 55/255 (8 June 2001), undocs.org/a/res/55/255) and the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UN PoA) (UN PoA, 2001, A/CONF.192/15, https://undocs.org/en/A/CONF.192/15(SUPP)).

[5] Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 18 December 1979, UNTS 1249, https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/convention-elimination-all-forms-discrimination-against-women; Beijing Declaration and Platform For Action, 15 September 1995, https://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/pdf/BDPfA%20E.pdf; Global Study on the Implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, 2015, https://wps.unwomen.org/.

[6] International humanitarian law (IHL) and customary IHL protect sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including access to safe abortion, through: the right to all necessary medical care without adverse distinction, including for pregnant women (Common Article 3 to the Geneva Conventions; Geneva Convention III, art. 14; Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, Arts. 8, 10; Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions, Art. 7; Customary IHL Database Rule 88); prohibiting rape and other forms of sexual violence (Customary IHL Database Rule 93); and prohibition of “cruel treatment and torture” and “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment” (Common Article 3). Under international human rights law, SRHR are protected including through the rights to: life (ICCPR Art. 6; CRC Art. 6; UDHR Art. 3; CRPD Art. 10); health (CERD Art. 5(e)(iv); ICESCR Art. 12; CEDAW Arts. 11(1)(f), 12, 14(2)(b); CRPD Art. 25; CRC Art. 24, UDHR Art. 25); privacy (ICCPR Art. 17; CRC Art. 16; UDHR Art. 12; CRPD Art. 22); liberty and security of person; freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (CAT; ICCPR Art. 7; UDHR Art. 5; CRPD Art. 15; CRC Art. 37); freedom of thought, conscience, and religion or belief (ICCPR Art. 18); equality and non-discrimination (UDHR Art. 2; ICCPR Arts. 3, 26; ICESCR Art. 2; CERD Art. 1; CEDAW Arts. 1 and 2); and to seek, receive, and impart information (ICCPR Art. 19; UDHR Art. 19; CEDAW Arts. 10, 14, 16; CRPD Art. 21; CRC Arts. 13, 17).

SRHR are also protected by Security Council resolutions 1889 (2009), 2106 (2013), and 2122 (2013).

See also WHO Abortion Care Guideline, “Web Annex A: Key international human rights standards on abortion,” 2022, https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/349317/9789240039506-eng.pdf; Center for Reproductive Rights, “Accountability for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings,” 7 June 2021, https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SRHR-humanitarian-settings-6-2021.pdf. 

[7] Under the equality provisions of international human rights law, women have the right to full and equal representation, and States have a duty to guarantee that women fully exercise their human rights on an equal footing with men, free from discrimination. The binding principles of equality and nondiscrimination form the backbone of the international human rights protection system, and are enshrined in the UN Charter Art. 1(3), UDHR Art. 2, ICCPR Arts. 2, 3, 25, ICESCR Arts. 2, 3, CEDAW Arts. 7, 8, Human Rights Committee General Comment 28, and CEDAW Committee General Recommendations 23, 25, 28 and 30, in addition to Security Council Resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008), 1889 (2009), 2106 (2013), 2122 (2013), 2242 (2015), 2467 (2019) and 2493 (2019).

[8] “Diverse women” includes women from minority, ethnic and religious groups, LGBTQIA+ individuals, young women, displaced and migrant women, women with disabilities, and other marginalized groups. CEDAW General recommendation No. 30 on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations, ¶6, 36, 1 November 2013, undocs.org/CEDAW/C/GC/30.

[9] See “2023 Open Letter to Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in advance of the annual Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security,” NGO Working Group on WPS, 16 October 2023, https://www.womenpeacesecurity.org/resource/open-letter-un-wps-2023/.

[10] In 2023, the UN led/co-led 4 peace processes, including the Geneva International Discussions on the conflict in Georgia, Libya, Sudan, and Yemen. There are also currently at least 44 countries where UN peace operations and/or special envoys are involved in mediation or peacebuilding: Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, CAR, Chad, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Djibouti, DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Iraq, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Rwanda, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Togo, Western Sahara and Yemen.

[11] The principle of neutrality cannot be used to undermine the guarantee of non-discrimination in humanitarian settings. The principle of ‘do no harm’ cannot be upheld if humanitarian action reinforces discrimination and fails to actively protect and promote human rights. Failing to counter gendered protection risks, for example, undermines the principle of ‘do no harm.’ Center for Reproductive Rights, “Accountability for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings,” 7 June 2021, https://reproductiverights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SRHR-humanitarian-settings-6-2021.pdf. See also OCHA, “Policy Instruction on Gender Equality 2021-2025,” https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/world/policy-instruction-gender-equality-2021-2025;  UNHCR, “Emergency Handbook: Humanitarian Principles,” 2021, https://emergency.unhcr.org/entry/44765/humanitarianprinciples.

[12] Statement of Shared Commitments on Women, Peace and Security, https://ambasadat.gov.al/united-nations/ova_dep/albanias-priorities-in-the-council/; Report of the Secretary-General on Cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights, 20 August 2024, https://undocs.org/A/HRC/57/60.

[13] UN Security Council Resolution 2242 (2015), https://undocs.org/S/RES/2242(2015).

[14] This includes removing bureaucratic and administrative barriers to equitable partnerships with women’s organizations in relation to proposal processes, partnership agreements, and reporting requirements.

[15] For example, support the UN Secretary-General’s call to multiply by five direct assistance to women’s organizations. Report of the Secretary-General on women, peace and security, ¶113(d), 25 September 2020, undocs.org/s/2020/946.

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