UN Women supports South-East Asian countries improve financing for women and security policies
Jakarta, Indonesia – To build peaceful and secure environments for women, governments must not only make political commitments but also use budgeting processes, from planning stage onwards, that ensure that their policies meet the specific needs of women. UN Women has been supporting the Member States of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) improve their […]
Take Five: “Where women are active and playing a leading role, peace is sustainable and democracy lasts”
Amina Rasul is President of the Philippines Center for Islam and Democracy (PCID) and Chair of ASEAN Women for Peace Registry. PCID organized dialogues among civil society organizations that provided input to the drafting of the ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on Women, Peace and Security. ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, adopted the […]
A breath of hope for Rohingya women in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
How providing cash, piglets, and business training, as well as essential gender-based violence services, is helping Rohingya survivors of gender-based violence, and those at risk, in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Author: Nan Sanhom Rakhine State, Myanmar – Daw Mya Mya Aye, 60, could not hide her joy as she joined fellow villagers in sharing how the Central […]
Take Five: “The contribution of women and girls to sustaining peace and security will be recognized”
What does the adoption of ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on Women, Peace and Security (RPA WPS) mean for ASEAN and women and girls in the region? There was a need for a systematic approach with clear plan and strategic direction since the adoption of the Joint Statement on Promoting Women, Peace and Security in […]
UN Women helps strengthen women and peace plan in the Philippines’ Bangsamoro region
Zamboanga City, Philippines – Women peacebuilders from groups with sometimes-clashing interests have joined together in identifying the successes and gaps of a programme to strengthen women’s security and public participation in the Bangsamoro region of the southern Philippines. UN Women and United Nations Development Programme jointly organized the dialogues to assess progress made during 2020-2022 of […]
UN Women co-hosts hybrid Forum on developing Viet Nam’s plan on women and peacebuilding
Hanoi, Viet Nam — The Viet Nam Women’s Union discussed with Government, social organizations and international agencies today how it can help develop a national plan to achieve the United Nations goal of strengthening the role of women and women’s organizations and concerned stakeholders in promoting Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda. The Government has actively […]
Take Five: “It is our responsibility as the generation for future, as the generation for today, to hold people in power accountable.”
Mallika Iyer, 26, an Indian-American, served until July 2022 as Director of Asia and the Pacific and Europe Programs and Humanitarian Action at the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders. The civil society organization, based in New York, provides inputs to the ASEAN Regional Plan of Action on Women, Peace and Security, to which UN Women […]
In the words of Aileen U. Hualde: “Development efforts come in when peace and humanitarian actions are practiced on the ground”
Interviewer: Carol Dawonlay vda Bello Aileen U. Hualde, 47, is based in Maguindanao Province in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, in southern Philippines. She is a leader of the Teduray indigenous people and founder of the Women Organization of Rajah Mamalu Descendants, which groups women whose families were displaced by armed conflicts. Hualde was […]
In an Indonesian province, the people devise a gender-responsive action plan for peace
Author: Xinyue Gu Palu, Indonesia – Supported by UN Women and its project partner, the Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN) Indonesia, activists and government authorities who believe that women can play important roles in the effort are devising gender-responsive ways to tackle the risks of violent extremism in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province. In 2021, Indonesia issued […]
