This year, we are celebrating twenty-five years of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda adopted through UN Security Council Resolution 1325 under the premise that peace is more sustainable ...

Three members of Women Wage Peace, including co-founder Vivian Silver, were killed that day. Hajajreh says the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza had long been untenable.

Women represented only 16 per cent of conflict party delegations in UN-led or co-led peace processes in 2022, down from 19 per cent in 2021 and 23 per cent in 2020.

Although the MEDCAP was not WPS-led, it demonstrates how WPS efforts continue to evolve in Africa, with the commitment to empower women remaining central to building lasting peace.

In 2017, a bipartisan Congress passed the Women, Peace and Security Act. Then-Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was a cosponsor and then-Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., introduced it in the House.

Both Women Wage Peace and Women of the Sun were founded after the 2014 Gaza War, a 50-day conflict that caused mass displacement and injury and left more than 2,250 Palestinians dead.

invite you to attend the premiere of their free multimedia exhibit: “Through Her Lens: Women Rising for Peace” on Saturday, 7 June at 7:00 p.m. (EST) at Pier 1, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York.