1. Women, Peace & Security WG-USA Working Group
Kathleen Laurila

2. Context of the Peace issue
International Federation of University Women (IFUW) 1919 A worldwide organization uniting university women to foster friendship and understanding among women graduates to help prevent another catastrophe such as the World War that had just ended.

3. Context of the Peace issue
United Nations Actions:
1946 International Bill of Human Rights
1979 Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
1995 Beijing Platform for Women
2000 Women, Peace & Security Resolution 1325
2015 Sustainable Development Goals (#16)

4. WG-USA Advocacy of the Peace issue
United States National Action Plan on Women, Peace & Security
Goal: to empower half the world’s population as equal partners in preventing conflict and building peace in countries threatened and affected by war, violence, and insecurity.
Achieving this goal is critical
to our national and global security.

5. Current invitation to members Share Your story of women as peacemakers > Upper Right hand corner to click on the story

6. WG-USA Peace & Security for Refugees
Will you join the working group to:
Research information about the security needs for women and children in refugee camps and routes along which they are fleeing?
Provide stories, programming ideas and advocacy actions based upon research?

7. Women, Peace & Security Join WG-USA Working Group
Kathleen Laurila