The United Nations’ Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda suffers from an ongoing burden: the need for less talk and more action. Invariably, several speakers raise this issue at the Security Council’s annual Open Debate …
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Since the UN Security Council adopted the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda in 2000, the world has started to facilitate women’s participation in peace and security processes while protecting them from gender-based violence. But …
An unacceptable pattern is emerging in the way the Department of Home Affairs deals with visa applications for vulnerable Afghan women. The Taliban celebrated the three-year anniversary of its takeover of Afghanistan in August with a …
Any day now, the government will release the public report of the latest independent review of the National Intelligence Community (NIC), conducted by Heather Smith and Richard Maude. The review covers the 10 agencies that …
Australia must do more to end impunity for conflict-related sexual violence. Recent legislation allowing the repudiation of citizenship as part of a wider effort against people who engage in terrorism effectively excludes perpetrators of conflict-related …