What’s so important about WPS? The fact that women make up at least half the population should be reason enough to include them in peace and security processes, but the ‘emphasis on women’ continues to …
Tag Archive for: "WPS"
In April this year, Australia hosted the inaugural ASEAN–Australia women, peace and security (WPS) dialogue, an initiative born out of the ASEAN–Australia special summit in March. Although Australia has been involved in regional peacekeeping operations …
Sexual violence in Myanmar Researchers at Monash University have compiled a new ‘Preventing mass sexual violence in Asia–Pacific’ dataset, which documents reports of sexual violence and gender-based violence across the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. …
This is the second year that ASPI has run a series on The Strategist examining Australia’s approach to women, peace and security (WPS) to coincide with International Women’s Day. It’s an important topic that’s frequently …
The security challenge of conflict-related sexual violence The UN Security Council (UNSC) debated strategies for preventing and reducing conflict-related sexual violence in its annual debate on the issue last month. Speakers addressed structural discrimination and …