Women Taking Ownership of Peace
‘In Their Hands: Women Taking Ownership of Peace’ - through the lens of women photographers.
Women across the globe are actively preventing conflict and building peace. As peacebuilders, decision-makers, changemakers and activists, women around the world have mediated with armed groups, negotiated and helped implement peace agreements, advanced political solutions, advocated for women’s rights and participation, led protest movements, built social cohesion and pushed for peaceful transitions from conflict to peace.
Yet, women are still frequently excluded from formal peace processes and decision-making. Their diverse experiences, knowledge and expertise often go unrecognized.
In 2000, the United Nations Security Council adopted its landmark resolution 1325, which recognized for the first time the importance of, and the need to strengthen, women’s full, equal, and meaningful participation in peace and political processes.
Twenty years and ten resolutions later, there has been progress but this promise has not been fully realized. Through these photos, we invite you to discover some of the many women bringing and maintaining peace in the Middle East, South America and Africa. And who better to capture their efforts than women photographers who share their struggles?
Photos in this album are from the multimedia exhibition created by the United Nations Department of Peace Operations, the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs together with UN Women and in partnership with Photoville.
www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/in-their-hands
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the peacekeeping missions, political missions and UNWomen offices in the Central African Republic, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen.
Women across the globe are actively preventing conflict and building peace. As peacebuilders, decision-makers, changemakers and activists, women around the world have mediated with armed groups, negotiated and helped implement peace agreements, advanced political solutions, advocated for women’s rights and participation, led protest movements, built social cohesion and pushed for peaceful transitions from conflict to peace.
Yet, women are still frequently excluded from formal peace processes and decision-making. Their diverse experiences, knowledge and expertise often go unrecognized.
In 2000, the United Nations Security Council adopted its landmark resolution 1325, which recognized for the first time the importance of, and the need to strengthen, women’s full, equal, and meaningful participation in peace and political processes.
Twenty years and ten resolutions later, there has been progress but this promise has not been fully realized. Through these photos, we invite you to discover some of the many women bringing and maintaining peace in the Middle East, South America and Africa. And who better to capture their efforts than women photographers who share their struggles?
Photos in this album are from the multimedia exhibition created by the United Nations Department of Peace Operations, the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs together with UN Women and in partnership with Photoville.
www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/in-their-hands
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the peacekeeping missions, political missions and UNWomen offices in the Central African Republic, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Mali, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen.
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