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Politics enhancing and ensuring the security of our most affected communities.
It requires alignment of the Pacific Resilience Framework and the 2018 Boe Time to redesign the table
Declaration to enhancing the peace, development, humanitarian and human security Serious consideration must be given to shifting the power to national and local
nexus from an inclusive conflict-prevention approach that considers the root causes women’s rights actors, to strengthen agency, amplify voice, build on collaborative op-
of violence and conflict. portunities including women-led coalitions and feminist practices. We must support
It requires a new multi-actor consultative framework for regional peace and security local innovation.
that supports community representatives who can localise and operationalise women, Committing to these two principles will enable a shift from funding of crisis-reac-
youth and civil society peacebuilding, prevention and participation frameworks. We tion financing to gender-responsive peacebuilding and preventative action. This will
do not just need be consulted, but supported to enhance our infrastructures for peace also enable women’s leadership across the peace cycle, from the immediate response
and security at local and national level. and assessment through to recovery measures.
Participation requires greater accountability to human rights treaty commitments
Global Challenges including the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination
The UN Secretary General’s 2019 report on Women, Peace and Security is a clear against Women (CEDAW) when national action plans are being developed. It
reminder that since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) in 1995 also means financing and applying special measures to operationalise the WPS and
and the adoption of 10 security council resolutions dedicated to the women, peace human rights agenda.
and security agenda, there are record levels of political violence targeting women were
demonstrated in new data published in May 2019. It must pave the way for better protection for women’s peace activists and preven-
Over 50 parties to conflict are credibly suspected of having committed or instigated tion of all forms of violence. There must be sustained resourcing for inclusive and
patterns of rape and other forms of sexual violence in situations on the agenda of the innovative peacebuilding practice and leadership, including the wider civil society
Security Council and at least 1 in 5 refugee or displaced women experience sexual and social movements including traditional systems and faith communities.
violence and 9 out of the 10 countries with the highest rates of child marriage are in Instead of military spending and militarised solutions, there must be resources so
fragile contexts. In 2019 alone, nearly 132 million people need humanitarian aid young women can design peaceful and secure futures alongside other generations.
and protection, including an estimated 35 million women, young women and girls 2020 is an opportunity to strengthen the way we plan and respond to peace and
who require lifesaving sexual and reproductive health services, and interventions to security issues, by ensuring women can lead, and so ensure the needs of our most
prevent gender-based violence and respond to the needs of survivors. Findings by the vulnerable communities are being met.
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders show that the rise of
misogynistic, sexist and homophobic speech by political leaders in recent years has Sharon Bhagwan Rolls is the Chairperson, Gender Liaison and Pacific regional represen-
contributed to increased violence against women, against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- tative of GPPAC – the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. She is the
gender, queer and intersex individuals, and against women human rights defenders. Technical Adviser of the Shifting the Power Coalition. sbhagwanrolls@gmail.com
The Pacific is not immune to these issues.

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