”Women, Peace and Security ”– Focal points network Conference
On November 7-9, the Ministry of National Defense in partnership with the United States of America's Department of State and UN Women organized the Conference "Women, Peace and Security Focal Points Network".
Representatives of the Romanian Institute for Human Rights participated in the event along with experts, special guests representatives of the UN, NATO, EU, OSCE, AU (African Union), as well as representatives of civil society and academia. During the Conference, the 2023 co-chairs of the Network (USA and Romania) reaffirmed their commitment to ensuring coherence and synergy within the National Focal Points Network to facilitate an effective mechanism in achieving WPS objectives.
The Romanian Institute for Human Rights is actively involved in promoting the achievement of the objective 5 of Sustainable Development – gender equality, as well as of the objectives 4 – quality education and 10 – reducing inequalities. Through the Working Group for women’s rights, representativeness and combating violence, as well as through its research, training and awareness activity, RIHR approaches the problems that women in Romanian society are facing in exercising their rights. The Institute promotes the need to ensure equal opportunities and treatment between women and men and combating violence in all its forms in a world of peace and security for all, where women’s participation in the decision-making process remains essential.
In the current security context, two topics of major importance were on the agenda, respectively Women in Security Sector and Women in Cyber Security, both fields being in a continuous evolution. During the presentations, the guests discussed a series of good practices in order to implement the Resolutions of the United Nations Security Council regarding the field of WPS (Women, Peace and Security), as well as the improvement of financing and assistance programs.
The Global Network of National Focal Points on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) was created to help Member States and regional organizations improve and strengthen the implementation of the WPS Agenda at all stages of the decision-making process.
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