UN Report on Women, Peace, and Security: Progress Unraveling

Global Trends in Women, Peace, and Security

• 🌍 The UN Secretary-General's 2025 report reveals a world moving in the wrong direction, with gender equality and multilateralism under attack.
• 📈 Military spending is at record levels, while women remain largely excluded from decisions on war and peace.
• ⚠️ Civilian casualties among women and children in conflict have quadrupled in two years, and conflict-related sexual violence increased by 87%.
• 📍 Nearly 700 million women now live within 50 kilometers of deadly conflict, the highest number since the 1990s.

Unfulfilled Promises of Resolution 1325

• 📜 Twenty-five years after Security Council Resolution 1325, despite progress in laws and support for survivors, women are still shut out of peace negotiations.
• 📉 Funding for women's organizations on the front lines is drying up, with many facing closure, leaving communities without support.
• 🕊️ While women's participation makes peace more durable, women comprise only 7% of negotiators and 14% of mediators globally.
• 💰 Global military spending surpasses USD 2.7 trillion, while women's organizations receive only 0.4% of aid.

Barriers to Women's Participation

• 🏛️ Women are often not fully represented in decision-making structures of governance and the security sector.
• 🛡️ Lack of adequate protection for women peacebuilders and human rights defenders is a significant barrier.
• 💸 Insufficient funding that prioritizes women's participation in peace processes remains a critical issue.

Addressing the Crisis

• 🎯 The report calls for binding targets and quotas to ensure women's full participation in peace and political processes.
• ⚖️ There is an urgent need for accountability for all acts of gender-based persecution and conflict-related sexual violence.
• 📊 A gender data revolution is crucial to make women's experiences in crisis visible and accounted for.
• 🚀 When women lead, peace is more possible, recovery is faster, and societies are stronger.