25 years of Women, Peace and Security – What has been achieved?

When: 23 October 2025 | 14:00-14:20

Format: Spotlight session

Venue: Plenary session (Weltsaal)

To mark the anniversary of the landmark Women, Peace and Security agenda (UNSC resolution 1325), this high-level spotlight session will explore normative and policy advances made over the last 25 years, as well as the linkages between gender, climate change and security and the need for more gender-responsive climate action in fragile and conflict-affected settings.  This session will also highlight how women’s organisations and networks continue to drive the agenda at the grassroots and international levels and can bridge gaps left by formal actors. Speakers will share practical examples, innovative solutions, and lessons learned to scale up inclusive and effective approaches move that beyond commitments to action. 

Speakers:

• Tonni Brodber, Head of Secretariat, Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund 

• H.E. Maria Fernanda Espinosa, Former President, United Nations General Assembly and former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of National Defense, Ecuador 

Moderated by Japhet William Graham Eichel, Gender, Climate, Peace and Security Specialist, UN Women 

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