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GLOBAL PETITION: No Peace Without Women

GOAL: 10,000 signatures by December 2025

Petition to be delivered to the UN Secretary-General, UN Security Council, and regional bodies (AU, EU, League of Arab States, OAS, ASEAN) ahead of CSW 2026.

We, the undersigned, call on the UN Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General, World leaders, governments, the United Nations, and regional organizations to take immediate and measurable action to fully implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security and CEDAW General Recommendation No. 40.

Resolution 1325: A Legal Framework, not a Recommendation

Twenty-four years ago, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1325

the first binding legal instrument to recognize that women’s protection, participation, and

rights must be central to conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and post-conflict recovery

As a fundamental right and an essential part of the solution.

Resolution 1325 and its subsequent resolutions (1820, 1888, 1889, and others) established a

Four Pillar Framework:

• Prevention of conflict and gender-based violence;
• Protection of the rights of women and girls in conflict settings;
• Participation & Equal Representationof women in peace processes and decision-making;
• Relief and Recovery, including legal, economic, and psychosocial support.

Legally, these resolutions are not optional. They are grounded in states’ obligations under:

• The UN Charter (Art. 1 & 55),
• International Humanitarian Law (Geneva Conventions),
• International Human Rights Law, in particular,the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW),
• And customary international law, especially as it relates to crimes of sexual violence in armed conflict, now well established under the Rome Statute of the ICC (Articles 7 and 8).

Yet despite these frameworks, UNDERREPRESENTATION AND impunity prevails

For 25 years, UNSCR 1325 has recognized women’s equal and meaningful participation as essential to peace and security. GR 40 strengthens this obligation by requiring States to ensure women’s full inclusion in all decision-making systems, especially in conflict prevention, resolution, peacebuilding, and recovery.

During the annual Security Council Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security held on 24 October 2024, the Secretary-General’s “Common Pledge for Women’s Full, Equal and Meaningful Participation in Peace Processes” was officially launched[1].

Yet today:

• Underrepresentation: Only 13% of peace negotiators between 1992–2019 were women[2].
• In 2023 the percentage remained low, with women making up to only 9,6% of negotiators in over 50 peace processes analyzed[3].
• Trends suggest this underrepresentation continues, though with slight variations and efforts to increase participation, according to the UN.
• Underfunding: Less than 1% of global funding for peacebuilding is allocated to gender equality efforts.
• Targeted attacks: Women human rights defenders and peacebuilders face increasing threats, surveillance, and even assassination in conflict zones.

We demand that all States and relevant bodies:

1. Guarantee PARITY by 2030 in all peace negotiations, mediation teams, and post-conflict governance structures.
2. Allocate a minimum of 15% of peace and security funding to gender equality and women’s empowerment, as committed in global frameworks.
3. Create NEW binding accountability mechanisms with annual public reporting on progress, in line with GR 40’s requirements.
4. Protect women human rights defenders and peacebuilders from threats, reprisals, and gender-based violence.
5. Ensure women’s EQUAL participation in all disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) processes, as well as security and defence sector reforms.

2025 A PIVOTAL YEAR

Our CALL: No Peace Without Women.

We refuse another decade of symbolic resolutions without enforcement.
Women’s EQUAL REPRESENTATIONis not optional — it is VITAL for sustainable peace, human rights, and security.
PARITY BY 2030!

Join Us

Initiated by:
Patricia Elias - G100 Global Chair for Government & Ministerial Advocacy

Contact: Patricia Elias on Linkedin

Supporting Organizations / Networks / NGOs:

- G100 Mission Million (Global)

- Soroptimist International (Global)

- NGO CSW Geneva (Global, Switzerland

- CSR Dialogforum - Kompetenzzentrum für integrierte Nachhaltigkeit in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Linz- Austria)

- International Alliance of Women (IAW) (Global- Switzerland)

- WFWPI : Women Federation for World Peace International (New York/Switzerland/Vienna)

- National Human Rights Commission of Democratic Republic of Congo

- International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) (Global, South Korea)

- Regard de Femmes (France)

- 2GAP - Gender and Governance Action Platform (France)

- UAP-ZLECAF (Île Maurice)

- PAXAFRICA (Yaoundé Cameroon)

- Peace Women Partners International (Philippines)

- Le Cercle Mandela (France)

- Solidarité Active France (SAF) (France)

- Réseau Afrique-Europe (France)

- Association Lakota Nouvelle Vision (Côte d'Ivoire)

- Universal Truth CIC (Scotland, UK)

- Loubnaniyoun ( Lebanon)

- Peace Partner & Miracle "T"s Movement, LLC (TAPN2U)(Global- USA)

- Chirico Consulting Brx (Belgium)