Twenty Years After Resolution 1325: Women Remain Undervalued in Peacebuilding

Advocates say the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of the women, peace and security agenda.

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in lockdowns that have led to a global surge in incidents of gender-based violence, has underscored the need for a much broader understanding of what defines security, according to Jacqueline O’Neill, Canada’s first ambassador for Women, Peace and Security (WPS).

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Hundreds of women join in a march ahead of Liberia’s presidential election, in Monrovia, Liberia, Oct. 9, 2017. On the eve of an election Tuesday that will almost certainly return male rule to Liberia after 12 years under President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, there is a palpable unease about whether the new leader can do what Sirleaf did: keep the country out of war. (Jane Hahn/The New York Times)