Exceptional women sought for book honour
The African Union Commission
(AUC) and the United Nations Office to the African Union (UNOAU) are calling
for nominations of African women who have exceptionally advanced the women,
peace and security agenda in Africa.
They will be featured in an
upcoming commemorative book set to be launched next year.
The initiative is part of the
activities for the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. At least twenty (20) African
women will be featured in the book. A chapter will be dedicated to each woman
to share her story or contribution to any of the four pillars of Resolution
1325 which are prevention, protection, participation and/or relief and recovery
as part of the peace and security activities.
Additionally the book aims to
send a message of encouragement to women across the continent and the rest of
the world by reflecting their exceptional stories and contributions to peace and
security on the continent to serve as a learning experience and motivation to
other women, especially young women involved in mediation, peacebuilding and
peacekeeping activities.
The book will be launched at the
margins of the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of State and Government of
the African Union (AU Summit) scheduled for February 2020 at the African Union
headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The African Union – United
Nations collaboration envisaged in this initiative reflects a greater
partnership between the two Organizations, marked by the signing of the UN-AU
Joint Framework for Enhanced Partnership in Peace and Security in April 2017 by
Moussa Faki Mahammat, AU Commission Chairperson and Antonio Guterres, UN
Secretary-General.
In the year 2000, the UN Security
Council adopted its landmark Resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and
security. It observed that conflict affects women differently and underscored
the importance for peace processes to be inclusive and address the needs, views
and ensure the participation of women in order to achieve positive outcomes and
a lasting peace dividend.
The nominations will close on the
12th of August 2019. To apply, visit commemorative book on UNSCR 1325 on
https://UNOAU.UNmissions.org/ and African women contributions to the peace and
security agenda on https://AU.int/
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