We welcome the Foreign Secretary’s @YvetteCooperMP commitment to the #WomenPeaceSecurity agenda on its 25th anniversary. The UK has reaffirmed its leadership on this agenda, now it’s time to back that commitment with action, funding & accountability. #UNSCR1325 #NoWomenNoPeace

On this anniversary, we stand in solidarity with all those advancing peace, equality, and justice in the most challenging contexts. #WPS25 #ReclaimWPS25

This month we supported the #ReclaimWPS25 initiative, decentralising and bringing the agenda back to communities, gathering regionally with WROs and CSOs and reflecting on progress, challenges and strategising for the future.

🌐 We must heed this warning. The WPS agenda is a global framework and its implementation is a collective responsibility. As penholder for WPS at the Security Council, the UK plays a pivotal role. #WomenPeaceSecurity

📢 The UN Secretary-General report offers a stark warning: “Amid record levels of armed conflict and violence, progress made over decades is vanishing before our eyes. Generational gains in women’s rights hang in the balance around the world".

We are witnessing a growing backlash against gender equality, rights, a shrinking of civic space, and detrimental cuts to funding that threaten the survival of the organisations, networks and institutions that uphold peace and security in their communities.

🚨Today is a moment to recognise and celebrate the efforts of all of those who pushed for, shaped, and have sustained this agenda. However, this anniversary comes at a time of escalating global crises.

The WPS agenda goes beyond negotiations. Across the world, women & marginalised groups drive peace, support survivors, lead crisis responses, work with displaced communities & beyond.

💡And the evidence is clear: women’s meaningful inclusion makes peace and security more durable and societies more resilient #WPS25 #UNSCR1325

UN Resolution 1325 was born from decades of activism by women’s rights advocates & activists, pracitioners and peacebuilders. It reshaped how we understand peace & security at the local, national and international levels.

📢 25 YEARS OF WOMEN, PEACE & SECURITY On 31 Oct 2000, the UN adopted Resolution 1325 on WPS, a landmark moment recognising that peace is impossible without women’s full & meaningful participation. #WPS25 #ReclaimWPS25

🗣 #WPSWednesday: “We are not withdrawing: we are reclaiming the #WPS agenda by re-rooting it in civil society where it continues to be lived, defended & demanded.” Read the full statement & sign on. #ReclaimWPS25+ @GAPS_Network . https://t.co/wNutSOdBIe

We encourage you to explore, share within your networks, and join the collective efforts using #ReclaimWPS25+ @Sihanet @CRbuildpeace @Saferworld @PAXforpeace @WomenforWomen @ResonateYemen @Redepaz_Oficial @genderplatform @seawpm_

📍 All information can be found on the GAPS website: https://t.co/sLefIksUqY 🗓️A full overview and a list of upcoming events can be found here:

Over the past months, conversations and collective planning has shaped these convening’s, which will be hosted in different parts of the world this Autumn. They will provide an important space for dialogue and mobilisation amid shrinking civic space and rollbacks on progress.

In response, the WPS community is mobilising collectively to host regional convening’s that create space for individuals and organisations that have made the WPS agenda what it is today to continue advancing their efforts.

📢 Call to Action: Reclaiming the WPS Agenda at 25 #ReclaimWPS25+ This year is the 25th anniversary of the WPS agenda, a key moment for reflection and recommitment. At the same time, this year's WPS Week in New York has become increasingly inaccessible for many

Just days left to sign our #WPS open letter calling on the #UNSC and Member States to take four critical actions to protect women’s rights and ensure the full realization of the #WPS agenda. 🤝 Add your voice here: https://t.co/bV7lj6nYCV

Let women lead. From peacekeeping to hunger, health to climate, the world will benefit | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Sahle-Work Zewde ⁦@YvetteCooperMP⁩ ⁦@GAPS_Network⁩ ⁦@giwps⁩

🔗Read the full report: https://t.co/rquq81mURA. (6/6)