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UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2018-2022 UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2018-2022: Annual Report to Parliament 2020 UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2018-2022: Annual Report to Parliament 2020 Contents Section One: Ministerial Forewords .........................................................2 Section Two: Introduction ........................................................................4 Section Three: Responding to feedback ................................................6 Section Four: Focus Countries ...............................................................8 Afghanistan ........................................................................................................................9 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) .............................................................................. 10 Iraq .................................................................................................................................. 12 Libya ................................................................................................................................ 13 Myanmar ......................................................................................................................... 15 Nigeria ............................................................................................................................. 17 Somalia ............................................................................................................................ 20 South Sudan .................................................................................................................... 21 Syria ................................................................................................................................ 23 Spotlight: Yemen .............................................................................................................. 25 Section Five: Indicators .........................................................................27 Section Six: WPS across the global UK network ..................................34 Section Seven: Multilateral Organisations .............................................36 African Union (AU) .............................................................................................................36 European Union (EU) .........................................................................................................36 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) .........................................................................36 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) .......................................... 37 United Nations (UN) .......................................................................................................... 37 Section Eight: UK capabilities ...............................................................39 Mainstreaming WPS in 2020 .............................................................................................39 Section Nine: Domestic application of the UK National Action Plan .....40 Senior appointments ......................................................................................................... 41 Endnotes ...............................................................................................42 1 UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2018-2022: Annual Report to Parliament 2020 UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2014–2017 Report to Parliament • December 2017 Section One: Ministerial Forewords Foreword Lord Ahmad ofThe Rt Hon The Rt Hon The RtRt HonHon Mark Wimbledon Dominic Raab MPAlistair Burt MP BenLancaster Wallace TD MP MP Minister of State for theSecretary of State for Foreign,Minister of State for the Department SecretaryMinister of of State State for for Defence Commonwealth and theCommonwealth and Developmentfor International Affairs Development the Armed Forces United Nations at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual ViolenceFCDO in Conflict General’s global Call to Action on protection from Gender- based violence (GBV). As co-leaders of the Generation For 20 years, the UK has been a proud global champion of Equality Action Coalition on Gender-Based Violence, we will the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, which aims use this global platform to drive more concerted, to enhance women’s role in conflict prevention, mediation coordinated global action to prevent GBV and support This report setsand out post-conflict the cross-Government reconstruction, and to actionprotect womenthat theand UKsurvivors has throughout taken the COVID-19 pandemic and its to improve gendergirls’ equality,rights in conflict. tackle We seesexual the impact violence of this initiative in conflict, in aftermath. and Weprotect recently provided an additional £1 million countries around the globe, whether it is enabling women to funding to the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence vulnerable peopleengage in conflictin Afghanistan’s zones peace from process sexual or reaching exploitation over 1.5 against and Women, abuse. on top of our existing £21 million million women with sexual and reproductive health services contribution. We are proud that the inUK Syria. continues to lead the world on 7,000 peacekeepers from African countries annually. At the Women, Peace and Security agenda, delivering on the UN PeacekeepingThe Defence UK remains Ministerial steadfast in London in its support in of women’s The report shows that two decades since the adoption of meaningful participation in peace processes. Last year we our commitments under our National Action Plan through 2016, the UK recognised the indispensable role of women the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which focussed on protecting the women who speak up for their practical support, diplomatic action, and funding. in peacekeeping, and we have continued to work with recognised that sustainable peace relies on inclusive peace, rights. The UK has supported the International Civil Society countries from across the world to increase the number of Our action to improve genderthe world equality is facing takes a very a number different set of challenges. Now, Action Network (ICAN) in developing the Protection women deployed to peacekeeping missions. of forms. A key aspectmore of it has than been ever, promoting states must the uphold and protect women Framework for women peacebuilders. This vital piece of participation of womenand in political girls’ rights processes and address and in the disproportionatelyIn partnership with thework Canadian provides and guidance Bangladeshi to states Chiefs and multilateralof mediation roles, for examplegendered we haveimpact supported of armed women’sconflict. Defence, the Vice Chieforganisations of Defence on Staff, how bestGeneral to prevent Sir Gordon and respond to reprisals. We have also continued our support to Women participation in the Syrian,Despite Somalian the best and intentions Colombian of the Peace global community,Messenger we launched the new WPS Chiefs of Defence Staff Mediators across the Commonwealth Network, dedicating Processes. Since February,face a the widening FCO’s implementationfirst ever Special gap. COVID-19Network is having at the a UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial in a further £1 million to their work to champion women’s Envoy for Gender Equality,significant Joanna impact. Roper, Thehas report also been describes theVancouver increase inof November 2017. The network aims to promote leadership and overcome the challenges facing women leading work to deliverviolence the Foreign against Secretary’s women andvision girls of aover the thelast integrationyear as a of gender perspectives into military planning mediators. foreign policy that consciously‘shadow and pandemic’. consistently delivers for and operations, and to improve the participation of women in women and girls. armed forces and peacekeeping.The Preventing These Sexual aims Violence are reflected in Conflict in Initiative (PSVI) The UK is working closely with international partners to remains a priority for the UK as we work to champion the ensure women and girls are at the centre ofthe global practices efforts the to UK armed forces are already adopting. Another aspect has been our ongoing work to protect cause of survivors worldwide. In June 2020, Lord (Tariq) vulnerable people by improvingrecover from peacekeeping. COVID-19. We Over support the last the UNThe Secretary importance of our work on gender is referenced in the three years the MOD has delivered pre-deployment training Strategic Defence and Security Review. It is also evident on gender and international humanitarian law to more than in ongoing work to incorporate gender perspectives into 2 1 UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2018-2022: Annual Report to Parliament 2020 Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State for the The UK’s Armed Forces now have a cadre of leaders Commonwealth and the UN and Prime Minister’s Special empowered to recognise, respond, refer and report on Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, human rights violations. Our people are better equipped to launched the draft Murad Code for global consultations and protect vulnerable people through the planning of further development. This is a global code of conduct to peacekeeping, humanitarian disaster relief and other ensure that work with survivors of conflict-related sexual operations. violence to investigate, document,
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