On Tuesday 31 October, Ambassador Melanne Verveer joined the APPG on Women, Peace and Security and GAPS for a discussion on her work on Women, Peace and Security, and her hopes for creating meaningful change for women’s rights. Baroness Hodgson,…
On Wednesday 11 October, the APPG Friends of Syria and APPG on Women, Peace and Security hosted an event with Families For Freedom – a women-led campaign for the rights of all detainees in Syria. They call for the issue…
In November 2016 the UK Government partnered with GAPS to consult with women's civil society organisations and activists on the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) priorities in their contexts. The aim is to bring these women's voices directly to the…
Shaheen Chughtai reports back from a recent conversation at the UN Once in a while, the shroud of coded, diplomatic language that envelops discussions at the United Nations Security Council is ripped away by reality. On 25th October, it was…
GAPS is delighted to join our new host and long term member Women for Women International UK and their fantastic team. Together we hope to build on our strong foundation to make strides on the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Please…
UN event calls for doubling of women in peacekeeping operations over next five years Charities and women’s rights campaigners have given a cautious welcome to a raft of pledges by the United Nations, the United Kingdom and other governments to…
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS), for which GAPS provides the secretariat, recently hosted the Free Yezidi Foundation at a meeting attended by Parliamentarians, NGOs and academics. Read a report of the meeting here.
On 19th August, World Humanitarian Day, GAPS is joining with women's organisations in the global south to call for governments, UN agencies, civil society, private sector and others to agree to a World Humanitarian Summit pledge to empower women affected…
At a recent meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS), for which GAPS hosts the secretariat, 40 representatives from Parliament, Whitehall and civil society participated in a discussion on tackling sexual violence in Iraq and Syria.…
The Beijing Conference on Women marked an important moment in the struggle for gender equality and the rights of women and girls but, twenty years on, what’s changed? For a start, gender is now firmly on the agenda at least…