Happy New Year to all our subscribers, and welcome to our January wrap-up! We are excited to start off 2022 by welcoming a new member into the GAPS network: Christian Aid. Christian Aid works primarily in countries affected by conflict…
Welcome to both our December newsletter and 2021 wrap up. It has been an eventful year for the GAPS Team, and as we come to the end of 2021, our team and members are looking forward to taking a break…
Welcome to our November wrap-up. This month, all eyes were on COP26 as global leaders, civil society and climate change activists gathered in Glasgow to discuss solutions to the climate crisis. As part of an effort to integrate the women, peace and security and climate…
Welcome to our October wrap up! October was women, peace and security month at the UN. Ahead of the UN Open Debate on the 21st of the month, GAPS called on the international community to reaffirm its commitments to the women, peace and security agenda including but not limited to issues around; gender equality; women’s political…
Welcome to our September Wrap-Up! As you may have seen this month, the cabinet reshuffle saw the appointment of a new Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss. GAPS, along with other organisations, met with the new Foreign Secretary and Minister Wendy Morton,…
Updates Response to the Crisis in Afghanistan On Monday 17th August, GAPS wrote to the Prime Minister, and the Secretaries of State for the Home Department, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, and Defence about the life-threatening situation facing women and…
Updates Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action (WPSHA) Compact GAPS has been a vocal part of the global push for the WPSHA Compact and is proud to be both a signatory and a catalytic member in the movement for…
Updates Feminist Peace Series Magazine. The first edition of the Feminist Peace Series from Women’s International Peace Centre provides various understanding of Feminist Peace with perspectives from practitioners, partners and colleagues in the field of peace building. Feminist Peace is…
Updates UK Government’s Annual Report to Parliament in 2020 & GAPS Shadow Report Launch On Thursday 29th April, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) and GAPS hosted the UK Government’s Oral Report to Parliament in 2020…
Updates New GAPS Briefings! GAPS' Now and the Future - Pandemics and Crisis: Gender Equality, Peace and Security in a COVID-19 World and Beyond: Briefing follows the earlier launched Now and the Future - Pandemics and Crisis: Gender Equality, Peace…