It’s #WPSWeek, & #WASL partners are bringing lived experience & frontline expertise into global discussions. 🌍 This week’s #WASLWeekly highlights their work to counter disinformation, advance principled engagement in #Afghanistan, & ensure women #peacebuilders are recognized, protected, & funded. 👇

What does security mean to you? 🎥 At ICAN’s Women, Peace & Security Forum, we asked participants to reimagine security around care, dignity, & humanity. 👇 Hear from Patience Akumu & Alejandra Gomez Nieto. #SecurityReimagined

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “My hope comes from the everyday acts of people choosing to be on the right side of history, people saying they do not want to give oxygen to the violence we keep inflicting on each other.” Luca Akin speaks with Saji Prelis @giwps.bsky.social: giwps.georgetown.edu/2026/10/27/a...

A Conversation with Search for Common Ground Director Saji Prelis on Youth, Women, and the Work of Ending Violence - Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

A decade after the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2250, formally recognizing young people as partners in peace for the first time in its history, the gap between recognition and participation ...

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: As the UN Security Council convenes on #WPS, meaningful participation & accountability remain essential to advancing the WPS agenda. The decisions made in these spaces must reflect the priorities & expertise of women #peacebuilders & civil society. press.un.org/en/blog/sc16...

Security Council, 10254th Meeting (PM) Women, Peace and Security

At 3 p.m. today, the Security Council will hold its annual open debate on women, peace and security, which this year is titled “Women, peace and security in the next quarter century: fulfilling the pr...

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Our voice may be quiet, but it will never be silenced.” @ipsnews.net: www.ipsnews.net/2026/10/afgh...

Afghan Women Defy Taliban Restrictions Through Online Protests

Afghan women's protests continue online despite Taliban restrictions, as activists risk their safety to defend education, freedom and women's rights

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “We wanted to know who they were, what dreams they had, & what they were planning to achieve in the future.” Jinha Agency: jinhaagency.com/en/actual/ar...

"Archive of Life"... A Platform Documenting the Stories of Gaza Victims, Most of Them Women and Children

NAGHAM KARAJAPALESTINE_ With the voices of their families and loved ones, the "Archive of Life" project documents the stories of war victims in the Gaza Strip in Palestine, recovering the details...

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “The United Nations belongs to all its members. Its leadership should reflect that universal ownership.” Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdury, @ipsnews.net: www.ipsnews.net/2026/10/choo...

Choosing the Next UN Secretary-General: The Threat of Veto or Veto Itself Must Not Silence the World

The selection of the next Secretary-General of the United Nations has reached a critical juncture.

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “What is at stake is who can participate in #democracy without assuming a disproportionate risk to their integrity & well-being." Marcel Rios Torbar, Alejandra Sepulveda Penaranda, @latinoamerica21.bsky.social: latinoamerica21.com/en/digital-v...

Digital violence against women: The invisible cost of participating - Latinoamérica 21

L21 Analysis | A Joint Response Is Needed. Digital violence against women: The invisible cost of participating.

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “From #Afghanistan to the Ballot for Mayor of Kitchener” #WASL partner Wazhma Frogh reflects on her run for Mayor: thelegacywebuild.substack.com/p/from-afgha...

From Afghanistan to Running for Mayor: My Journey, My Gratitude, and My Hope for Kitchener

On Election Day, I reflect on five months of conversations, the challenges of belonging, and what this journey means to me as a woman born in Afghanistan.

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Listening to women’s accounts is not merely a humane addition to the pursuit of justice; it is an integral part of constructing the truth itself.” #WASL partner Mobaderoon: mobaderoon.org/%D8%B1%D9%88...

لماذا تُعدّ روايات النساء أساسية في مسار العدالة؟ - مبادرون

إن الاستماع إلى روايات النساء بعد الحروب والنزاعات ليس إضافة إنسانية لـ مسار العدالة، بل جزء من بناء الحقيقة نفسها.

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Al-Numeiri is one of the many women in #Sudan who have emerged from this war as #peacebuilders, mediators &frontline responders.” UN Women: www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “ #Afghanistan is the worst country in the world for a woman.” #WASL partner Zarqa Yaftali joined Inside Geneva, unpacking whether the Taliban is guilty of #GenderApartheid. Listen here: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/internat...

Is Afghanistan guilty of gender apartheid?

This week on our Inside Geneva podcast, we ask whether the world has forgotten women in Afghanistan.

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Women’s participation is not tokenism; it’s a women’s rights issue.” #WASL partners Dr Pauline Riak & Angelina Bazugba speak to Radio Tamazuj: www.radiotamazuj.org/en/news/arti...

South Sudanese women warn of reversal in representation gains - Radio Tamazuj

Women activists in South Sudan have accused the caretaker government of reversing gains in women’s

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Peace Palace Day: #SecurityReimagined 🧵 🏛️ Day 2 of ICAN’s 11th Women, Peace & Security Forum convened at the Peace Palace, carrying the legacy of advocates like Bertha von Suttner & marking the ICJ’s 80th anniversary this year. #ICANForum2026

Women #peacebuilders are bringing their expertise & experiences into the rooms where policies are shaped & decisions are made. 🌍 This week’s #WASLWeekly highlights te work of #WASL partners in advancing accountability, economic inclusion, & human rights. 👇

👑 We were honoured to welcome Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh to ICAN's 11th Women, Peace & Security Forum #SecurityReimagined in The Hague.

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Gaza needs everything. But first, #Gaza needs an end to the Israeli occupation & its reconstruction, so that people can live a dignified, protected, & honorable life.” Buthaina Subeh @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social www.middleeastmonitor.com/20261014-ret...

Returning to Gaza after two years

When I entered Gaza through the crossing, I was shocked and stunned by what I saw. Looking to my right and left, all the houses were destroyed, leaving no trace. The streets were unrecognizable. Ev…

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “With the absence of the judiciary, I have been left without a ruling to end my marriage & without any means of claiming my rights,” Rasha Abou Jalal, Drop Site: www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-women...

Destruction of Gaza Court System Strips Women of Their Rights

As they struggle to survive a genocide, Palestinian women in Gaza face seemingly insurmountable legal and bureaucratic obstacles to secure rights to inheritance, divorce, alimony, property and more.

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: In New Delhi, women are protesting outside of the police headquarters, calling out police brutality against female demonstrators during recent protests over elections. @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social: www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Women protest in New Delhi against police brutality

Women protest in New Delhi against police brutality

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Women have learned to focus on the present rather than postponing justice to the future. They demand it now.” Niloofar Gholami & Shabnam Von Hein: www.dw.com/en/in-iran-a...

In Iran, a young woman's murder by her male relatives has reignited the debate over 'honor' killings

The murder of a young mother has once again sparked debate in Iran over so-called honor killings, the social acceptance of violence against women and the lack of protection for people vulnerable to ge...

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “The world must honor their persistence & begin by ensuring they have a seat at the table.” Haleema Hasan & Lailuma Nasiri, @thediplomat.com: thediplomat.com/2026/10/we-h...

‘We Have Stitched Our Hearts to Hope’: The Unseen Resistance of Afghan Women Under Taliban Rule

Afghan women say that they respond to Taliban oppression in vastly different ways depending on their social, cultural, and personal contexts.

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “The marginalization of women is not an inevitable or predestined cultural process; it is something that is being imposed on them through specific policies.” Sania Farooqui, @globalissues.org: www.globalissues.org/news/2026/10...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “ICAN represents women #peacebuilders from all over the world & that it why this is the best institution to bring everyone together.” Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh reflects on ICAN’s Forum #SecurityReimagined, @midvliet.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_s...

Hertogin van Edinburgh & ICAN-CEO over Wereldvrede in het Vredespaleis!

YouTube video by Midvliet

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “However good police may be, however good security may be, they cannot offer people dignity” says #WASL Partner & PDP MLA Waheed Parra. Listen to the full interview: youtu.be/Sps6bQ10z70?...

Inside Kashmir Today | Ep. 1 | Waheed Parra (MLA) with Mani Shankar Aiyar (Former Union Minister)

YouTube video by Mani Shankar Aiyar

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🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Militarization does not equal peace” ICAN’s @sanambna.bsky.social joined @odi.global’s Think Change Podcast. Listen here: odi.org/en/insights/...

Think Change episode 108: is Europe preparing for the wrong kind of war?

From defence spending and deterrence to diplomacy, statecraft and the human costs of conflict, this episode explores how governments can respond to a world where security is no longer simply about pre...

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ICAN's 11th Women, Peace and Security Forum "Security Reimagined" began with a simple premise: to build a different future, we must first imagine it. Over 4 days in The Hague, the plenary sessions moved from realities, to ideas, to accountability. A thread 🧵 #SecurityReimagined

Women #peacebuilders around the world are strengthening the systems that keep their communities safe. This week’s #WASLWeekly spotlights how peacebuilders in the #WASL network are building digital security, leadership, health awareness, & protection for women & girls.👇

🗣️ In an interview with @skynewsrss.bsky.social, ICAN's @sanambna.bsky.social was asked whether Israel’s reaction to Navi Pillay’s findings on #Gaza risks overshadowing her wider legacy in human rights & international justice. Listen to Sanam's response 👇 #NobelPrize #NaviPillay

From 29 Sept to 2 Oct, we welcomed 65+ women #peacebuilders from around the world to The Hague for ICAN's 11th Women, Peace & Security Forum: #SecurityReimagined. 🕊️ We were honored to be joined for the first 2 days by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Edinburgh. #ICANForum2026

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: "To give the prize to Navi Pillay signals the importance of our institutions, the struggle we had to go through to get them, & the importance they have in the present & future.” ICAN’s @sanambna.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social: icanpeacework.org/wp-content/u...