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The Women, Peace and Security Network - Canada (WPSN-C) is a network of Canadian NGOs & individuals advancing #WomenPeaceSecurity, monitoring 🇨🇦’s implementation of #WPS, and fostering civil society exchanges.
On Monday, we co-hosted a roundtable that brought together defence, research, and civil society actors to reflect on how we can collectively ensure that #WomenPeaceSecurity remains fit for purpose in a rapidly evolving security environment.
Stay tuned for the 'What We Heard' report back!
Bold white text on a yellow background says, Peace and security are not just about conflct prevention. They're about dignity, recognition, and justice. In lighter white text it says, Denise Koh.
More #16Days reading from Denise Koh: Peace Is Not Just the Absence of War: A Filipina Physician’s Reflection on Care, Power, and Exclusion
#WPS #WomenPeaceSecurity
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Bold white type on a yellow background reads: Climate change remains insufficiently integrated into WPS programming as an operational priority. This is the gap we must close if Canada, and its aid and peacebuilding partners, are to effectively tackle the climate crisis. In lighter white type it says, Chloé Silvestre and Rabab Rabbani.
Today's #16Days reading, Navigating the Perfect Storm: Leveraging Gender-Responsive Climate Justice for Peace and Security was written by Chloé Silvestre & Rabab Rabbani
#WPS #WomenPeaceSecurity
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Bold white text on a yellow background says: While Canada claims its firm commitment to the WPS agenda and broader human rights approaches, our domestic and foreign policy often invisibilizes the systemic inequities and historical legacies that continue to negatively impact racialized women. In lighter white text it says, Esra Bengizi.
More #16Days reading, today from Esra Bengizi on #WomenPeaceSecurity: What Resolution 1325 Means for Women of Colour in Canada and Beyond
#WPS
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Bold white text on a yellow background says: The challenge for Canada is not simply to consult women and young people, but to ensure that their engagement is detokenized, moving beyond symbolic representation and towards genuine power-sharing and decision-making, resource allocation, and accountability. In lighter white text it says, Shayne Wong.
Today's #16Days reading is from Shayne Wong: Detokenizing Civic Space: Leveraging #WPS – #YPS Synergies for Full Youth Engagement in #Canada
#WomenPeaceSecurity
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Bold white text on a yellow background says: Another critical obstacle to advancing the rights of women with disabilities within WPS is the paucity of disaggregated data. Without detailed information distinguishing women and girls with disabilities from other groups, policymakers lack a clear understanding of their specific challenges, needs, and contributions. In lighter white text it says, Anne Delorme and Sarah Keeler.
More #16Days reading from Anne Delorme and Sarah Keeler: Invisible No More: Women with Disabilities in the #WomenPeaceSecurity Agenda
#WPS
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Bold white text on a yellow background reads: CNAP3 presents an opportunity to move beyond tokenism and toward co-creation, embedding queer and trans voices in the heart of peace and security practice. In lighter white text it says, Alexandria Bohémier, Kim Vance-Mubanga, and Sarah Clifford.
Today's #16Days reading was co-written by Alexandria Bohémier, Kim Vance-Mubanga, and Sarah Clifford, From Reflection to Action: Queering Canada's #WPS Commitments at 25 Years
#WomenPeaceSecurity
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Bold white text on a yellow background says: To genuinely implement WPS, Canada must demilitarize its Indo-Pacific Strategy and ensure that it follows Resolution 1325 and fulfills the Beijing Platform for Action. A new IPS must aim to enhance the security, humans rights, and well-being of women and girls on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. In lighter white type it says: Tamara Lorincz.
More #16Days reading from @tamaralorincz.bsky.social: Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy militarizes Asia and undermines #WomenPeaceSecurity #WPS wpsn-canada.org/2025/12/05/1...
Bold white text on a yellow background says: Since geopolitical powers are failing to work towards a genuine peace--starting with a complete ceasefire--it is the women of Sudan who carry the torch for Resolution 1325 today, holding space for its untapped potential. In lighter white type it says, Rita Morbia.
Today's #16Days reading is "The 25th Anniversary of Resolution 1325 & #Sudan: Promises, Realities & Potential" from Rita Morbia #WPS #WomenPeaceSecurity
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Bold white text on a yellow background says: The genocide and resulting humanitarian crisis in Gaza have had a devastating impact on women, exacerbating existing gender inequalities and creating new vulnerabilities. In lighter white text it says, Mary Bridger.
Today's #16Daysr reading comes from Mary Bridger: The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: Impacts on Women and the Imperative of the #WomenPeaceSecurity Agenda
#WPS
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On a yellow background, bolded white text says, "For Canada, honouring the WPS agenda now means turning legacy into ongoing accountability. It means refusing to left Afghan women disappear from the story of peace." In lighter white text it says, Wazhma Frogh.
More #16Days reading: Afghan Women: The Forgotten Frontline of Peace by Wazhma Frogh
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#WPS #WomenPeaceSecurity #Afghanistan #Canada
On a yellow background, bold white text says: "Despite the ongoing recognition that to be effective, WPS NAPs require dedicated resources and costed budgets, CNAP3 fails to meet this global standard." In lighter white text it says, Beth Woroniuk.
Today's #16Days reading comes from Beth Woroniuk: Resourcing #CNAP3: Hallucination or a Plan with a Budget?
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#WPS #WomenPeaceSecurity
A yellow background with white text that says "More money on soldiers and weapons means less for foreign aid and development, health care, education, environmental protection, and climate action, which will make women and girls more insecure." followed by lighter white text that says Ellen Woodsworth and Tamara Lorincz
More #16Days reading with Ellen Woodsworth & @tamaralorincz.bsky.social on how Canada's Rising Military Spending Undermines #WomenPeaceSecurity
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A yellow background with white text that says "By failing to integrate climate justice, CNAP3 risks reinforcing a narrow and incomplete vision of peace that does not match the urgent realities of the 21st century." In lighter white text it then says, Nahid Azad.
#16Days reading from Nahid Azad: War, #ClimateChange, and the #WPS Agenda: Implications for #Canada’s CNAP3 and Beyond wpsn-canada.org/2025/12/01/1... #WomenPeaceSecurity
On a yellow background, there is white text that says: "A new Ambassador is critical to ensuring that CNAP3 commitments do not remain rhetorical, fragmented, or deprioritized, and in mobilizing political attention, resources, and accountability." Then, also in white text it says Bénédicte Santoire and Beth Woroniuk
#16Days reading: Beth Woroniuk and Bénédicte Santoire contributed a chapter in the new WPSN-C publication on "Renewing the Commitment: A New #WPS Ambassador Urgently Needed"
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#WomenPeaceSecurity
A yellow background with white text that says: "Canada’s CNAP3 will ultimately be judged not by its ambition, but by its implementation — by the resources invested, the leadership demonstrated, and the extent to which it centres those most affected by conflict and insecurity." followed by, in smaller text, Katrina Leclerc, Sandara Biskupski-Mujanovic, and Sarah Keeler
#16Days reading: Today we share the introduction to our lateest publication, #WPS at 25: A Moment of Reflection and Reckoning from the publication's editors: @leclerck.bsky.social @sandrabisk.bsky.social and Sarah Keeler
#WPS #WomenPeaceSecurity
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We'll be highlighting the specific chapters day by day, but to begin here's an overview from our intern, Jacky Ehombe: wpsn-canada.org/2025/11/26/1...
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We marked the beginning of #16Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence yesterday with the launch of our new publication, #WPS at 25 and Canada's #CNAP3: Feminist Reflections on Progress and Gaps!
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Latest on our blog from WPSN-C member Dr Denise Koh: What I Brought Home From Malaysia
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#WomenPeaceSecurity
White text on a green and yellow background featuring stylized female heads. The text reads: #WPSAdvice: Strengthening Engagement Between the Government of Canada and Civil Society Representatives, by Monique Cuillerier, Coordinator, WPSN-C
#WPSAdvice: Strengthening Engagement Between the Government of Canada and Civil Society Representatives revisits a report providing guidance & advice on how government staff might better interact and engage with women/2SLGBTQI+ rights defenders and peacebuilders
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🖤💚💙🤍💛❤️ July is #DisabilityPrideMonth — a time to celebrate disabled identities & leadership, and confront ableism as a barrier to peace & justice.
@wpsn-canada.org affirms: no feminist peace without disability justice.
#WPSNCanada #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
🌈 July is #DisabilityPrideMonth — a time to celebrate disabled identities, cultures & leadership, and confront ableism.
Canada’s 2023 Act reminds us: Disability is both an identity & a proud, diverse culture.
🔴🟡⚪🔵🟢🖤 The flag reflects this.
#WPSNCanada #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
🌍 Climate change fuels instability, GBV & displacement—hitting women hardest.
Feminist peace = climate justice.
Read @wpsn-canada.org Foundations for Peace in Turbulent Times:
🔗 wpsn-canada.org/publications
#WPS #ClimateJustice #FeministPeace ♻️💜
As CNAP 3 rolls out, @wpsn-canada asks: how do we centre lived realities at home?
🔹 Peace ≠ foreign policy
🔹 Safety is local
🔹 Real peace = accountability + change
🔹 Domestic action is a must
🔗 Read: wpsn-canada.org/publications/fostering-feminist-peace-at-home
#WPS #CNAP3 #FeministPeaceHome
The latest post in our #WPSAdvice series is up now!
Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy at a Crossroads: Sustaining Momentum Amid Political Transition from Sophia Papastavrou & Sarah Keeler
#WPS #WomenPeaceSecurity #Canada
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At #Geneva59, @wpsn-canada.org Chair @leclerck.bsky.social called for real, co-created partnerships—not symbolic ones.
Civil society is the engine of the WPS agenda.
📌 Full remarks: lnkd.in/epkjdZ59
#WPS #FeministForeignPolicy #Decolonization #Localization #TrustBasedFunding #WPSNCanada
📣 Members of the WPSN-C have sent an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand.
Read the full letter and help us amplify the call for feminist peace and security in Canada and globally: wpsn-canada.org/what-we-do/l...
#WomenPeaceSecurity
🌈 Thank you to everyone who joined us for Queering Peace and Security — a powerful Pride Month conversation on inclusion, resistance & justice in #WomenPeaceSecurity and #YouthPeaceSecurity spaces.
📽️ Missed it? Watch the full recording and read the blog recap here: wpsn-canada.org/2025/06/19/q...
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🌈 Join us for Queering Peace & Security - a powerful conversation on 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion in peacebuilding & security. Register at bit.ly/QPS-register
Confirmation will follow by email.
Hosted by:
• WCAPS-Canada
• @wpsn-canada.org
• CCYPS
• @interpares.bsky.social
• @egalecanada.bsky.social
Read our latest #WPSAdvice post from @shaynewong.bsky.social & @imogenfraserr.bsky.social of CCYPS: Building Peace at Home: Why #Canada Needs a #YouthPeaceSecurity Agenda
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#YPS #WPS #WomenPeaceSecurity #cdnpoli
