UN chief says women still too often absent from peace talks

Associated press

Edith M. Lederer

Published on October 6, 2025 • 2 minutes of reading

Antonio General Secretary of the United Nations, Antonio Gaterris acts during a meeting of the Security Council at the United Nations headquarters, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at the UN headquarters. Photo by Yuki Ivamur /Access

The organization of the United Nations, twenty-five years after the UN resolution demanded equal participation for women in all efforts to promote the world, on Tuesday the head of the United Nations said that too often women remain absent.

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At the same time, sexual violence against women and girls is growing, and 676 million women live within 50 kilometers (30 miles) of deadly conflicts, which, according to the head of the UN female agency, have been the highest number since the 1990s.

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“All over the world, we see anxious trends in military expenses, more armed conflicts and more shocking cruelty towards women and girls,” said Antonio General General Secretary Antonio Gaterryz, who celebrates the anniversary.

According to him, from the moment the resolution was adopted on October 31, 2000, some progress has been achieved. The number of women in form as a peacekeepers of the UN doubled, women headed local mediation, advanced justice for gender violence survived in relation to gender, and female organizations played an important role in promoting recovery from conflicts and reconciliation.

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“But the winnings are fragile and – very alarming – going the other way around,” said Gutherry.

In the language of the Nivranis, Gaterrida said that too often countries gather in rooms, such as the Chamber of the Security Council, “complete condemnation and adherence”, but far from the requirements of the resolution on the equal participation of women in peaceful negotiations from rape and sexual violence in conflicts.

Despite the horrors of the war, the UN Executive Director of the woman Sima Bahus also pointed out some progress. She said that women reduced violence in the community in the contested region of Abia between Sudan and South Sudan and the Central African Republic.

According to her, in Haiti, women reached almost parity in the new preliminary election council, and the representative office of women in the National Assembly of the child doubled. The Provisional Constitution of Syria guarantees the rights and protection of women, and in women torn in the war, they succeeded in obtaining national efforts to provide assistance, helping women codified in the law.

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But Bahaus also said that it is persistent that the world today has become a witness to “the resumption of rejection of gender equality and multilaterality.” She said that the situation is aggravated by what she called a short -sighted reduction in financing.

These reductions undermine the possibilities of education for Afghan girls, limiting saving medical care for tens of thousands of survivors in sexual violence in Sudan, Haiti and beyond, as well as restriction of access to food for exhausted women and children in gas, Mali, Somalia and other places, Bakhus said.

She emphasized that the change is possible.

“It is clear that some can conclude that the growth and normalization of femininity is currently poisoning our policy and inciting conflicts cannot be stopped,” Bachus said. “This is wrong. Those who oppose equality do not own the future, we do. ”

Gutherers called on the UN member states of 193 to increase their commitment to women who fell into conflict with new financing, and ensuring their participation in peace negotiations, responsibility for sexual violence and their protection and economic security.