The purpose of SecurityWomen is to act as an advocacy organisation for the inclusion of more women in security sector institutions, including the military and police forces. SecurityWomen operates on a global basis.

SecurityWomen aims to highlight news items, academic papers, publications and reports on the subject of Women Peace and Security, and to monitor progress in the development of gender equality in security institutions, in particular, the increase of women in decision-making positions and advances towards a 50:50 gender balance.

Women In Security

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November 21, 2023

Ghana Armed Forces reaches 19% female deployment in peacekeeping operations

Ghana has now exceeded the United Nations' 9% target

November 15, 2023

Indonesian Peacekeeper to Receive 2023 United Nations Woman Police Officer of the Year Award

At 27-years-old, Police First Sergeant Renita Rismayanti is the youngest recipient of the award

November 13, 2023

Promoting Women in Law Enforcement in the Asia-Pacific

Women are often excluded from specialised and continuous training programmes

November 13, 2023

South Africa's first female submarine navigator dies at sea

Lieutenant Commander Gillian Malouw was one of three to die at sea

November 13, 2023

Nigerian army reaches 27.9% female participation in peace operations

This is 10% above the United Nations-set benchmark

November 3, 2023

Senate approves first woman to lead US Navy

Admiral Lisa Franchetti has been approved by the US Senate to lead the US Navy. She is the first woman to head a Pentagon military service branch and will join the Joint Chiefs of Staff which comprise the United States most senior military officers.

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Video by Vanessa Newby, WIIS Netherlands, for SecurityWomen Conference

November 1, 2023

Vanessa Newby, President of WIIS Netherlands, produced this video for SecurityWomen's Conference October 2023

Vanessa Newby

Do women make organisations better?

November 1, 2023

Here is a clip of the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour programme broadcast on 26th September 2023 which asks the above question and gives the example of policing.

The impact of anti-genderism on the Women Peace and Security Agenda in Central and Eastern Europe

August 26, 2023

Recently Europe has been witnessing the rise of the anti-gender movement, a series of interventions publicly opposing the so-called “gender ideology”. The anti-gender actors successfully managed to mobilise people against issues related to women’s rights, including reproductive services, marriage equality, sex education, gender studies and gender mainstreaming (Grzebalska et al., 2017). What started as an isolated incident in countries such as France, Croatia, Hungary or Poland, quickly transcended borders and became a transnational movement (Kuhar and Zobec, 2017), spreading across Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe.

Florina-Marieta Neagu

Service Complaints Ombudsman/person for the UK Armed Forces

August 23, 2023

The Ombudsman/person is an independent body, in its more recent 2016 incarnation, appointed by the Ministry of Defence, providing impartial oversight of the Service Complaints system for members of the UK Armed Forces. There are similar Ombudspeople in a number of countries.

Emily Dixon

Breaking barriers: A female forensic eye in a male-dominated field

August 23, 2023

My name is Laura Mitton and I hold the rank of Warrant Officer in the South African Police Service. I am currently employed as a Forensic Analyst specialising in Forensic Ballistics and I work at the Forensic Science Laboratory located in Cape Town, South Africa. This has been my story thus far.

Laura Mitton

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