Feminist leadership

Women’s rights organizations (WROs) and women-led organizations (WLOs) play a vital role in humanitarian response, yet their presence in humanitarian coordination spaces does not necessarily translate into influence. Drawing on research from Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory, Syria and Yemen, this briefing paper examines the institutional, financial and gendered barriers that constrain WROs/WLOs’ influence over […]

Twenty-five years after the United Nations adopted Resolution 1325, the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is both a landmark in diplomacy and a study in unfulfilled promise. Its most profound achievement has been to force open a conversation about the gendered power structures that fuel conflict. But that opening is narrowing. Escalating wars, a […]