As signatories of the Shared Commitments on Women and Peace and Security (WPS), Ecuador, France, Guyana, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malta, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, together with incoming members in 2025, Denmark, Greece, and Panama, are committed to making WPS a top priority, and to ensuring its implementation in concrete and tangible ways.

We believe in the transformative power of the WPS agenda to enable the Security Council to fully realize its mandate to maintain international peace and security. We are determined to advance the implementation of the WPS agenda and ensure the Council approaches WPS in a systematic way to help close the persistent gap between rhetoric and reality, especially on the ground.

Women and girls have the right to participate fully, equally and meaningfully in all matters of peace and security, including conflict prevention, and to protection in situations of armed conflict, including from sexual and gender-based violence, in accordance with United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and international law, in particular, international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

Our shared goal is to ensure that the WPS agenda is fully and meaningfully integrated into all aspects of the Council’s work, including in country-specific discussions, and that the crucial work of women peacebuilders and human rights defenders in conflict prevention, peacebuilding and sustaining peace is supported and recognized.