Women's Platform
@womensplatformni.bsky.social
We work to amplify the voices of women and girls in Northern Ireland,support women to use international human rights frameworks, & advocate for a gender equal society based on human rights frameworks.Charity no NIC108453.
https://linktr.ee/womensplatformni
https://linktr.ee/womensplatformni
A reminder that gender equality is not a concession or an extra. As these words from Nahla Haidar, Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, make clear,equality is fundamental to justice, peace, & progress for all people.
#festivefocus #Womensplatformni
#festivefocus #Womensplatformni
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A reminder that gender equality is not a concession or an extra. As these words from Nahla Haidar, Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, make clear,equality is fundamental to justice, peace, & progress for all people.
#festivefocus #Womensplatformni
#festivefocus #Womensplatformni
In the festive season, we’re reflecting on what keeps our work focused. We’ll be sharing quotes that speak to this commitment, including these words from Sima Bahous, which remind us that the pursuit of gender equality goes beyond moments or milestones & continues year round.
December 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
In the festive season, we’re reflecting on what keeps our work focused. We’ll be sharing quotes that speak to this commitment, including these words from Sima Bahous, which remind us that the pursuit of gender equality goes beyond moments or milestones & continues year round.
As we mark Human Rights Day we are reminded that women's & girls' rights are fundamental human rights. We must fight online abuse, gender-based violence & ensure equality in education, pay, social protection & political participation #womensplatformni #humanrightsday2025 #allwomen
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
As we mark Human Rights Day we are reminded that women's & girls' rights are fundamental human rights. We must fight online abuse, gender-based violence & ensure equality in education, pay, social protection & political participation #womensplatformni #humanrightsday2025 #allwomen
2024: Global Digital Compact set the 1st UN-wide standards for digital safety & AI governance. UNGA adopted a resolution on violence against women in digital environments.UN Statistical Commission began developing methods to measure tech-facilitated GBV. We must keep advocating!
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
2024: Global Digital Compact set the 1st UN-wide standards for digital safety & AI governance. UNGA adopted a resolution on violence against women in digital environments.UN Statistical Commission began developing methods to measure tech-facilitated GBV. We must keep advocating!
We must act to stop digital abuse. #16DaysofActivism campaign calls on: Governments: pass laws criminalising violence & protecting data. Tech: ensure platform safety & remove harmful content.Donors:fund feminist orgs.Individuals:speak out, support survivors, challenge harmful norms.#EndDigitalAbuse
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
We must act to stop digital abuse. #16DaysofActivism campaign calls on: Governments: pass laws criminalising violence & protecting data. Tech: ensure platform safety & remove harmful content.Donors:fund feminist orgs.Individuals:speak out, support survivors, challenge harmful norms.#EndDigitalAbuse
Digital tools are increasingly used to harm women & girls. This includes non-consensual sharing of intimate images (revenge porn), cyberbullying, online threats, sexual harassment, AI-generated deepfakes, and online hate speech or disinformation. #16DaysOfActivism #EndGenderBasedViolence
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Digital tools are increasingly used to harm women & girls. This includes non-consensual sharing of intimate images (revenge porn), cyberbullying, online threats, sexual harassment, AI-generated deepfakes, and online hate speech or disinformation. #16DaysOfActivism #EndGenderBasedViolence
Violence against women and girls affects 1 in 3. As we mark 30 years since the Beijing Platform for Action, the UNiTE 2025 campaign highlights the urgent rise of digital violence. Digital safety is essential to gender equality, we all have a role to play.
#UNiTE2025 #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #endVAWG
#UNiTE2025 #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #endVAWG
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Violence against women and girls affects 1 in 3. As we mark 30 years since the Beijing Platform for Action, the UNiTE 2025 campaign highlights the urgent rise of digital violence. Digital safety is essential to gender equality, we all have a role to play.
#UNiTE2025 #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #endVAWG
#UNiTE2025 #EndViolenceAgainstWomen #endVAWG
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women & the launch of the UNiTE campaign. 16 days of activism run until Dec 10, Human Rights Day. This year, focus: online violence silencing women in politics, activism & journalism.
#16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV
#16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV
November 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women & the launch of the UNiTE campaign. 16 days of activism run until Dec 10, Human Rights Day. This year, focus: online violence silencing women in politics, activism & journalism.
#16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV
#16DaysOfActivism #EndGBV
Without funding, women’s rights movements risk fading into silence. Cuts often come with repression and shrinking civic space, forcing WROs to focus on service provision instead of advocacy and leaving critical issues like gender-based violence, abortion, and LGBTIQ+ rights under-addressed. Report⬇️⬇️
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Without funding, women’s rights movements risk fading into silence. Cuts often come with repression and shrinking civic space, forcing WROs to focus on service provision instead of advocacy and leaving critical issues like gender-based violence, abortion, and LGBTIQ+ rights under-addressed. Report⬇️⬇️
“Now is not the time to reduce funding for women & girls, it is the time to strengthen it. Around the world, women are on the frontlines of peace-building, economic recovery, health care, education, & climate resilience. Cutting support now would not only reverse decades of progress.” More Below...
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Now is not the time to reduce funding for women & girls, it is the time to strengthen it. Around the world, women are on the frontlines of peace-building, economic recovery, health care, education, & climate resilience. Cutting support now would not only reverse decades of progress.” More Below...
Evidence shows violence against women & girls (VAWG) is preventable. Women’s rights organisations (WROs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) are key to policy change & are often the only source of support for those facing violence or discrimination
#WomensPlatformNI
#EndVAWG
#WomensPlatformNI
#EndVAWG
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Evidence shows violence against women & girls (VAWG) is preventable. Women’s rights organisations (WROs) and civil society organisations (CSOs) are key to policy change & are often the only source of support for those facing violence or discrimination
#WomensPlatformNI
#EndVAWG
#WomensPlatformNI
#EndVAWG
New UN Women report warns that aid cuts are exacerbating impunity, increasing risks for women & girls, & undermining decades of progress, putting SDG 5: Gender Equality, at serious risk. We need urgent, sustained investment & stronger feminist movements. Report linked below 👇
November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
New UN Women report warns that aid cuts are exacerbating impunity, increasing risks for women & girls, & undermining decades of progress, putting SDG 5: Gender Equality, at serious risk. We need urgent, sustained investment & stronger feminist movements. Report linked below 👇
New #UNWomen report shows how global aid cuts are hitting women’s orgs & services.Aid cuts are forcing women’s orgs to scale back life-saving services & stop prevention programs.Nearly 90% report reduced access for women & girls
Link www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/act
Link www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/act
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
New #UNWomen report shows how global aid cuts are hitting women’s orgs & services.Aid cuts are forcing women’s orgs to scale back life-saving services & stop prevention programs.Nearly 90% report reduced access for women & girls
Link www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/act
Link www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/ending-violence-against-women/act
1 in 3 women globally face violence. Progress is stalling, and women’s rights organistions are on the frontlines, providing support and fighting back despite financial crises and growing threats. Read more (UN report) here: knowledge.unwomen.org/sites/defaul...
#VAWG #WomensRights #WomensPlatformNI
#VAWG #WomensRights #WomensPlatformNI
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
1 in 3 women globally face violence. Progress is stalling, and women’s rights organistions are on the frontlines, providing support and fighting back despite financial crises and growing threats. Read more (UN report) here: knowledge.unwomen.org/sites/defaul...
#VAWG #WomensRights #WomensPlatformNI
#VAWG #WomensRights #WomensPlatformNI
We want to share the new @wrda-team.bsky.social toolkit, launched by Megan McClure Botha 🙌 at our Oct All‑Party Group meeting.It helps leaders push back against far‑right weaponisation of EVAWG campaigns.Includes messaging frameworks, media guidance, key facts & more. Email [email protected] to access.
November 3, 2025 at 12:04 PM
We want to share the new @wrda-team.bsky.social toolkit, launched by Megan McClure Botha 🙌 at our Oct All‑Party Group meeting.It helps leaders push back against far‑right weaponisation of EVAWG campaigns.Includes messaging frameworks, media guidance, key facts & more. Email [email protected] to access.
The UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, set out in UNSCR 1325, was meant to put women at the centre of peacebuilding but is often sidelined.
With conflicts at their highest since 1946, feminist antimilitarist voices are more vital than ever. #WPS #UNSCR1325 #FeministPeace #WomensPlatformNI
With conflicts at their highest since 1946, feminist antimilitarist voices are more vital than ever. #WPS #UNSCR1325 #FeministPeace #WomensPlatformNI
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The UN’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda, set out in UNSCR 1325, was meant to put women at the centre of peacebuilding but is often sidelined.
With conflicts at their highest since 1946, feminist antimilitarist voices are more vital than ever. #WPS #UNSCR1325 #FeministPeace #WomensPlatformNI
With conflicts at their highest since 1946, feminist antimilitarist voices are more vital than ever. #WPS #UNSCR1325 #FeministPeace #WomensPlatformNI
Civil society remains indispensable: it drove the adoption of Resolution 1325, sustains its agenda, & continues to demand accountability and results.Without this pressure, the resolution risks losing substance. Defending the Women, Peace & Security Agenda is more urgent than ever #WomenPeaceSecurity
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Civil society remains indispensable: it drove the adoption of Resolution 1325, sustains its agenda, & continues to demand accountability and results.Without this pressure, the resolution risks losing substance. Defending the Women, Peace & Security Agenda is more urgent than ever #WomenPeaceSecurity
Many challenges remain for the WPS Agenda.
Laws haven’t transformed women’s lives in conflict.
Sexual violence continues with impunity, and participation in peace processes is still limited.To achieve sustainable peace, WPS must shift beyond securitisation to a truly feminist approach. #WPS
Laws haven’t transformed women’s lives in conflict.
Sexual violence continues with impunity, and participation in peace processes is still limited.To achieve sustainable peace, WPS must shift beyond securitisation to a truly feminist approach. #WPS
October 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Many challenges remain for the WPS Agenda.
Laws haven’t transformed women’s lives in conflict.
Sexual violence continues with impunity, and participation in peace processes is still limited.To achieve sustainable peace, WPS must shift beyond securitisation to a truly feminist approach. #WPS
Laws haven’t transformed women’s lives in conflict.
Sexual violence continues with impunity, and participation in peace processes is still limited.To achieve sustainable peace, WPS must shift beyond securitisation to a truly feminist approach. #WPS
The Women, Peace & Security (WPS) agenda, born from UN Resolution 1325, recognises women as vital to preventing conflict and building peace.
But civil society, especially women’s organisations, remains underfunded. It’s time to shift resources from hard security to sustainable, people-powered peace.
But civil society, especially women’s organisations, remains underfunded. It’s time to shift resources from hard security to sustainable, people-powered peace.
October 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The Women, Peace & Security (WPS) agenda, born from UN Resolution 1325, recognises women as vital to preventing conflict and building peace.
But civil society, especially women’s organisations, remains underfunded. It’s time to shift resources from hard security to sustainable, people-powered peace.
But civil society, especially women’s organisations, remains underfunded. It’s time to shift resources from hard security to sustainable, people-powered peace.
Key Lessons continued: 25 YEARS OF #WPS
✔️ Sustained support for women peacebuilders keeps women’s rights central to diplomacy.
✔️ Women’s leadership — especially young women — is key to prevention, resolution & lasting peace.
#WomenPlatformNI #UNSCR1325 #Peacebuilding #GenderEquality
✔️ Sustained support for women peacebuilders keeps women’s rights central to diplomacy.
✔️ Women’s leadership — especially young women — is key to prevention, resolution & lasting peace.
#WomenPlatformNI #UNSCR1325 #Peacebuilding #GenderEquality
October 17, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Key Lessons continued: 25 YEARS OF #WPS
✔️ Sustained support for women peacebuilders keeps women’s rights central to diplomacy.
✔️ Women’s leadership — especially young women — is key to prevention, resolution & lasting peace.
#WomenPlatformNI #UNSCR1325 #Peacebuilding #GenderEquality
✔️ Sustained support for women peacebuilders keeps women’s rights central to diplomacy.
✔️ Women’s leadership — especially young women — is key to prevention, resolution & lasting peace.
#WomenPlatformNI #UNSCR1325 #Peacebuilding #GenderEquality
Some key lessonS from 25 years of #WPS? ⚠️ Soft security matters. Progress under #UNSCR1325 risks being undermined by growing focus on hard security. ⚠️ Gendered disinformation is a real threat. Strong networks, online safety training & inclusion in National Action Plans are key.#WomenPlatformNI
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Some key lessonS from 25 years of #WPS? ⚠️ Soft security matters. Progress under #UNSCR1325 risks being undermined by growing focus on hard security. ⚠️ Gendered disinformation is a real threat. Strong networks, online safety training & inclusion in National Action Plans are key.#WomenPlatformNI
As the world reflects on 25 years of the Women, Peace & Security agenda, and looks to the next decade, the message is clear: lasting peace depends on women’s leadership. When women lead, peace follows. 📷: © UN Photo/UN7742214 — General Assembly, Welcome to USA Ceremony, New York, 23 October 1946
October 15, 2025 at 6:39 AM
As the world reflects on 25 years of the Women, Peace & Security agenda, and looks to the next decade, the message is clear: lasting peace depends on women’s leadership. When women lead, peace follows. 📷: © UN Photo/UN7742214 — General Assembly, Welcome to USA Ceremony, New York, 23 October 1946
2025 marks 25 years since the UN adopted the Women, Peace & Security agenda, recognising women’s essential roles in conflict prevention, peacebuilding, & recovery. The anniversary offers a chance to reflect on progress, confront persistent gaps, & push for more accountable action in the years ahead
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 AM
2025 marks 25 years since the UN adopted the Women, Peace & Security agenda, recognising women’s essential roles in conflict prevention, peacebuilding, & recovery. The anniversary offers a chance to reflect on progress, confront persistent gaps, & push for more accountable action in the years ahead
When women lead, peace follows. We echo @unwomenchief Sima Bahous: this is no time for commemoration, it’s time to refocus, recommit & deliver on #WPS & #UNSCR1325.Gaza’s women face unimaginable suffering.We welcome @unitednations aid, but lasting peace demands women at the table .
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 AM
When women lead, peace follows. We echo @unwomenchief Sima Bahous: this is no time for commemoration, it’s time to refocus, recommit & deliver on #WPS & #UNSCR1325.Gaza’s women face unimaginable suffering.We welcome @unitednations aid, but lasting peace demands women at the table .