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Resource List - UNGA80 Edition
Prepared by Jill Follows, IAW Alternate Representative to the UN/NYC in October 2025
Excerpt from the poem of Maryam Bukar Hassan, the first UN Global Advocate for Peace
Let us not forget those who have carried peace quietly through the fire
The women whose hands mend what war has torn
Who rebuild homes from memories
Raise children between checkpoints
Hold their families like nations
Because peace has always known the name of a woman, spoken through the way she chooses courage over collapse, again and again
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa (2021) pronounces that impunity is the biggest battle we fight today and that information integrity is the mother of all battles. In order to avoid an information Armageddon, we must fight for information integrity because if we don’t have facts then we don’t have truth. Without truth we don’t have trust in people or governments. She also called for drawing AI red lines, lines that end big tech’s impunity for disinformation. Maria Ressa – Nobel Women’s Initiative
Adoption of the Resolution on Revitalization of the Commission on the Status of Women The CSW will continue to convene its five-yearly review sessions in rotating locations and help bridge the gap between global commitments and local experiences. The revitalized CSW will hold an annual High-Level meeting, beginning with CSW70, on the topic of violence against women. https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/speech/2025/09/speech-gender-equality-remains-a-unifying-force-for-the-world-2025-must-be-our-turning-point
Executive Director of UNFPA, Ms. Diene Keita, reminds us that “sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights are a precondition for women’s empowerment and essential to dignity and development.”
Violence against Women and Girls in Sports The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls highlighted its report (A/79/325) on the causes and consequences of violence against women and girls in sports. https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/a79325-report-special-rapporteur-violence-against-women-and-girls-its
Spotlight Initiative is a global, multiparter trust fund of the UNSG that provides advice to the UN Deputy SG and harnesses civil society expertise to implement programs committed to ending violence against women ad girls. Who we are | Spotlight Initiative Actress and UN Global Advocate for Spotlight, Cecilia Suarez, pointed out the large disparity between global spending on gender equality vs defense/military spending. She asked everyone to consider why “we consider having the means of destruction more important than creating development and opportunities for women and girls?” Invest in women, not war: UN Global Advocate for Spotlight Initiative Cecilia Suárez calls for action on gender equality | Spotlight Initiative
CREATE Framework The Chair of the UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls, Claudia Flores, referenced the Working Group’s Guidance Document for achieving substantive gender equality. (CREATE) https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/tools-and-resources/ahrcwg11421-substantive-gender-equality-guidance-document-working A/HRC/WG.11/42/1 (March 14, 2025)
