Twenty-five years on: Reigniting the WPS Agenda in Response to Growing Conflict and Climate Crisis

25 Years of WPS: Resistance & Resilience among Myanmar Women

This discussion paper captures powerful reflections from Myanmar women on 25 years of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Against the backdrop of ongoing armed conflict, systemic sexual violence, and a deepening humanitarian crisis, it highlights how women-led and gender-diverse organisations continue to drive resistance, provide lifesaving support, and build frameworks for peace and justice, often at great personal risk. The paper calls for urgent international solidarity, direct funding for women’s organisations, and the inclusion of diverse voices as central actors in peacebuilding and democracy movements in Myanmar.

Climate and Women, Peace & Security

This report explores the urgent intersections between climate change, gender equality, peace and security. It highlights how women and girls, particularly in conflict-affected, rural, coastal and Indigenous communities, are disproportionately impacted by climate disasters, displacement and insecurity, yet too often excluded from decision-making. Drawing on feminist knowledge and practice, the report outlines why the gender, climate and security nexus must be central to Australia’s responses, calling for action that centres women’s leadership, strengthens peacebuilding, and advances gender equality as essential to climate resilience.

Twenty-five years on: Reigniting the WPS Agenda in Response to Growing Conflict and Climate Crisis
Concluding Statement & Recommendations

These recommendations are based on discussions by over 60 civil society participants from 18 countries at the Asia-Pacific Regional Convening on Women, Peace and Security, hosted by the Australian Civil Society Coalition for Women, Peace and Security in Brisbane, Australia, on 26–27 August 2025.