🗣️ #WPSWednesday: "To give the prize to Navi Pillay signals the importance of our institutions, the struggle we had to go through to get them, & the importance they have in the present & future.” ICAN’s @sanambna.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social: icanpeacework.org/wp-content/u...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “We urge current & incoming members of the Security Council to urgently step up efforts to safeguard & uphold the principles & norms of the #WPS agenda ahead of this year’s annual open debate.”

@ngowgwps.bsky.social: www.womenpeacesecurity.org/resource/202...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “This well-deserved recognition is a victory for international justice, human rights, & all victims of war, oppression, & genocide.”

We join the Nobel Women’s Initiative in congratulating Navi Pillay on winning the #NobelPeacePrize: www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/nwi-congratu...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “In most of these conflicts, it's the local community organizations, often led by women who are the first to run in to protect, mitigate the violence, & provide #humanitarian assistance.”

ICAN’s @sanambna.bsky.social on The Globalist: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “What it needs is a concerted diplomatic effort that is inclusive, that includes #Yemeni women who have been the #peacebuilders in the country.”

ICAN’s @sanambna.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk: www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbcn...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “I want #peacebuilders on both sides. I don’t want diplomats who only talk about military issues, bombs & murders.”

#WASL partner Maya Yamout speaks to ABC at ICAN’s Forum #SecurityReimagined: www.abc.es/internaciona...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “The politics of force doesn't work. The result always ends up being sadness, grief, disease & poverty.”

#WASL partner Maya Yamout speaks to Imane Rachidi, Swiss Info, at ICAN’s Forum #SecurityReimagined: www.swissinfo.ch/spa/la-paz-e...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “When we have to drive through a checkpoint, she freezes with fear & pretends to be asleep.”

#WASL partner Lucy Talgieh speaks to Isabelle Bolle, @parool.nl, at ICAN’s Forum #SecurityReimagined: www.parool.nl/wereld/activ...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “The international community has been ‘managing the conflict’ between #Israelis & #Palestinians ‘instead of resolving it’.”

#WASL partner Lucy Talgieh speaks to Imane Rachidi, Swiss Info at ICAN’s Forum #SecurityReimagined: www.swissinfo.ch/spa/exviceal...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “This is how #Afghan women dodge the prohibitions of the Taliban who have expelled them from education, the labor market & the public space.” #WASL partner Wazhma Frogh speaks to El Nacional at ICAN’s Forum #SecurityReimagined: www.elnacional.com/2026/10/la-r...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday “ The world needs to finally move the conversation to those who are qualified to speak for themselves.” Annie Pforzheimer & Mursal Kabir @ipinst.bsky.social: theglobalobservatory.org/2026/10/desi...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday “The conversations at the ICAN Forum made that question even more visible to me. Women working in very different contexts described complex strategies for keeping people safe, maintaining relationships & creating room for peace.” www.mensenmeteenmissie.nl/en/ruby-khol...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday “We need a secretary-general who will lead us into the future that this next generation is going to live in.” Damilola Banjo @passblue.bsky.social: passblue.com/2026/10/05/w...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday “The Taliban "specifically targeted girls & women by reason of their gender”, Felix Tamsut: www.dw.com/en/icc-unsea...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday “The loss is both practical & moral. In many conflicts, women have political networks that men do not. They can connect #humanitarian actors with communities & act as bridges & brokers who can link local leaders with national processes.” Cristal Donwing: time.com/article/2026...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: #WASL partner “Allamin Foundation mobilises 200 Borno community leaders to prevent violent extremism, promote peace”, Sadiq Abubakar, National Accord Newspaper: nationalaccordnewspaper.com/allamin-foun...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Women are not victims. On the contrary: all over the world, even in the harshest & most violent environments, women continue to lead, organise, mediate, & document violations.” UN High Commissioner Volker Türk at ICAN’s #SecurityReimagined: news.un.org/en/story/202...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “For 3 years, Nisreen Touman has gone to bed every night in tears, remembering all she has lost since the start of Israel’s war on #Gaza in October 2023”, Maram Humaid @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social: www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Let this anniversary mark not only another year of mourning, but also a renewed determination to build a different future.” Antonio Gutterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations: press.un.org/en/2026/sgsm...

🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Repeated delays in bringing life-saving medicines, prosthetics & other supplies from Israel into #Gaza risk having devastating consequences for #Palestinians who urgently need them.” @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...