🇵🇭 Cotabato City, #Philippines: PCID & the office of Deputy Floor Leader MP Atty. Suharto M. Ambolodto trained Bangsamoro hijabi police officers on gender-responsive policing. The training brings #WPS principles closer to the communities they serve.

🇵🇸 #Palestine: WCLAC held workshops with the Nahdet Bent Al-Rif Association, Jericho Ladies Association, & the Tubas Association, focusing on women’s rights & access to legal & social services, helping women better understand their rights & where to turn for support.

🇳🇬 Borno State, #Nigeria: With ICAN support, the Allamin Foundation convened the 2026 #SheBuildsPeace Campaign, bringing government, security, traditional & religious leaders together to spotlight everyday women #peacebuilders & the support they need to sustain their work.

🇮🇩 Manila, #Philippines: AMAN Indonesia convened 54 civil society organizations for the Southeast Asia CSO Forum on #WPS 2026 to assess progress, address democratic backsliding, & explore engagement with ASEAN—ensuring civil society voices help shape regional priorities.

This week's #WASLWeekly highlights women #peacebuilders transforming the Women, Peace & Security agenda from policy to reality.

Learn more about what this looks like in practice 👇

🗣️ #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...

Today in Brussels, we gathered with peacebuilders, civil society leaders, and EU officials for the official launch of Still, We Rise alongside consortium partners Kvinna till Kvinna, CMI - Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and @whatthewomensay.bsky.social.

Tomorrow, we launch 'Still, We Rise,' a three-year initiative funded by the European Union Foreign Policy Instrument alongside consortium partners Kvinna till Kvinna, CMI - Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and @whatthewomensay.bsky.social.

🤝 It’s a wrap! We were proud to partner with @whatthewomensay.bsky.social on the Security Reimagined Forum in The Hague this week.

Thank you to everyone who shared their experiences, expertise, and commitment to advancing the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Let's keep the conversation going! #WPS

Still, We Rise exists because this is not good enough.

Tomorrow, we begin 3 years of work to change who gets a seat at the table & ensure women’s voices shape the decisions that determine their futures.

Funded by the EU’s Foreign Policy Instrument.

@euinemergencies.ec.europa.eu

#StillWeRise

From #Syria & #Sudan to #Palestine & the #DRC, women are leading peacebuilding, relief & community resilience — while being locked out of formal decision-making.

They understand their communities best. They see conflict coming, hold communities together & build peace every day.