INFORMAL EXPERT GROUP ON WOMEN AND PEACE AND SECURITY: SUMMARY OF THE MEETING ON YEMEN, 4 MARCH 2019

On 4 March 2019, the Informal Expert Group on Women and Peace and Security convened a meeting on the situation in Yemen. Members of the Security Council were briefed by the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, accompanied by experts from his team and the United Nations country team.

Council members asked several questions about how to increase the direct involvement of women in the talks, beyond an advisory role to the Special Envoy, and in the implementation of the Stockholm agreement, and whether there is already a road map or strategy to achieve this, noting that there had been no information in this regard in the reporting to the Council so far on resolution 2451 (2018). Other questions centred on the United Nations steps to provide women and girls with adequate access to humanitarian assistance and services, prevent and respond to gender-based violence, including child marriage and conflict-related sexual violence, and support the women human rights defenders and journalists who are detained, attacked or disappeared.