Mr. Anwarul K. Chowdhury United Nations Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States at the 816th Wilton Park Conference on Peace and Security: Implem

816th Wilton Park Conference on Peace and Security: Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in Sussex, England on 30 May, 2006. The agenda of this conference was to address the challenges facing the implementation process of UN-SCR 1325. UN Under-Secretary-General Chowdhury adressed the under-recognized and under-utilized contributions of women to the peace process and acknowledged the violence against women and girls in armed conflict. Some challenges he identified were the lack of women participating in the SC deliberations and that womens needs were not being taken into consideration.