WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:
General Women, Peace and Security: 6/17;
Conflict Prevention: 4/17;
Disarmament: 1/17;
Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 1/17;
Participation: 4/17;
Peace Processes: 5 /17;
Peacekeeping: 1/17;
Protection: 5/17;
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 4/17;
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 4/17;
Implementation: 2/17;
Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 2/17;
Human Rights: 5/17.

S/PV.7533: "First, in arranging all future peacebuilding events hosted by the United Kingdom, we will identify women involved in the conflict and shine a torch on them to ensure that their voices are heard. We will promote the active participation of women in such peacebuilding discussions through political and/or financial support. We will also provide support, including lobbying, at the highest levels, to ensure that women’s voices are represented in wider peace processes, negotiations and State-building. We will also provide support at the local levels so as to build the capacity of women to participate effectively. Second, the United Kingdom will contribute $1 million of start-up funding to the Global Acceleration Instrument for Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action to help address the global deficit in funding for the implementation of the resolution. We will also provide additional funding of over $800,000, each year for two years, to support new research at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics, bringing total Government funding from the United Kingdom for the Centre to over $3 million."

WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:
General Women, Peace and Security: 3/6;
Conflict Prevention: 2/6;
Disarmament: 0/6;
Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/6;
Participation: 2/6;
Peace Processes: 3/6;
Peacekeeping: 0/6;
Protection: 1/6;
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 3/6;
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 0/6;
Implementation: 1/6;
Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 2/6;
Human Rights: 3/6.

S/PV.7361: "Inclusivity is meaningless without women’s active participation in political institutions, peace negotiations and policymaking. Without women, we will only achieve unbalanced and unsustainable peace that ignores the needs of half the population. It is now nearly 15 years since the adoption of landmark resolution 1325 (2000), which for the first time recognised the unique impact that conflict has on women, as well as the significant contribution women can make to conflict prevention, resolution and peacebuilding."

WILPF/PeaceWomen themes covered:
General Women, Peace and Security: 1/1;
Conflict Prevention: 0/1;
Disarmament: 0/1;
Displacement and Humanitarian Response: 0/1;
Participation: 0/1;
Peace Processes: 0/1;
Peacekeeping: 0/1;
Protection: 1/1;
Reconstruction and Peacebuilding: 0/1;
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 1/1;
Implementation: 0/1;
Justice, Rule of Law, SSR: 0/1;
Human Rights: 1/1.

S/PV.7374: "The protection of civilians by peacekeepers must address the needs of women and girls as well as men and boys."

Peacebuilding and Participation:
Will promote the active participation of women such peacebuilding discussions through political and/or financial support. Will provide support, including lobbying, at the highest levels, to ensure that women’s voices are represented in wider peace processes, negotiations and State-building. Will also provide support at the local levels so as to build the capacity of women to participate effectively.

Security Sector:
Will ensure that all future relevant military doctrine is gender-sensitive. By November 2016, all United Kingdom troops deployed on overseas missions will receive training on women and peace and security and on preventing sexual violence.

Conflict Assessment:
Will ensure that by September 2016, all of its early warning and joint conflict analysis and assessment tools are fully gender-sensitive.

Sexual Violence in Conflict:
Will drive forward the preventing sexual violence in conflict initiative, by tackling impunity for sexual violence crimes, while ensuring widespread implementation of the international protocol on the documentation and investigation of sexual violence in conflict.

Protection:
Will encourage greater support for survivors, including children and men, and it will work with other Governments to deliver a more effective multilateral response. Will champion the road map to action to protect women and girls in emergencies and help secure positive outcomes for women and girls at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016.

National Action Plans:
Will continue to provide technical and other support to help other Governments develop, implement and measure the impact of their own action plans on resolution 1325 (2000) and also help Iraq and Afghanistan implement their action plans.

Combating Violent Extremism:
Will ensure that overseas work to counter violent extremism includes upstream activity targeted specifically at women. Women will be at the centre of the delivery of programming of overseas extremism work, both nationally and locally.

Financial Commitments:
Will contribute $1 million of start-up funding to the Global Acceleration Instrument for Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action to help address the global deficit in funding for the implementation of the resolution. Will provide additional funding of over $800,000, each year for two years, to support new research at the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics, bringing total Government funding from the United Kingdom for the Centre to over $3 million.
 

Arms Transfer Revenue in 2014: $1,644,000,000
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UN Women Government Total Contribution in 2014: $24,700,000

The UK did not specify dedicated resources for Women, Peace and Security work (other than in the multilateral stream of the CSSF), on the grounds that it would discourage attempts to mainstream gender into all activities. Although the commitment to mainstreaming gender equality is laudable – and should continue – GAPS believes it should be complemented by allocating dedicated resources for Women, Peace and Security.

GAPS welcomes the UK’s commitment to provide $1 million USD start-up funding to the GAI, announced at the UN High-level Review;

The UK Aid Strategy released in November 2015, is somewhat light-touch on WPS issues, given the commitment to increase emphasis on fragile states and the
prioritisation of the needs of women and girls;

In Syria, the UK is providing support to a security and justice programme, which aims to empower security and justice providers in partnership with local stakeholders. Addressing the security needs of women is a priority, and the programme is working to increase the numbers of women in the Free Syrian Police. 

The United Kingdom was ranked 28th.

Women from the United Kingdom are on duty in the following peacekeeping missions: 

MINUSMA (0),

MONUSCO (0),

UNFICYP (15),

UNMISS (2).

S/PV.7464: "That need for ever-greater transparency and accountability was also a prominent feature of yesterday’s peace operations review panel and, as was said then in relation to allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse, zero tolerance must mean zero tolerance. All troop-contributing countries must robustly follow up any such allegations involving their troops and report back to the United Nations."

Press statement SC/12010 on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and the Central African Republic was adopted by consensus. 

Key women's organisation's (Women's Resource Centre) efforts in regard to gender issues include the following:
- Number of conferences: 20+;
- Number of publications: 10 (project reports);
- Social services provided: Support member women NGOs to be more effective and sustainable through training, and we lobby the government on their behalf on a range of women’s issues.

Types of social support provided:
Education: Yes
Anti-violence: Yes
Women's empowerment: Yes
Gender-related training: Yes
Political participation: Yes
Anti-human trafficking: Yes
Women's health: Yes
Lobbying and policymaking: Yes
Fundraising: Yes

Number of officially registered NGO charities by year:
2015: 165,290.

The Women's Resource Centre is the leading national umbrella body for women's charities, with over 500 members. The centre provides training, information, resources and one-to-one support on a range of organisational development issues while also lobbying decision makers on behalf of the women’s not-for-profit sector for improved representation and funding.

The UK's Department for International Development has committed 85.10% (£502.5m) in aid to governmental and civil society organisations/projects. Out of this amount, 6.83% (£34.3m) is committed to women's organisations and institutions.

The UK hosted the following high-level events in 2015:
- UN Women UK and Government Equalities Office Conference;
- Women, Gender and Political Leadership: One Day Workshop;
- "Women of the Future" Summit;
- Women's Engagement Roadshow;
- Girl Summit anniversary: one year on;
- Women in policing;
- Chicks with bricks: Championing women in the construction industry.

The 2014 draft presents three principles and a four "outcomes" that match the main pillars of UNSCR 1325.

Principles:
Women’s participation is needed to make and build peace and prevent conflict breaking out;

Women and girls suffer specific forms of violence in conflict and emergencies;

In emergencies and conflict situations, women and girls have specific needs which need to be met.

Pillars:
Participation: Inclusion of women and girls' interests in decision-making processes related to the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts.

Protection: Women and girls' safety, physical and mental health and economic security are assured and their human rights upheld.

Prevention: Prevention of conflict and all forms of structural and physical violence against women and girls, including sexual and gender-based violence.

Relief and Recovery: Women’s and girls’ specific needs are met in conflict and post-conflict situations.

Action:
There are no activities in the draft 2014 draught NAP, but the UK commits itself to include them in the final draft by the end of 2014.

Timeframe:
UK's draft 2014 NAP is for the period 2014-2017, but does not provide specific timeframes for the outcomes it describes.

NAP Budget:
There is no estimated or allocated budget in the 2014 draft NAP. In fact, the UK NAP explains their decision to keep a budget out of the NAP in order to prevent a budget from confining them to implement women, peace and security to one area when they believe it should be integrated into every sector.

The UK NAP does mention its intent to allocate a budget for monitoring and evaluation.

Military Expenditure in 2014: $59,183,000,000
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There is no estimated or allocated budget in the 2014 draft NAP. In fact, the UK NAP explains their decision to keep a budget out of the NAP in order to prevent a budget from confining them to implement women, peace and security to one area when they believe it should be integrated into every sector.

The UK NAP does mention its intent to allocate a budget for monitoring and evaluation.

Lower:22.8%;
Upper:24.1%.

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.29.

Senior-ranked female chief inspectors: 21.4%;
Constable-ranked female officers: 30.2%.

Female: 817;
Male: 2,421.

Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.86.

Unemployment rate (percentage of female/male labour force):
Female: 70%;
Male: 8.2%.

Estimated earned income (PPP US$):
Female: 27,112;
Male: 40,000;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.68.

Legislators, senior officials, and managers (%):
Female: 35, Male: 65;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.55.

Professional and technical workers (%):
Female: 49, Male: 51;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 0.97.

The enrolment difference between males and females is provided below (The theoretical maximum value is 100%. Increasing trends are considered a reflection of improving coverage at the specified level of education):

Literacy rate (%):
Female: 99;
Male: 99;
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.

Enrolment in primary education:
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.

Enrolment in secondary education:
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.01.

Enrolment in tertiary education:
Ratio (0 = Inequality, 1 = Equality): 1.35.

While gender perspectives within the legal frameworks exist, they are not always fully effective, and discrimination (i.e.: gender, racial, and economic discrimination) can cause some groups to have disproportionate challenges equally accessing justice and utilising their rights.

Unlike many other nations, the United Kingdom has no single constitutional document, and is instead the sum of laws and principles that make up the "unwritten" constitution of the United Kingdom.

The Constitution guarantees equal treatment based on gender, while additionally including provisions for potential positive action based on gender.

Presence of gender perspective in the UK Constitution:
- European Communities Act (1972);
- Human Rights Act (1998).

Presence of gender perspective in the UK Legal framework:
- Equal Pay Act (1970);
- Sex Discrimination Act (1975);
- Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (2003);
- UK Equality Act 2006;
- UK Gender Equality Duty 2007;
- UK Equality Act 2007;
- The Maternity and Parental Leave etc. and the Paternity and Adoption Leave (Amendment) Regulations (2006);
- UK Equality Act 2010;
- UK Equality Strategy – Building a Fairer Britain (2006 –2016);
- UK Strategy “Think, Act, Report” (Gender Equality in the Workplace);
- Equal Pay Act (1970);
- Sex Discrimination Act (1975);
- Maternity Leave and Pay Regulations (1975);
- Paternity Leave and Pay Regulations (2003);
- Flexible Working Regulations (2003);
- Equality Act (2010);
- The UK Government has established a new Inter-Ministerial Group on Equalities to develop and oversee implementation of a strategy to deliver the Government's equality commitments (2011);
- Multi-agency statutory guidance on female genital mutilation (2016);
- Strategy to end violence against women and girls: 2016 to 2020.

While legal frameworks exist, they are not always fully effective, and discrimination (i.e.: gender, racial, and economic discrimination) can cause some groups to have disproportionate challenges equally accessing justice and utilising their rights.

The government of the United Kingdom fully complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. In 2014, the government issued its first modern slavery strategy, reviewed and made recommendations to improve its victim identification mechanism, and launched a pilot programme to strengthen protections for child trafficking victims. The government prosecuted and convicted an increased number of traffickers, appointed an anti-slavery commissioner to coordinate anti-trafficking efforts, and passed the Modern Slavery Act in March 2015. While authorities continued to identify a large number of potential trafficking victims, the victim identification and referral system failed to assist many victims of trafficking, particularly children. Government funding for specialised services remained limited. Some victims were detained and prosecuted for crimes committed as a result of being subjected to trafficking. 

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of sexual violence exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective. 

As part of the UK Government's Ending Gang and Youth Violence Programme, they provided £1.2 million over 3 years (from 2012 to 2015) for 13 young people’s advocates to support young people at risk of or suffering sexual violence and/or sexual exploitation, particularly by gangs.

The UK Government funded 87 independent sexual violence adviser posts (ISVAs) to work with victims of recent and historic serious sexual crimes to get the help they need.

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of human trafficking exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective. 

Since 1921, the British Royal Legion provided practical support to serving men and women, veterans (ex-service of all ages) and their families. 

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of sexual violence exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism is not fully effective. 

England:
1 national 24 hour free women’s helpline.

Wales:
1 national 24 hour free women’s helpline.

Northern Ireland:
1 national 24 hour free women’s helpline.

Scotland:
1 national 24 hour free women’s helpline.

While specialised services to support victims/survivors of human trafficking exist, the service quality, resource provision, geographic availability, adequate service availability based on national demand, and the functionality of national mechanism are not fully effective.

The Modern Slavery Act 2015 requires some commercial organisations to prepare annual statements outlining steps the organisation has taken to ensure human trafficking is not taking place in their supply chain. Northern Ireland’s anti-trafficking law criminalised the purchase of sexual services. The government did not report efforts to reduce the demand for forced labour. UK law allows authorities to prosecute citizens for sexual offences committed against children overseas, but the government did not report prosecuting or convicting any nationals engaged in child sex tourism abroad.The government did not provide anti-trafficking training or guidance for its diplomatic personnel. The government did not report providing anti-trafficking training to UK troops prior to deployment abroad as part of international peacekeeping missions in 2014.

While a wide range of services and resources are made available to refugees, asylum seekers, and IDPs, these services are usually provided by local service providers, therefore making these services and resources less available in some geographic locations.

Total population of refugees, stateless persons, IDPs, and asylum-seekers: 168,978.

The UK’s national laws are subject to the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Refugee Convention. Unlike the Human Rights Convention, the Refugee Convention has not been directly incorporated into UK domestic law, but its provisions influence the formulation of immigration rules, and practices contrary to the Convention are not permitted.

U.K. has proposed Immigration Bill 2015 to introduce new sanctions on undocumented immigrants and "incentivise" their departure. The bill criminalises immigrants without formal status by providing the possibility of jail time if they work illegally, and stiff penalties for those who employ the.

The report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, published last month, said that the cases of many women and girls seeking sanctuary in the UK were being handled in ways that were "completely inappropriate and fundamentally wrong". It said women had been expected to describe stories of domestic or sexual violence in front of their children or to male interpreters and faced a "culture of disbelief". It also said that women had been left destitute and vulnerable to violence during the application process.

Women detained in the Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre are routinely humiliated by male staff who monitor them while they are dressing, showering and using the toilet, or are naked in their rooms, according to Women for Refugee Women's report into the treatment of female asylum seekers reveals.

*** While the state meets all assessed criteria, the UK asylum system is strictly controlled and complex, which may impact rights and well-being of refugees and asylum seekers.