Ensuring and maintaining peace is strategic to the security and development of Africa, and women in West Africa and indeed the whole of Africa have demonstrated through practical actions their determination to ensure that this is a reality.
Within the framework of Open Day on the United Nations Security Council Resolution
(UNSCR) 1325 implementation in West Africa, UNOWA held in Dakar, on 13 September 2012,
a videoconference with West African Women leaders to exchange information and discuss
trends, constraints and perspectives to better involve women in peace and security issues.
The 2012 Open day was organized in partnership with UN missions in West Africa (UNOCI,