Trump undercuts women, peace and security agenda
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Subject
Outlook for the women, peace and security agenda.
Significance
In 2018, President Donald Trump signed the US Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Act. That legislation codified the National Action Plan signed by President Barack Obama in 2011 for implementing the WPS agenda passed as UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in 2000, and supplemented since by additional related resolutions and policies.
Impacts
- The WPS agenda is only now slowly filtering into mainstream academic considerations of international relations.
- US healthcare funding cuts will affect the lives of millions of aid-dependent women.
- Women’s issues in US politics are likely to be highlighted most by the House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
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