On Wednesday 17th April, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) and All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights Group (APPG-HRG) co-sponsored a roundtable discussion with ABColombia.

On Tuesday 26th March, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) and GAPS hosted the Oral Report to Parliament, “Assessing UK Government Progress on Women, Peace and Security in 2023”. The event, co-chaired by Baroness Fiona Hodgson and Julie Marson MP, provided an opportunity for dialogue between Government Officials, Parliamentarians and Civil Society on the implementation of the National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, one year on.

On Wednesday 20th March, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) hosted a report launch event with GAPS, Concordis International and Sasakawa Peace Foundation titled “How to engage men in advancing the women, peace and security agenda?”. The event, chaired by Baroness Hodgson, co-chair of the APPG -WPS, focused on the gender dynamics after conflict in Ache, Maluku and Bangsamoro Mindanao. This event was held to launch the joint report, Reconstructing Masculinities, which can be found here.

On Wednesday, February 7th, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security organised an event in collaboration with the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity titled “Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) in Ukraine: Lessons from Bosnia.”

London: Women’s Regional Network (WRN), a network of women civil society leaders working together to advance women's rights and regional peace in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, launched its reports developed on the feminist participatory research, Community Conversations titled ‘Afghan Women’s Struggle under the Taliban’ at the House of Lords, UK Parliament on 7 December 2023.

On Tuesday 31st October, the fifth Roundtable on WPS with leads from Embassies and High Commissions was held at the Canadian High Commission. Although organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) in collaboration with the Canadian…

On Tuesday July 11th 2023, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) organised a collaborative event with Oxfam GB titled “Women’s Leadership in Yemen’s Peace Process.”

On Monday 10th July, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) hosted an event titled “The future of Women, Peace and Security in Afghanistan- supporting women’s participation in the socio-political and humanitarian processes” in partnership with the Afghan Women’s Coalition for Change (AWCC) and the Women for Peace and Participation (WPP).

On Wednesday 17th May 2023, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) hosted an event in collaboration with DROPS, SOAS University of London, ODI & SOAS ICOP titled “BISHNAW Report Launch: Bringing Afghan Women’s Voices to the Foreground in Peace and Conflict.”

On Tuesday 02 May 2023, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) held its annual general meeting. 

On Tuesday 25th April 2023, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) hosted the UK Government’s 2022 oral Report to Parliament on the UK National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security  with Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS). The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) presented their progress on the final year of the UK’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security (UK NAP) 2018-2022. 

On Wednesday 22nd March 2023, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) hosted an event titled “Women in Peace Processes”.

On Tuesday 7th of February, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) hosted an event titled “Women in Diplomacy”. 

On Tuesday 20 December, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) co-hosted a breakfast conversation with the Rt. Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, UK Minister for Development. This was organised by the APPG for the UN Global Goals on Sustainable Development and was also co-hosted by APPG on Action on Conflict and Global Britain; APPG on Extreme Poverty; APPG for Global Education; APPG for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene; APPG on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases and APPG Tuberculosis.

On Wednesday 23rd November, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) hosted an event in collaboration with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Afghanistan and the British and Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG) titled “The situation facing women and girls in Afghanistan a year on from the Taliban takeover”.

On Thursday 27th October, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) hosted the fourth Roundtable on WPS with leads from Embassies and High Commissions. The event, organised in collaboration with the Canadian High Commission and held under Chatham House rules

On Monday 10th October, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women, Peace and Security (APPG-WPS) hosted an event in collaboration with Gender Action for Peace and Security and the University of Sheffield to launch a report titled Listening to Women’s Rights Organisations: The UK’s Gender and Women Peace and Security Practice in Iraq.

The event brought together experts, practitioners and parliamentarians to discuss how the UK Government can ensure its Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) is successful and survivor-centred. It was chaired by Baroness Fiona Hodgson, Chair of the APPG for Women, Peace and Security.