“Unless women are in the forefront of this culture of peace, long-term solutions will elude us,” says Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, the prime mover of the 1999 General Assembly resolution that adopted the U.N. Declaration and Programme of Action on the Culture of Peace. Credit: UN Photo/Ky Chung

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"Unless women are in the forefront of this culture of peace, long-term solutions will elude us," says Ambassador Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, the prime mover of the 1999 General Assembly resolution that adopted the U.N. Declaration and Programme of Action on the Culture of Peace. Credit: UN Photo/Ky Chung