UN envoy Ellen Margrethe Løj has urged the Liberian women peace leaders to involve young women and men in the process to promote sustainable peace and security in Liberia and to enhance the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325. Addressing the Global Open Day event at the University of Liberia, she called for the encouragement of young women and men, who are the ones to carry the torch forward, and stressed that women’s peace and security is a precondition for sustainable development.
Credit: Staton Winter/UNMIL / Date: 10 June 2010