Disagree 9. The UK deliberately made advancing the position of women and girls, in line with the WPS agenda, a core element of our February UN Security Council Presidency. We specifically and safely invited women to brief the Security Council’s meetings on Syria, Sudan and the Middle East Peace Process, as one of the most credible, meaningful and impactful ways to anchor WPS in UN Security Council discussions and action. We led a WPS Shared Commitments joint statement on the situation for women in Syria, delivered at a press stakeout in advance of the meeting, in which eight countries participated. Recognising the need to elevate women’s voices in understanding conflict and its impacts, we convened member states to interact with the women we invited to brief the Council and spotlighted their messages in UK Government communications products. This approach, to bring women’s voices and perspectives into country-specific discussions, has proven more meaningful and impactful than holding generic discussions on WPS, which can, given differing views of Council members, have little impact and let rhetoric take the place of implementation. 10. Furthermore, the Foreign Secretary specifically and personally used the UK’s Security Council Presidency to raise the alarm on the rights and protection of women and girls in Sudan, delivering a powerful intervention in the Council and joining the Sudanese woman briefer in a joint press stakeout. These interventions amplified the testimonies of Sudanese women the Foreign Secretary had met at a refugee camp in Chad. 11. The Foreign Secretary also convened at the UN a high-profile in-studio discussion in collaboration with UN Partnerships, “Hearing Her Voice”. This brought together Sudanese feminist activist Hala Al-Karib, advocate for children born from rape in war Lejla D., former war correspondent Jane Ferguson, and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten, for a powerful, honest and action-oriented discussion.