UN Security Council Resolution 2467 on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
UNSCR 2467 pushed a genuinely survivor-centred approach to conflict-related sexual violence — but became the WPS agenda's first non-unanimous resolution after the US threatened a veto unless sexual and reproductive health language was removed.
By 2019, the CRSV resolution sequence had established strong normative and institutional frameworks, but survivors remained marginal to the response architecture. Programming was often designed by international actors without meaningful survivor participation, and the specific needs of vulnerable groups — children born of rape, LGBTIQ+ survivors, persons with disabilities — were neglected.
UNSCR 2467 was intended to recentre survivors in CRSV response. However, its journey through the Council became emblematic of the political contestation surrounding the WPS agenda, as disagreements over sexual and reproductive health language fractured the consensus that had previously characterised WPS resolutions.
UNSCR 2467 introduced the concept of survivor-centredness as a guiding principle for CRSV response — a significant normative advance that recognised survivors as rights-holders rather than passive beneficiaries. It also explicitly requested reporting on children born of CRSV, a population that had been largely invisible in policy frameworks.
However, the resolution is most remembered for the political battles that surrounded it. The United States threatened to veto the resolution unless references to sexual and reproductive health were removed, breaking the unanimous consensus that had characterised WPS resolutions since 2000.