Goma, 2 February 2017 – The Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General for the Great Lakes region organized the Global Open Days on Women, Peace and Security in Goma, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), from 31 January to 2 February 2017, with support from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and UN Women. The event brought together 30 women leaders from five countries in the Great Lakes region (Burundi, the DRC, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda), Ministers and their representatives in charge of gender from the concerned countries as well as high level representatives of the United Nations, the African Union (AU) and the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).