Submission to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) for the February 2023 Half-day general discussion held to prepare for the elaboration of a General Recommendation on the equal and inclusive representation of women in decision-making systems. In this submission, WILPF emphasises that the mere formal and quantitative participation of women in patriarchal, capitalist, racist and militarised systems does not bring about structural change. To fully secure women’s right to participation, it is necessary to dismantle structures that cause harm, and ensure that those who are affected by such harm take the lead in creating new systems through approaches based on feminist political economy analysis, human rights, demilitarisation, decolonisation.