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2008-10-29
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  1. “Beyond the Peacebuilding Commission, we must prepare for next year by planning for a stronger system-wide architecture for leadership, expertise, funding, monitoring and accountability with regard to the agenda of women and peace and security. This must be an important part of the new gender entity.”

    2009-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6196 (2009) · source

  2. “For one, we can aim for at least a 50 per cent increase in the number of female uniformed peacekeeping personnel. A 50 per cent increase in a low number is not difficult. We should set a higher target for increasing the number of women mediators and special representatives of the Secretary-General. A third target could be earmarking at least 15 per cent of post-conflict funding for women's empowerment and recovery needs. The second priority is a leadership and accountability system for resolution 1325 (2000). UNIFEM. welcomes the suggestion in the new resolution that the United Nations peacebuilding architecture should review the issue of strengthening women's contributions to recovery and sustained peace.”

    2009-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6196 (2009) · source

  3. “I conclude with two priorities needed to make the tenth anniversary a time for strengthening accountability in the agenda of women and peace and security. First, we need consistent reporting mechanisms and indicators against which to report. The new resolution today calls for the development of indicators on resolution 1325 (2000) - a call that UNIFEM. is committed to answering. The difficulty of obtaining data must not be a reason for not trying to get it. It is time for us all to count the numbers of women at the peace table, the numbers of women raped in war, the numbers of internally displaced women who never recover their property, the numbers of women defenders of human rights killed for speaking out. All of this counts, and we are counting. We should also set targets to report against next year.”

    2009-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6196 (2009) · source

  4. “Securing women's land and property rights must be a major focus of recovery efforts and should be addressed in peace negotiations. UNIFEM. notes with appreciation the recent Security Council resolutions 1820 (2008), 1882 (2009), 1888 (2009) and, today, 1889 (2009). They represent building blocks of a potentially powerful system for equalizing women's participation in conflict resolution and peacebuilding, strengthening the protection of women during and after conflict and ensuring long- term prevention of conflict. Resolutions 1820 (2008) and 1888 (2009) address key elements of the protection pillar. The other two pillars require a response that is just as creative and determined. The tenth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000) gives us the opportunity to build this determined response together.”

    2009-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6196 (2009) · source

  5. “welcomes resolutions 1820 (2008) and 1888 (2009) and, as a founder member of the United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict, is committed to supporting their implementation. Women's safety must be made a priority in the reform of national security and justice sectors. The fourth priority is women's livelihood recovery. A central part of peacebuilding is economic recovery. That usually translates into job creation for young men, often at the expense of adequate investment in women's employment and livelihood needs. In particular, women need land rights and control of productive assets. Women's agricultural and market activities sustain food security, as well as large numbers of family members. Providing women with credit and protecting their property rights would have a significant multiplier effect on peacebuilding.”

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  6. “The risk of sexual violence after a conflict keeps women from resuming market activities and girls from going to school, and it discourages women from engaging in politics. The trauma, stigma and social ostracism endured by survivors of sexual violence lead to family and community breakdown, eroding the social fabric and creating long-term obstacles to peacebuilding. Above all, failure to prosecute crimes of sexual violence sends the message that perpetrators can act with impunity. This makes a mockery of efforts to reassert the rule of law. I also note with great concern that increased numbers of women defenders of human rights were threatened or murdered in the last year, particularly in Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UNIFEM.”

    2009-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6196 (2009) · source

  7. “has developed an analytical tool for determining women's specific needs and has worked with the United Nations Development Group Working Group on Crisis Prevention and Recovery and with the World Bank to develop guidance on gender as a cross- cutting issue in post-conflict needs assessments. This guidance will be tested in the current needs-assessment process in Pakistan. A priority for donors, the United Nations and the World Bank is to track funding targeted to women's needs. In post-conflict planning, women must participate in needs assessments, setting priorities and monitoring public expenditure. Civil society groups representing women's interests must be invited to donor conferences. The third priority for action is women's safety.”

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  8. “Increasing women's participation in formal and informal institutions involved in peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding is a major priority. We need to invest in strengthening the capacity of women's groups even before a conflict ends. UNIFEM does that by supporting women's peace coalitions across the lines of conflict. We are facilitating dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian women through the International Women's Commission. We are building regional women's peace advocacy in the Balkans and the Caucasus and are supporting women in Somalia, Uganda and Darfur, to help them engage in peace processes. The second priority is funding for women's empowerment in recovery and peacebuilding. Post- conflict planners should always investigate women's specific needs and allocate sufficient resources to meet them. UNIFEM.”

    2009-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6196 (2009) · source

  9. “There is no more important time to act on this insight than now, as we look forward to the tenth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000). I would like to highlight four priorities for action on early recovery and peacebuilding. The first is women's leadership in peacemaking. Last year, I shared with the Council research by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) showing that women average under 10 per cent of the members in official negotiating teams at peace talks. The striking absence of women at that stage means that they lack a voice in everything that follows. The institutions that implement peace deals may fail to address women's needs for justice, for removal of perpetrators of sexual violence from security forces or for properly designed and targeted public services.”

    2009-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6196 (2009) · source

  10. “Ms. Alberdi: I thank the Government of Viet Nam and Mr. Pham Gia Khiem, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the honour to address the Security Council. I congratulate Viet Nam on its initiative of introducing resolution 1889 (2009). I note with thanks the Secretary-General's report (S/2009/465) on the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), and I thank Ms. Mayanja for her dedication to this issue. The resolution adopted today asserts that women's leadership is an integral part of early recovery and peacebuilding. Failure to address women's needs in transitional governance, livelihood support, public services and judicial systems can slow recovery and undermine peace. In other words, women are a powerful positive force for long-term peacebuilding.”

    2009-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6196 (2009) · source

  11. “and the Initiative for Inclusive Security partnered with the Government of Norway to support the participation of women leaders from diverse civil society groups in the Sudan. In their own analysis, less than 2 per cent of the over $2 billion that has been pledged to date has targeted women's empowerment. Women's experiences of early recovery and peacebuilding demonstrate that there must be structured representation of women at all post-conflict donor conferences and that a mechanism to track funds dedicated to women's empowerment and recovery should be in place in all humanitarian and post-conflict development funds. We look forward to seeing these issues addressed in the forthcoming report of the Secretary-General on early recovery and in all United Nations peacebuilding and recovery efforts.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source

  12. “The cost is in delayed stabilization and reconciliation in countries where the rule of law cannot take root. Such costs and the delay of real peace can be avoided through decisive and early action to signal an end to impunity. With regard to peacebuilding, recovery and peacebuilding require gender-responsive institutional reforms to ensure that women benefit from the peace dividend as much as men. Justice and security institutions are the first on the list, but efforts are also needed to ensure that institutions for economic recovery develop women's productive capacities and that social service institutions respond to their needs. Currently, there are few means for women to identify and track funds allocated for their recovery needs. At the third meeting of the Sudan Consortium in May, UNIFEM.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source

  13. “New doctrine, guidelines, procedures, incentives and even force composition and equipment are required to ensure that practices on the ground are changed. UNIFEM, DPKO and the United Nations Action initiative are now field- testing an analytical inventory of best practices in protecting women and children - a task that will be finalized next spring for use in training uniformed personnel. If measures are not taken to prevent the widespread and systematic targeting of women, that violence can spill over into the post-conflict environment. We know that, in some contexts, attacks on women increase after conflict. If a country and the international community fail to prevent and punish violence against women, it pushes up the cost of peacebuilding.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source

  14. “UNIFEM's experience has demonstrated the effectiveness of special quotas to promote women in leadership roles, notably in post-conflict Rwanda, where, since September, women comprise 56 per cent of the National Assembly members. With regard to peacekeeping, women's needs for protection during and after conflict are different from those of men and often require a specific protection response. This year, UNIFEM. collaborated with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and United Nations Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict, supported by Canada and the United Kingdom, to identify such a response. Former force commanders and police commissioners from peacekeeping missions were asked to identify tactics to enable them to detect imminent attacks on women and children and to prevent those attacks.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source

  15. “However, women's participation in peace processes must not be left to informal initiatives on the margins. Peace talks must accommodate a structured representation of women's concerns and interests. International institutions supporting conflict mediation must have gender experts and must propose concrete methods to bring women to peace talks. During the past year, UNIFEM. supplied a gender adviser to the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General in Uganda to support gender sensitivity in the work of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs there. There should be gender advisers in all mediation efforts. Today's political leaders are often peace mediators of the future, so the recruitment of women mediators depends on the numbers of women in public office.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source

  16. “That does not tell the whole story, of course, since women's peace networks are constantly engaging in peace processes on a more informal basis. An example is the International Women's Commission for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace, which UNIFEM. has supported since 2005. The Commission has developed a shared vision of a resolution to the conflict, but has no means by which to interject that vision into the official process. That illustrates why more rigorous implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) is so important. We are pleased that International Women's Commission members are here today and that, on Friday 31 October, they will participate in an informal briefing of Council members hosted by the Government of Belgium.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source

  17. “Business as usual will not do. The rest of my remarks address points where practices in peacemaking, peacebuilding and building sustainable peace must change. Regarding peacemaking, the impact of the public physical presence of women in peace processes should not be underestimated. UNIFEM. recently reviewed official figures on women's participation in peace talks. While data are hard to obtain, as negotiations are sensitive, we found that women averaged 7 per cent of negotiators in the five comprehensive agreements for which data was available. They averaged 24 per cent of official observers in three recent peace processes for which data was available. They barely figure at all among appointed envoys, mediators and facilitators.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source

  18. “If sexual violence is a security problem, it requires a security response from the earliest moments of peacekeeping. We trust that the Secretary-General's report (S/2008/622) on resolution 1820 (2008) will provide practical steps to strengthening women's security. Other security institutions are making the connection between women's security and peacebuilding. The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) was pleased to support a meeting of the French presidency of the European Union (EU) this month to improve the linkage between resolutions 1325 (2000) and 1820 (2008) and their implementation in EU security, police and justice missions. Women's participation in conflict prevention, community reconciliation and respect for the rule of law cannot be left to a post-conflict phase. It must be addressed from the start.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source

  19. “Unless women's security is a primary objective of peacekeepers and systematic abuses of women's rights are made a primary focus of judicial responses, the seeds are sown for an incomplete and possibly unsustainable peace. That is because if abuses of women's rights are tolerated through de facto impunity for perpetrators, efforts to restore the rule of law lose their credibility. It is important to note that the Security Council has clearly acknowledged that point in resolution 1820 (2008). In recognizing sexual violence as a tactic of war that is used to crush opposition, subordinate communities and silence women, that resolution expands on resolution 1325 (2000). It acknowledges that there is no security without women's security.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source

  20. “Ms. Alberdi: I thank you, Sir, for the honour of this invitation to address the Security Council on the issue of women's participation in maintaining and promoting peace and security. This thematic focus permits us to stress that women's engagement in peacebuilding does not start when the fighting stops. Gender issues must be addressed in conflict prevention and mediation, in the deployment of peacekeepers, in integrated missions, in stabilization and in post-conflict recovery. That is to say, for women to participate effectively in promoting peace and security, gender-responsive peacebuilding must begin from the first moments of conflict resolution. That is particularly important in conflicts in which sexual Violence is used as a tactic of war.”

    2008-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6005 (2008) · source