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Ayang

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  1. “Therefore, I urge the Security Council to demand that the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission in South Sudan, and any monitoring mechanisms established in the region for other conflicts, ensure that women's representation and participation are integrated throughout the monitoring and implementation of peace agreements, in coordination with United Nations peacekeeping mandates.”

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  2. “The scale of sexual violence in my country has destroyed the social fabric of communities and threatens to dismantle the already fragile peace. Therefore, I urge the Security Council to take action. First, the Council must insist on accountability for atrocities committed by all warring parties, armed groups, security forces and peacekeepers. Accountability for sexual violence must be prioritized, and efforts must be made to ensure that transitional justice mechanisms, including community-led programmes, such as truth-telling and reconciliation, are gender sensitive and responsive to the unique needs of women. Secondly, little attention or support has gone towards ensuring women's participation in what can be the most critical aspect of the peace process, that is, implementation.”

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  3. “I also urge the Security Council to increase support for the inclusion of women in national security forces and police, including in all United Nations peacekeeping missions. Furthermore, the Council should require United Nations consultations with women-led civil- society organizations to advance gender-specific and community priorities in peace and security processes. In addition to the promotion of gender equality and women's empowerment, I want the Council to take away two things from my remarks today. First, we can continue to discuss strategies of conflict prevention and resolution, but they will be ineffective unless immediate attention goes to addressing and preventing the systematic, deliberate and widespread sexual violence in South Sudan and on the continent.”

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  4. “In order to support these efforts, I urge the Security Council to do the following. First, it must invest in programmes aimed at increasing women's inclusion in conflict-prevention and resolution strategies. These programmes should be developed in consultation with diverse local populations and designed to address the underlying root causes of conflict and promote women-led early- warning mechanisms. I also urge the Security Council to promote women's meaningful inclusion in elections, so that their needs and concerns are better reflected in peace and security policymaking. Support should be provided for constitutional reforms that require a quota in parliaments as one mechanism to get more women into decision-making roles.”

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  5. “As the Security Council and the international community's attention turns to the 31 March deadline for the parties to report on how they are implementing the August 2015 peace agreement, accounting for the role of women in monitoring and implementing this accord is crucial. Women must serve as mediators, community liaisons and monitors throughout this process if the accord is to ultimately be successful, and I urge the Security Council to do more to ensure that this happens. Evidence of women's ability to prevent and resolve conflict spans the African continent. With limited resources, and in spite of threats from their own communities and sometimes families, women organize peace marches, advocate for enhanced peace and security policies, and lead reconciliation efforts across conflict lines.”

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  6. “Women's advocacy groups also began to form to ensure that women's voices and experiences were considered by the largely male negotiators determining the future of South Sudan. I am a member of one such group called the Task Force on the Engagement of Women, supported by the Institute for Inclusive Security. We advocated to the warring parties and key international stakeholders the signing of a cessation of hostilities agreement and the promotion of inclusive peace talks that address the underlying root causes of the conflict. These women were some of the only people whom both parties trusted, allowing them to send messages back and forth on their behalf.”

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  7. “As the most recent report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documenting the crimes committed in South Sudan noted, "Women are in a state of permanent insecurity, and are compelled to take great risks" (A/HRC/31/49, para. 36). To help prevent and address these horrendous acts, the South Sudan Women's Empowerment Network, of which I am the Executive Director, created community networks that worked on preventing sexual and gender-based violence through awareness activities, sensitization training and advocacy. These networks were led and run by men. Men must be meaningfully engaged in these programmes to ensure that the violence subsides and the stigma is diminished.”

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  8. “We mobilized across the country, and in Nairobi, Kampala and Addis Ababa, pushing that agenda. Women's efforts were deployed at all levels, from grass-roots to international. Inside South Sudan, women were crossing tribal lines to de-escalate tensions and prevent further conflict. In a protection-of-civilians site that was segregated between Dinka and Nuer tribes, a Dinka woman joined with a Nuer to start a group in which women from both tribes would meet and discuss how to stop the violence. While the men wanted to fight over their tribal differences, women bridged the divide and reduced tensions within the community. The scale of sexual violence in our country has been shocking.”

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  9. “I have seen first-hand the power that women have in preventing and resolving conflict in my own country. On 15 December 2013, the hopes and dreams of the South Sudanese people of living in a peaceful and independent country vanished. I remember vividly the night that conflict broke out: the sound of heavy weapons and artillery enveloped us as bullet holes riddled my home. War had returned to my country. But I was one ofthe lucky ones, able to put my family of six into a car and drive to the Ugandan border; but I knew I had to return. Thankfully, I was not alone: women from widely differing ideological and political perspectives joined together to reject the conflict and the violence and created a platform to suggest peaceful solutions to the conflict.”

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  10. “Ms. Ayang: I wish to thank you, Madam President, for the invitation to provide a voice for the thousands of women across Africa who are risking their lives to prevent conflict and bring peace to their communities and countries. Although there have been repeated commitments made in this Chamber, and the Security Council, the African Union and the international community have evidence that has demonstrated time and again that the broad, meaningful and effective inclusion of women increases the durability of peace, we continue to be excluded from these efforts. The world, and Africa in particular, needs to move beyond the stereotypical images of women as victims in conflict and instead take into account their complex experiences as fighters, peacebuilders, protectors and community leaders.”

    2016-03-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7658 (2016) · source