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Bahous

lines on the record: 412
first: 2016-10-19
most recent: 2023-11-22
sittings or episodes: 42
sources: un-security-council

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“I have also seen Ukrainian women refugees in Moldova working in the shelters and taking on roles to support one another. Women’s organizations within Ukraine have not stopped working, adjusting their work to meet the immediate needs of the populations they serve. They do so at great risk to their own lives. They were there before the war, they remain there during the war, and they will be there to pick up the pieces afterwards. I salute their courage and steadfastness. They need our continued support. The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund is already supporting several women’s organizations on the front lines in Ukraine and Moldova to aid displaced women and girls, including shelter, medication, food and psychosocial support, including to women and girls living with disabilities or HIV/AIDS.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“I equally call on all countries to support Moldova and others with increased resources for police forces so that they can ensure support for victims of gender-based violence and trafficking. A gender-sensitive and survivor-centred response must be at the heart of all humanitarian action. Through all the aforementioned horrors, women continue to serve and lead their communities and support internally displaced persons in Ukraine. Women make up 80 per cent of all health-care and social workers in Ukraine, and many of them chose not to evacuate. We have seen the women members of Parliament continue to fulfil their duties in the Verkhovna Rada, while bombs were falling around Kyiv. We have also seen the Deputy Prime Minister engaged in the humanitarian response.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“The Security Council will hear more on that from the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict on Wednesday. A war of this magnitude affects the world far beyond the borders of Ukraine. I also heard from the Government in Moldova and the border police about the need for increased support to monitor border crossings. The risk of human trafficking is increasing as the situation becomes more desperate. Young women and unaccompanied teenagers are at particular risk. I call on all countries to increase their efforts to combat trafficking and commend all the host countries for their collaboration on that and on prevention.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“We must continue our support, but, most importantly, we must continue all efforts to advance peace. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent attack against the Kramatorsk train station, which also killed civilians and United Nations civil society partners. The people killed at the train station are like the people whom I met at the border: women, children and the elderly looking for safety. Humanitarians are not a target. Civilians are not a target. We are increasingly hearing of rape and sexual violence. Those allegations must be independently investigated to ensure justice and accountability. The combination of mass displacement, the large presence of conscripts and mercenaries and the brutality displayed against Ukrainian civilians has raised all red flags.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“They were able to work with the Government to ensure that basic needs were met, and services provided. They are doing that without specific humanitarian- response training. At their request, UN-Women is supporting them in that adjustment, and UN-Women is acting on its coordination mandate, working with the refugee response team and civil society partners to ensure that the gendered nature of the crisis is addressed with a gender-sensitive response. That includes providing services with a focus on protection and addressing the increased trauma and psychosocial support needs that are so starkly in evidence. The trauma associated with young women having left their homes at night and families that have been separated and are living in constant fear of the future is destroying a generation.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“In an act of determination and resilience, she and her colleagues are continuing their schooling online, also with the help of their teachers. Tatyana is determined not to let the war disrupt her dream. Vitaliy, a young boy of maybe seven, told me about his sleepless nights, as he worried about his father, who was left behind to patrol the streets in their hometown. I witnessed buses full of women and children arrive at the Palanca border crossing, tired, weary and fearful. There, they were met with dignity and compassion by volunteers from civil society organizations, many of whom we, as UN-Women, support. I heard from women’s civil society organizations how they adapted their work overnight, going from grappling with two emergencies — COVID-19 and the energy crisis — to a third.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Despite the fact that the country continues to reel from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and while its people remain determined to achieve their national development priorities, they have opened their borders and homes to those fleeing the shelling and guns in Ukraine, the majority of whom are women, children and the elderly. An estimated 95,000 Ukrainians are being hosted in country to date, with thousands upon thousands more in transit since the war started. At the different temporary shelters that I visited in Moldova, exhausted, anxious, fearful and tearful mothers shared their worries about the future of their country, daughters, sons and families. A young girl from Odesa, Tatyana, told me that her city is beautiful. She has a dream to become a doctor and saw her studies abruptly interrupted by the necessity to flee.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“Ms. Bahous: I thank Ambassadors Thomas- Greenfield and Hoxha, for calling for this meeting, and I thank Ambassador Woodward for convening this briefing during the United Kingdom presidency of the Security Council. At the outset, I want to express my solidarity with all Ukrainians women, girls, men and boys — those who have left for safety and those who have stayed. My heart goes out to all the families that have lost a loved one. This war must stop, and it must stop now. I returned last night to New York from Moldova, where the consequences of the senseless war in Ukraine were stark. Moldova has rightfully been described as a small country with a big heart.”
2022-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9013 (2022) · source
“What we need now is the political will to pursue it. I look forward to working with the Council on the issue and to deepening our investments in women and peace and security.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“That includes strengthening social protection mechanisms, promoting women- owned social enterprises and businesses, addressing discriminatory legislation and practices that hinder women’s economic empowerment and ensuring that gender equality is a priority in national, regional and global peace and development strategies. The Compact has 158 signatories thus far, including several members of the Council. However, we need to do more to reach out to multilateral development banks and the private sector. There are many other ways in which private sector actors can be champions of change. If engaged meaningfully, they can play a positive role in creating sustainable peace in support of the women and peace and security agenda. We have the blueprint and the business case to support women’s economic inclusion.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“I am pleased that we have Ms. Coulibaly joining us today from Mali to share her invaluable perspective as a partner of the Fund. We put considerable effort into bringing the private sector along, both as donors and as pro-bono partners, but there is much more that can be done to multiply fivefold the financing for women’s organizations in crisis settings by 2030, as requested by the Secretary-General. Secondly, as part of Generation Equality Forum, we now have a Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action, a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to move the needle on the issue over the next five years.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“The Security Council could use such resolutions to call for women’s meaningful engagement and inclusion not only in peacebuilding, conflict prevention and recovery, but also in decision-making, as well as in in the prioritization of women-led businesses, women in front-line service delivery and support for the care economy in all reconstruction and recovery initiatives. I welcome today’s focus on the role of the private sector and private-public partnerships as an underexplored area for innovation. I would like to share two examples of global initiatives in the area of women and peace and security, where we invite the private sector to play a larger role in women’s peacebuilding work. One example is the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund, which has funded more than 500 women’s organizations in more than 26 countries since 2016.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“That is the case not just in extractive industries and large agribusinesses, but increasingly on telecommunications platforms. They have a major role to play in facilitating inclusion and preventing hate speech and targeted reprisals. The solution, therefore, is clear. We need more engagement, greater accountability and shared responsibility. The Security Council can say much more about women’s economic inclusion. Some of the resolutions that cover women and peace and security most comprehensively, such as resolutions on the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have several paragraphs on economic security, development issues and the illegal exploitation of natural resources that tend to be gender-blind.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“In Haiti, where more than 45 per cent of households are headed by women, the pandemic led to a 24 per cent decrease in women’s employment. Yet, as in many other countries, the strategies to address the economic fallout of the crisis remain largely gender-blind. In Ukraine, humanitarian needs are multiplying and spreading by the hour. Among the nearly 1.5 million people who have fled, the majority are women and children. Here, too, we risk the backsliding of women´s rights and women´s access to employment and livelihoods. Many of the women activists who have been invited to speak before the Security Council have told us that the private sector and private actors, including multinational corporations, are often part of the problem when they could be part of the solution.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“That script plays out across all conflict zones and situations on the agenda of the Security Council. In Afghanistan, we are rightly concerned about humanitarian aid and frozen assets, but the consequences of a new gender apartheid include women’s employment plummeting sharply since the Taliban takeover. In Yemen, enduring the world’s largest humanitarian emergency, closing gender gaps in women’s participation in the workforce would have increased Yemen’s gross domestic product by 27 per cent. More than half of the World Bank’s fragile and conflict-affected countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, where economic losses due to gender inequality stand at $2.5 trillion. Not many conflict-affected countries have data on women’s land ownership, but those with that data show that it remains very low. In Mali, it is just 3 per cent.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“One of the least discussed elements of our agenda is women’s inclusion in economic recovery as an essential element in our pursuit of peace. Study after study shows that investing in women’s economic empowerment yields enormous dividends for both peace and prosperity, and that countries in which women are economically marginalized and shut out of the workforce are much more likely to go to war. We know that women are more likely to spend their income on family needs and make a larger contribution to recovery, and yet, large-scale reconstruction and investments after conflict are dominated by men and overwhelmingly benefit men, while exclusion, discrimination and antiquated gender norms keep women away from employment, land, property, inheritance, credit and technology.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“This very Council has spent the past 10 days in multiple emergency meetings on the situation in Ukraine. As the Secretary-General has said, people demand peace. We must give peace a chance. We also lost gains that took us decades to achieve, especially on gender equality. We have fewer than nine years to go until 2030, yet we are not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The coronavirus disease has further set us back across those Goals, including on gender equality, poverty and climate. International Women’s Day is a day for reflection, renewed hope and increased action. Today, we have an opportunity to do things differently. It is clear to me, now more than ever before, that we need another model of leadership on this issue.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“Ms. Bahous: I thank Her Excellency Ms. Mariam Almheiri, United Arab Emirates Minister of Climate Change and Environment, and Her Excellency Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh for their leadership and for prioritizing a discussion on women, peace and security on the Council’s agenda on International Women’s Day. I wish everyone a happy International Women’s Day. When the pandemic emptied the Chamber almost two years ago, the Secretary-General called for a global ceasefire. There was hope that, in the face of a common enemy, there would be renewed international cooperation and that, instead of spending money on weapons, we would invest in science, health and social protection for all, especially for women and girls. Instead, we got more military spending, military coups, seizures of power by force and a multilateral system against the ropes.”
2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source
“If we want to see a tangible difference in the lives of women and girls and a paradigm shift in the way we confront peace and security issues, we need Governments to step up — and not just the Governments in countries that are affected by conflict, but also their regional neighbours, their trading partners, their military allies, their donors, and most of all, the Security Council. For too long we have seen vast military spending that is in bitter contrast to the limited investment in other areas. For too long we have seen the violence targeting women and their rights and, at the same time, the extreme marginalization and exclusion of those women from the very places where they can drive change. Surely the time has come to say “enough”. Surely there is hope. Today’s report recommends solutions.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“Part of that movement to advance gender equality and all that it can bring was the new Compact on Women, Peace and Security and Humanitarian Action, whose areas of work will be directly supportive of the Secretary-General’s goals. I invite participants today to join the 153 signatories and make concrete commitments to advance our common cause over the next five years. I hope that they feel — and share — my sense of urgency to make progress in the women and peace and security agenda.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“We rely on Governments to open doors for these women and facilitate and expedite the approval of applications for asylum, temporary relocation or protected status owing to gender-based persecution. We rely on the Security Council to support the work of women’s civil society organizations, condemn, investigate and punish attacks against them and review the national laws that may be constraining their civic space and curtailing their activities and funding. When we act together, we can accomplish transformative change. From Mexico City to Paris this year, the resounding expression of political and financial support for gender equality galvanized by the Generation Equality Forum could not have come at a better time.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“We are falling short of providing protection to these women, even those who risk their lives to collaborate with the United Nations. This ranges from properly assessing the risks and monitoring threats to planning for contingencies, making rapid and flexible funding available for individual cases, ensuring that women are part of delivering and planning humanitarian aid and taking all necessary measures to enhance digital and physical security. The Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund, which has already supported more than 400 women’s organizations since 2016, is working on opening a special window for such cases. This could help to pay for evacuation and resettlement costs, counselling and mental health-care services and necessary equipment, from computer software to security cameras. In this context, again, we need Governments to step up.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“In Colombia, 10 of the 16 members of the Special Forum on Gender, which monitors the implementation of the gender provisions of the peace agreement, reported threats made directly against them, as did women who participated in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in 2020. The rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban was preceded by a wave of killings of women civil society activists and journalists and the targeting of academics, vaccinators and women judges. This is happening in other countries too. In 2020, the United Nations verified 35 cases of killings of women human rights defenders, journalists and trade unionists, but this number is a significant undercount and comes from only seven conflict-affected countries with data.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“Other recommended approaches include inclusive selection measures, independent delegations of women representatives, political commitment by Member States for processes they support, and investment in better data collection, gender analysis and monitoring of results across all peace efforts. It is clear that women’s participation and their protection are linked. We simply cannot have one without the other. We cannot expect women to build peace if their lives are constantly under threat. The report provides examples of the violence committed against women and girls in conflict settings and refugee camps, much of it conducted with almost complete impunity. This includes instances of targeted violence against women in public life who are fighting for peace or for their rights.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“My second request builds on the Secretary-General’s call for partnerships, protection and participation, which is also a central part of our common agenda and a renewed social contract. Women’s equal and meaningful participation in peace and security is the central goal of resolution 1325 (2000), yet we continue to fall short. Quotas and other special measures are our best mechanisms to accelerate positive change to increase representation. The report shows us that women’s parliamentary representation in conflict and post- conflict countries doubles where there are legislated quotas. The United Nations is committed to promoting the use of quotas, not just in politics but in peace processes and other relevant contexts.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“We cannot expect women’s organizations to perform miracles if they do not have enough funds to keep their lights on and if their leaders are under constant threat. There is an urgent need to accelerate both programmatic and institutional financing. One pathway to shift the spending paradigms is to increase the number of women in elected and appointed posts. I ask the international community to do more to support the participation of women in decision-making on defence and security sector expenditures, to expand the use of gender-budgeting tools and programming to influence military spending levels, and to strengthen citizens’ oversight of military budgeting through enhanced transparency and accountability.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“The opposite is true in most stable countries. When State support is absent or inadequate, women rely even more on their local organizations. Yet the share of bilateral aid supporting feminist, women-led and women’s rights organizations and movements in fragile or conflict-affected countries is a mere 0.4 per cent. Furthermore, there has been a striking increase in the fragility of funding for these organizations. More than 80 per cent of local civil society organizations working on the front lines of crises reported this year that their organization’s existence was at risk due to lack of funding, up from the 30 per cent reported last year. There is no better predictor of our ability to advance gender equality or reduce violence against women the strength of the women’s movement.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“In stark contrast, in humanitarian appeals, sectors that addressed gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health services are funded at only 33 per cent and 43 per cent, respectively, compared to an average funding of 61 per cent for the overall appeal. None of the ceasefire agreements reached between 2018 and 2020 included the prohibition of sexual violence, and the percentage of peace agreements with gender provisions stands at 28.6 per cent. At this critical juncture, we have to review prioritization. Thriving nations are equal nations, and equal nations are more peaceful nations. But people cannot thrive without investment in their basic needs, such as health care and social protection. Conflict- affected countries spend two to three times more on defence than they do on health care.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“It was a key objective of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995; it was reaffirmed recently during the Generation Equality Forum; and it is essential to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 16. The evidence clearly shows that high levels of military spending in post-conflict settings increase the risk of renewed conflict. It also shows that investing in gender equality has a high return in peace dividends. Yet we continue to overspend in the former and underinvest in the latter. Last year, global military expenditure increased by 2.6 per cent, even in the face of the contraction in the global economy of 3.3 per cent and the competing demands of the coronavirus disease. That is nearly $2 trillion spent in the same year when all economies, whether in peace or conflict, struggled to meet people’s basic needs.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“As the Secretary-General has said, the United Nations intends to push back, double down, and move forward. His report before the Council today is rich in evidence. Let me focus on two of the most salient lessons from those findings. First, we need to significantly increase funding for the women and peace and security agenda and, conversely, curb military spending. Secondly, we need to do more to support women’s meaningful participation in peace and security processes. On the need to curb military spending, if we want to see a paradigm shift in the way we confront peace and security issues, we need to take a hard look at the levels and trajectory of global military spending. Curbing military spending has been a chief strategic objective of the women’s movement for peace.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“Ms. Bahous: It is an honour to address the Security Council to present the Secretary-General’s report on women and peace and security (S/2021/827). In these dark days of multiple crises, this topic is more important than ever. As I start my tenure as Executive Director of UN-Women, I look forward to working with the Council to strengthen and accelerate the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda. It has been 21 years since the Security Council adopted resolution 1325 (2000) in this very Chamber. Yet we still meet to discuss the limited progress made. The doors that resolution 1325 (2000) was meant to burst open have let in only a glimmer of light. But as women, as peacebuilders, as development practitioners, we take that glimmer and we fight.”
2021-10-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8886 (2021) · source
“Let us work together through the Council and the United Nations, with our Palestinian brethren, our friends and our partners, to seriously address the challenges before us in order to achieve a comprehensive, just and lasting peace.”
2020-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8706 (2020) · source
“That resolution sought to involve young people as fundamental partners in peacebuilding and empower them to harness their capacities to build lasting peace and combat extremism, as well as to protect them from the negative impacts of conflict and prevent them from falling prey to the forces of evil, violence and extremism. To guarantee the effectiveness of the Organization and its Charter, we must work together and keep youth at the top of our priorities, with a view to building comprehensive and just peace through this Organization. In conclusion, I recall the statement that His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al-Hussein delivered to the European Parliament last week, “My father, the late King Hussein, taught me that peacemaking is always the harder but the noblest way”.”
2020-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8706 (2020) · source
“The two-State solution is therefore the only path towards peace in the Middle East through the establishment of a Palestinian State with full sovereignty over its national territory and along the 4 June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. In that regard, I need to stress that peace in the Middle East will pave the way for a life full of hope, opportunities, prosperity and progress for the millions of young people in our region and throughout the world who yearn for a better life and future. During its membership of the Security Council in 2014-2015, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan initiated the historic resolution 2250 (2015) on youth and peace and security.”
2020-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8706 (2020) · source
“The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, under the leadership of His Majesty King Abdullah II, the guardian of Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, continues to confront attacks on those holy sites head-on, using all diplomatic and legal means at its disposal. We will spare no effort in that regard and will continue to diligently protect, maintain and care for those holy sites. In that context, we commend the role played by the Al-Quds Committee, chaired by His Majesty King Mohammed VI of sisterly Morocco. A more peaceful world cannot be achieved without a stable Middle East. Stability in the Middle East is not possible without peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis.”
2020-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8706 (2020) · source
“The safety and integrity of Islamic and Christian holy sites, especially the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, are also under serious threat by the Israeli occupation. Such attacks and violations, which have been internationally condemned, are in flagrant contravention of international law and international humanitarian law. Those breaches of international legitimacy have repeatedly and systematically been manifested since East Jerusalem and the West Bank came under Israeli military occupation in 1967. The numerous resolutions issued by the various organs of the United Nations, including the Security Council, consider all such Israeli measures, violations and aggressions in occupied East Jerusalem, including the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque/ Al-Haram Al-Sharif, as null and void and without legal or political effect.”
2020-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8706 (2020) · source
“On Libya, we reaffirm the importance of adopting a political solution and supporting the efforts of the United Nations as a means to overcome the crisis and guarantee the security, stability and territorial integrity of the country. The Palestinian question remains our central issue and deepest wound, as it is the main cause of the crises ravaging the Middle East. Unilateral measures continue, as do violence, injustice, the building of settlements and a lack of respect for international law. The frequency of violations and aggressions perpetrated by Israel, the occupying Power, in occupied Jerusalem continues to escalate in a systematic and dangerous manner. The Israeli occupation is seeking, by various means and methods, to impose new conditions that may alter the Arab and Islamic identity and legal status of Jerusalem.”
2020-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8706 (2020) · source
“We would also like to reaffirm Jordan’s unwavering support for Iraq in maintaining its security, stability and prosperity, protecting all factions of the Iraqi people and countering terrorism. Terrorism is a danger to all of us in the region and throughout the world. It constitutes a security and ideological threat that we must confront collectively, no matter where terrorist organizations are. With regard to the Syrian crisis, the international community must step up its efforts and build on what has been achieved thus far in order to reach a political solution that preserves Syria’s unity, cohesion and sovereignty, restores its security and stability and rids it of terrorism.”
2020-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8706 (2020) · source
“Ms. Bahous (Jordan) (spoke in Arabic): Allow me at the outset to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your country’s assumption of the presidency of the Security Council this month, as well as on its accession to membership of the Council for the period 2020-2021. I also extend my congratulations to the other new elected members of the Security Council and express my sincere appreciation to the five non-permanent members that left the Security Council at the end of 2019. I also thank Ms. DiCarlo and Ms. Mueller for their briefings. With regard to the recent escalation of the situation in the Middle East, we stress the need to make every effort to seek calm and reduce tensions in order to avoid any further threat to the security and stability of the region.”
2020-01-21 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8706 (2020) · source
“Finally, as we approach 2020, the twentieth anniversary of the adoption ofresolution 1325 (2000), it is imperative that we advance the women and peace and security agenda by including and empowering women politically, socially and economically and ensuring safe universal education for all women and girls. We need to break the mould, we need to change perceptions now and for the next generations, and we need to fight the pushback and the current that are setting us back.”
2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source
“To fulfil our commitments to the SDGs, particularly Goal 5, and to realize better implementation and localization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Jordanian Department of Statistics, relevant governmental bodies and civil society organizations, in collaboration with UN-Women, are relentlessly working through a three-pillar programme in order to reach a supportive policy and institutional environment to improve the monitoring of national and international commitments to the SDGs, while regularly generating quality and comparable gender statistics and ensuring that gender statistics are widely accessible and used to inform policymakers.”
2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source
“United Nations reports indicate that, unfortunately, only 13 per cent ofcountries allocate funding to statistics and data, and almost 80 per cent of the gender-equality indicators across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are lacking data. Disaggregated data sheds light on areas where progress is made, reveals gaps where further efforts are needed and identifies the resources necessary to shape national policies and plans.”
2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source
“Jordan believes that increasing women's participation in peacekeeping is a critical factor for the overall success of peace missions. We are therefore intensifying efforts in order to reach 15 per cent female participation by 2020 in order to meet Jordan's commitment to the Secretary-General's Action for Peacekeeping initiative. Allow me to commend the United Nations peacekeeping missions on the impressive evolution of their human-resources capacities and priorities related to prevention and response to Victims of war and violence, including sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict situations, and to making the safety of all, particularly that of women and girls, a priority of their active involvement in peace processes.”
2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source
“In that regard, Jordan welcomes the report of the Secretary-General on women and peace and security (S/2019/800), particularly its recommendation on adopting the necessary measures to address the social, cultural and political barriers to women's full participation in the security and law enforcement sectors, such as increasing the number of female uniformed personnel in peace operations. My country has made big strides towards integrating gender perspectives across all peacekeeping functions and is committed to further developing best practices on gender mainstreaming in military and police operations, including in predeployment training, as well as supporting the roles and tasks ofgender advisers deployed in peacekeeping missions.”
2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source
“While men have long been considered the only relevant actors in armed conflict and its resolution, women have been gravely affected and involved in conflict as relatives, caretakers, politicians, human rights defenders and combatants. Efforts should be directed at increasing the engagement of women, not only in soft and preventive diplomacy, but also at the core of peace processes, as we all know that women's participation adds a broader range of perspectives at multiple levels, enabling inclusivity and diversity, which have proven to lead to more sustainable peace.”
2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source
“Jordan's adoption in 2017 of an ambitious national action plan on the implementation ofresolution 1325 (2000), with a budget allocation from the Jordanian Government and generous pool-funding from our donor partners, is an example of our commitment to enabling women's participation in conflict prevention, peacekeeping, the prevention of violent extremism and gender-based violence. We are at a pivotal moment in history. Xenophobes and racists have emerged from the shadows, women's rights are suffering pushback, the space of civil activism is shrinking and the legitimacy of the principles of human rights is being attacked. We all know that men and women are impacted differently by conflict. A more inclusive approach to the way peacemaking is carried out is need.”
2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source
“Allow me, at the outset, to congratulate South Africa on its successful presidency of the Security Council for this month and to welcome, with appreciation, this morning's unanimous adoption of resolution 2493 (2019) on women and peace and security, of which my country is a proud sponsor. I would also like to extend my thanks to the briefers. Their insights inspire us all and their views are invaluable. My country, Jordan, would like to align itself with the statement to be delivered later this afternoon by the representative of Canada on behalf of the 56 Member States representing all five regional groups of the United Nations. Jordan has always been committed to maintaining peace and security, not only in the Middle East but also in areas of conflict worldwide, where it provides peacekeeping troops and expertise.”
2019-10-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8649Resumption1 (2019) · source
“We must offer more opportunities and hope, especially to young people, men and women so as to avoid despair and prevent the spread of violence, extremism and terrorism - scourges that find fertile ground in poverty, oppression, injustice and the absence of hope. In conclusion, the primary crisis in the Middle East is the Palestinian question. The region will not enjoy security, stability and peace without the elimination of occupation and a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict based on a two-State solution that will guarantee the Palestinian people their right to liberty, statehood and a dignified life. Such a solution must lead to the establishment of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State within the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital, living side by side with Israel in peace and security.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“From this Chamber, we reiterate our call on the international community to assume its responsibilities and to provide Jordan and other countries hosting refugees with continuous support. Syrian refugees are the victims of the disastrous Syrian crisis and it is incumbent upon all of us - not just the host countries - to collectively bear the responsibility of offering them a dignified life until they can return home. Serious collective action and diligent multilateral diplomatic efforts must succeed in tackling these urgent international issues and arriving at peaceful political solutions to crises, as well as supporting efforts to achieve sustainable development.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source
“We would also like to stress the need for sisterly Syria to recover its health and role as the pillar of security, stability and development in the Middle East and of the system of collective Arab action. Jordan has always been a destination for all those seeking succour and we have opened our hearts, our doors and our homes to all those who have sought our help. We have faced many challenges since the Syrian crisis began and, from the very start, we have shouldered a large part of the humanitarian disaster that ensued. We have borne that burden on behalf of the international community. Today, Jordan hosts the second largest percentage of refugees compared to the size of its population, according to statistics of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.”
2019-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8648 (2019) · source