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  1. “Seventh, we empower women through establishing mentoring networks and have started to partner with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs to boost women's empowerment in the area of peace and security in order to create a critical mass of trained women in the OSCE region to address disarmament and non-proliferation issues. The OSCE remains fully committed to comprehensive and inclusive peace and security. It is for this reason that Secretary General Lamberto Zannier is organizing an OSCE Security Day on 13 November 2015 to discuss ways to further advance the women and peace and security agenda. This will be a good opportunity to identify how the conclusions of this high-level review and the global study can be operationalized in the framework of the OSCE.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  2. “Fifth, we are working on strengthening the interchange between international organizations, States and civil society. We must not forget the important role that civil society has played from the very beginning in pushing for the women and peace and security agenda as well as its vital role in the implementation of national action plans and providing much-needed monitoring and oversight. Sixth, over the past years the OSCE has sought to highlight the role of women and gender issues in the context of countering terrorist radicalization. The Global Counterterrorism Forum, at its Ministerial Conference on 27 September 2015, adopted a document on good practices on women and countering violent extremism, which was drafted and developed by the OSCE in cooperation with the Forum.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  3. “Second, we assist participating States in improving existing national action plans and other strategies or developing new ones, with a focus on creating coherence between domestic and outward-looking implementation activities. Third, as we believe that preventing sexual and gender-based violence in conflict starts with combating violence against women and domestic violence in peacetime, we have strengthened our activities in this area and, inter alia, promote the ratification of the Istanbul Convention as a key international document and tool. Fourth, we need more quality information and data to inform policies and systematic responses and to learn more about the impact of the work we are doing on women and peace and security. We need more research and intend to cooperate more closely with academia.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  4. “The results of the study were largely consistent with the conclusions of the regional consultations we held with UN-Women and the Lithuanian Government in Vilnius in April this year to feed into the global study on resolution 1325 (2000). Drawing from these findings, we will focus our priority attention on, inter alia, the following issues. First, we deliver training to our staff, senior management and special representatives on gender- inclusive mediation and other conflict-prevention measures. Early warning, confidence-building, dialogue facilitation, preventive diplomacy and mediation are still predominantly male-dominated areas.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  5. “For example, 27 of the 54 existing national action plans on resolution 1325 (2000) are from the OSCE region, and several more are in the making. A number of OSCE participating States apply the provisions of the resolution without having a national action plan. In practical terms, our network of 59 gender focal points throughout OSCE executive structures assists staff in gender-mainstreaming their work, involving women in all of our projects and actions, and incorporating gender analysis in our work on the conflict cycle. We also have developed tools and instruments for this purpose, and we undertook a study on the 27 national action plans to get a deeper understanding of where we stand with the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda in the OSCE region.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  6. “The OSCE is the largest regional security organization in the world dealing with early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post- conflict rehabilitation. We have a holistic approach to security that includes politico-military issues and economic and environmental security, as well as human rights and the rule of law. Gender equality as a cross-cutting issue is one of the cornerstones of our comprehensive and cooperative security concept, and therefore the women and peace and security agenda plays a central role in our work. There are a number of key OSCE policy documents that explicitly refer to resolution 1325 (2000). Looking back at the 15 years of implementation of the resolution, we can clearly see that progress has been made.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  7. “Ms. Beham: I wish to thank you, Mr. President, for allowing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to participate once again in this important debate and to share our experiences in the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). It is my special pleasure to be here today on behalf of the OSCE Secretary General. Let me also express my appreciation and congratulate you, Sir, and the Security Council on the adoption of another seminal resolution on women and peace and security. I wish also to thank previous speakers and in particular the briefers for their interesting and inspiring presentations. The fifteenth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000) is a very appropriate occasion for us all to reflect on how we can make our world more peaceful and just by creating security that is fully inclusive.”

    2015-10-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7533 (2015) · source

  8. “But it is obvious that States have the primary responsibility for ensuring that the provisions of the women and peace and security agenda are translated into action. I strongly believe that an enhanced cooperation between the United Nations and the OSCE will benefit our member States, as well as our Organization's efforts to strengthen the commitment to global peace and security.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  9. “The OSCE will be happy to feed the findings of our study on national action plans into the global review of resolution 1325 (2000) led by UN-Women for the upcoming anniversary, and we will be pleased to contribute to that review by offering the results of our work on the gender aspects of violent extremism that leads to terrorism. Over the years, we have gathered unique expertise in that area, and we are proud to share it in order to improve the global fight against terrorism. Regional organizations, such as the OSCE, working on the maintenance of international peace and security have a recognized role in promoting all aspects of resolution 1325 (2000) and its follow-up resolutions, which include the protection and empowerment of displaced women.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  10. “We have invited Ukrainian women to come to Vienna in November to meet with OSCE senior representatives to discuss the situation ofwomen in the conflict, including as IDPs, and their suggestions for resolving the crisis. We feel that it is of utmost importance that women now become part of the peace process in Ukraine and of any dialogue to settle the conflict and rebuild trust. As we are approaching the fifteenth anniversary of the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), we need even more concerted efforts to further the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda. There has been much progress since the adoption of that ground-breaking document, but much also remains to be done.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  11. “The Mission includes a gender adviser in its core team at headquarters to assist with gender mainstreaming in conflict analysis, in addition to reaching out to women's groups from all sides. We have created a gender focal-point network in the teams that are deployed throughout the country. We also strive to increase gender balance among the monitors. Currently approximately 27 per cent of them are women. Among other things, the Mission is monitoring the situation of the internally displaced persons (IDPs), of whom the majority are women, in order to ascertain what their needs are. We are also looking at ways to include women and women's organizations in the formal negotiations to put an end to the conflict.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  12. “In an effort to strengthen the empowerment and conflict prevention elements of the women and peace and security agenda, to strengthen the linkage of formal mediation and dialogue facilitation with informal peace initiatives, and to ensure that women, including displaced women, become active stakeholders in peace processes, we published our Guidance Note on Enhancing Gender-Responsive Mediation in 2013 and are now working on its implementation. In our most recent effort, the OSCE has again proven its commitment to the principles of the women and peace and security agenda in setting up its Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine as a response to the ongoing crisis there.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  13. “Our study on the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) and its follow-up resolutions indicates that States tend to disregard the empowerment aspect when designing their national action plans, in particular when it comes to the domestic security sector or the inclusion of women in conflict prevention measures such as early warning, confidence-building, dialogue facilitation, preventive diplomacy or mediation. On the basis of the study, we will work with OSCE participating States to improve that aspect. We have heard some of them today speak about their national action plans.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  14. “However, such an approach, as important as it is, reduces women to mere victims and does not take into account the many other significant provisions of the women and peace and security agenda that call for the participation of women in decision-making, conflict prevention and resolution and peace processes. It does not take into account the political and economic empowerment of women and the crucial role of women in rebuilding societies.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  15. “Last week, the OSCE launched a study on national action plans for the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) in the OSCE region, which we undertook in cooperation with the Peace Research Institute Oslo. The study looks into the 27 national action plans that exist among the 57 OSCE participating States and identifies good practices, lessons learned and challenges that still hamper the implementation of the women and peace and security agenda. Although different protection issues feature high on the women and peace and security agenda, the national action plans that we studied focus mostly on the protection of women against sexual violence. Many of the national action plans in fact refer to protection against sexual violence as an important reason to create women and peace and security policies.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  16. “That so-called protection checklist has been fully gender mainstreamed and includes separate references to sexual and gender- based violence against displaced persons, in particular women and children. As its name says, the protection checklist offers very concrete operational instructions and recommendations for field staff on how to protect displaced populations and their rights, and it draws from the unfortunately rich experience of the OSCE and of course UNHCR in dealing with displacement. Among the many lessons that we have learned from tackling displacement is that there has to be a special focus on the different experiences women and girls have in the various phases of the conflict cycle and that the different protection needs of women and girls have to be taken into account when responding to displacement situations.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  17. “In an effort to strengthen the strategic partnership between the OSCE and the United Nations, we have developed, among many other things, together with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and in close coordination with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons - whom we heard speak today - a handbook on a collaborative approach to addressing displacement and the protection ofdisplaced populations and affected communities throughout the conflict cycle, from early warning and conflict prevention to crisis management, conflict resolution and post-conflict transition and rehabilitation.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  18. “In the OSCE, we therefore view gender equality as a basic concept for attaining security. That is where we believe the OSCE comprehensive security approach is largely congruent with resolution 1325 (2000), on the women and peace and security agenda. I am here today as a representative of the OSCE, the world's largest regional security organization, with 57 participating States, stretching from Vancouver to Vladivostok. As such, I would like to emphasize that we wholeheartedly support and try to proactively contribute to the ongoing process of strengthening the role of regional organizations under Chapter VIII of the Charter of the United Nations.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  19. “It is not just traditional security stemming from the security forces such as the police and the military that we address, but the politico-military dimension and aspects ranging from the economic and environmental to the human dimension, which includes the rule of law, legal reform and human rights. In fact, as the OSCE Heads of State and Government endorsed in 2010, it is the inherent dignity of the individual that is at the core of comprehensive security. Thus, gender equality as a concept for ensuring the dignity of women and men is one of the cornerstones of our comprehensive security approach. That approach recognizes, as I already indicated, that security analysis should go beyond the traditional understanding of security and include aspects of economic rights, environmental security and human rights, including women's rights.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  20. “Ms. Beham: I thank you, Madam President, for allowing the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to participate in this important debate. I too would like to thank the briefers for their interesting and thought-provoking statements this morning. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe deals with early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. It has a uniquely broad concept of security that encompasses a wide set of areas that we believe influence the stability and security of a country.”

    2014-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7289 (2014) · source

  21. “For example, next month we will be co-hosting a conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan for OSCE participating States to discuss with expert representatives and civil society organizations progress in drafting and implementing national action plans or other strategies on Security Council resolution 1325 (2000). The results of this conference will be merged with the outcome of an OSCE study on good practices and lessons learned by OSCE participating States, which was undertaken with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. We hope that events and research such as those will provide us with further insight on how to put into practice important goals in the resolutions on women, peace and security and, that Member States of the United Nations can benefit from the knowledge generated by the OSCE.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  22. “Both national authorities and international and regional organizations increasingly recognize that a better understanding of the dynamics of this issue is central to formulating and implementing effective strategies that will increase stability and security. In 2014, the OSCE will undertake a new initiative, in partnership with the Global Counterterrorism Forum, to promote gender-sensitive strategies, policies and measures to counter violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism, with an emphasis on empowering women to contribute to those efforts in different roles and capacitiesl would like to conclude by drawing attention to the good cooperation between OSCE field operations and UN Women offices on women, peace and security issues.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  23. “We are grateful to the Secretariat's Department of Political Affairs and the Mediation Support Unit for their inspiring cooperation in preparing this guidance note. Allow me at this point to refer to one more issue that we believe is important, also in the framework of today's debate. The OSCE is a leader in a key peace and security issue that is not discussed enough from a perspective of women, peace and security: integrating a gender perspective in combating violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism. This is an issue of serious concern to OSCE participating States.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  24. “As I said, the OSCE is the world's largest regional security organization. It also plays an important role throughout the region in mediation, dialogue facilitation, good offices and quiet diplomacy. The organization has increased its efforts to ensure that those processes are inclusive. We are pleased to announce that on 24 October, in Istanbul, the OSCE will launch a guidance note on gender-responsive mediation. The purpose of the guidance note is not only to increase women's participation in mediation, dialogue and quiet diplomacy initiatives, but also to strengthen the capacity of mediators to understand how the substantive concerns of both men and women can be included in those processes and how that inclusion benefits the sustainability of conflict resolution and reconciliation.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  25. “Also, through a number of women's resource centre networks supported by the OSCE in Central Asia and the Caucasus, our organization helps to enhance women's access to legal aid. But the judiciary is, of course, not the only actor involved in the rule of law, and the OSCE also works with participating States to increase the number ofwomen in the police and to make law enforcement activities gender-sensitive as a part of comprehensive security sector reforms facilitated by our Organization in many countries. Within the politico-military dimension, the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation promotes the inclusion of women in the military, including in combat positions, making sure that civilian oversight and human rights in the armed forces are guaranteed for men and women alike.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  26. “From a substantive perspective, our mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina supports the integration of a gender perspective into war crimes-trial monitoring by providing specific training for civil society on how to monitor conflict-related sexual violence cases and understand the specific challenges that witnesses and Victims face in such processes. Trial monitors are then better prepared to gather data on how such cases progress through the judicial system and to advocate for policy improvements based on the data. This is one step in ensuring that justice and accountability are pursued equally for all violations and crimes, regardless of their nature or the sex of the victim.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  27. “The OSCE field operations, institutions and secretariat are implementing a variety of activities related to war crimesjustice, trial monitoring, criminaljustice reform, judicial independence and administrative justice. We undertake every effort to mainstream the participation of women into these activities and to integrate gender into our substantive approaches. To takejust one example, the OSCE promotes gender balance in its work with judicial personnel because we believe that diversity has a positive impact on women's access to justice and the perceived legitimacy of the judiciary.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  28. “The OSCE participating States have acknowledged the importance of the women, peace and security agenda by adopting a number of Ministerial Council decisions, including one explicitly dedicated to increasing women's participation in conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation and another dealing with the elements of the conflict cycle to include commitments under resolution 1325 (2000). As a result, the OSCE has taken a number ofinitiatives, both at the secretariat level and in its field operations, to implement these Ministerial Council decisions, in particular in conflict-affected contexts in the OSCE region. Let me begin with our activities related to the theme of today's debate - women, the rule of law and transitional justice in conflict-affected contexts.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  29. “There is now a good window of opportunity to give women, peace and security issues a boost on the regional level as the United Nations is currently leading a process of strengthening the role of regional organizations under Chapter VIII of the Charter, dealing with conflict prevention, in particular early warning and early action. The OSCE Secretary General, in his recent round of consultations with senior United Nations interlocutors, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Deputy Secretary-General Eliasson, found strong support for the OSCE to play a central role in this process. The OSCE welcomes the adoption of resolution 2122 (2013) today, which clearly recognizes the efforts of regional organizations in implementing women, peace and security commitments, including the development of action plans and implementation frameworks.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  30. “While it is obvious that States have the primary responsibility to ensure that the resolutions on women, peace and security are translated into action, regional organizations working on the maintenance of international peace and security, such as the OSCE, also have a recognized role. Both the recent presidential statement on cooperation with regional organizations (S/PRST/2013/12), adopted in August, and several of the women, peace and security resolutions refer to the crucial contribution of regional organizations to affirming the participation of women in conflict prevention, conflict resolution mechanisms and peacebuilding.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source

  31. “Ms. Beham: I thank you, Sir, for allowing me to participate on behalf of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in this important debate. I would also like to thank the briefers and other speakers for their thought-provoking presentations. As the representative of the world's largest regional security organization, I would like at the outset to devote a few remarks to the role that regional organizations can and should play with respect to the implementation of the commitments resulting from the women, peace and security agenda. We have already heard a number of remarks in that regard.”

    2013-10-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7044 (2013) · source