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2022-01-18

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2022-11-03

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1. “We believe that the United Nations will be able to make significant gains in the protection of women peacebuilders if Member States incorporate the global women and peace and security agenda and relevant Council resolutions into national action plans and programmes and implement them. Ghana also wishes to make the following four points on how States Members of the United Nations can ensure the protection of women in peace processes and how the Security Council can prevent and respond to intimidation, violence and attacks against women. First of all, the Council should urge the Secretary-General to ensure the allocation of targeted, practical and rapid resources to facilitate responses to threats against women peacebuilders or avert potential dangers when they occur.”

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2. “The Ministry of Gender is being supported by other stakeholders, including the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre and the West African Network for Peacebuilding, to enable the operationalization of the women and peace and security agenda in Ghana. Ghana is the ninth largest contributor of personnel to United Nations missions, and, as of April 2020, Ghanaian women constituted 14 per cent of military and 25.6 per cent of police personnel deployed to United Nations and African Union missions. The increasing representation of Ghanaian women in peacekeeping operations has increased Ghana’s protective abilities through national legislation.”

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3. “Upon the expiration of the first national action plan on resolution 1325 (2000) and based on the gaps identified in its implementation, the second edition of the action plan was launched in March 2020 and is expected to be operational until 2025. Efforts by diverse stakeholders to support the implementation of the second action plan include training gender activists in peace and security issues, training women as mediators and sensitizing women at the grass-roots level on their roles in ensuring peaceful societies. The Ghana Armed Forces, as well as other security agencies, are also currently reviewing their regulations with the objective of rolling out policies that are women- friendly and that ensure that women who participate in peace and security, including peacekeeping, are adequately protected.”

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4. “Ghana’s Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is the government agency responsible for coordinating the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) and other Security Council resolutions on women and peace and security. In 2012, the Ministry of Gender developed Ghana’s first national action plan on resolution 1325 (2000), for the period 2012-2014. Several activities were carried out under the action plan, including sensitization programmes and workshops for security agencies, traditional authorities and civil society organizations, among other institutions, which increased, to a large extent, awareness of the crucial role of women in peace and security across Ghana.”

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5. “These facts point to the pressing need for the United Nations and its States Members to create a safe environment to enable women to carry out their work independently, and without undue interference, in accordance with the tenets of resolutions 1325 (2000), 2467 (2019) and 2493 (2019). Permit me to share with the Council a number of initiatives being implemented by Ghana under the women and peace and security agenda and the protection of women in peace processes. Let me begin by indicating that Ghana’s formal structures aimed at augmenting the diverse roles of women in peace and security is derived, inter alia, from resolution 1325 (2000).”

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6. “It is therefore disheartening to observe the continued and progressive increase in intimidation, threats and reprisals against these women who are drivers of the positive change we all desire. In many cases, threats targeted at women peacebuilders are translated into unspeakable violence, costing many of them their lives. The Secretary-General’s 2021 annual report indicates that, in 2020, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights verified 35 cases of killings of women involved in peace and security, including human rights activists, journalists and trade unionists, in seven conflict-affected countries. Women academics, Supreme Court judges, youth advocates and civil society activists have been victims of severe retaliatory violence.”

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7. “It is Ghana’s sincere hope that our debate today, as the first open debate for the year 2022, will create the much-needed momentum for the rest of the year and beyond when it comes to protecting women in peace and security. Let me also commend the Secretary-General for his comprehensive 2021 annual report on women and peace and security (S/2021/827). The report highlights certain alarming realities endured by women in peace processes, which require the most urgent attention of the Security Council. Ghana notes with great concern the atrocities being committed against women who lend their time, energy and expertise to peace processes, with the objectives of safeguarding international peace and security and making our world a better place.”

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8. “I have the greatest pleasure to convey Ghana’s appreciation to the delegation of Norway for convening today’s all-important meeting. We are equally grateful to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Her Excellency Ms. Michelle Bachelet, and Zarqa Yaftali and Kaavya Asoka, the two civil society briefers, for their insightful briefings. The briefings have laid bare the contemporary threats faced by women peacebuilders, the factors that impede their full, equal and meaningful participation in peace processes and the means by which the Security Council can rightly address violence targeted at them It should always be our collective drive to ensure that women take their rightful place in national, regional and global peacebuilding efforts, in an atmosphere that is devoid of fear and panic.”

   2022-01-18 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8949 (2022) · source