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2023-10-25
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  1. “In that process, the Senator is proposing, in dialogue with various platforms of women in Colombia, that we seek to feminize the processes, that we seek creative peace, that the voices of women, who in the various regions of the country have given their hearts and lives to building peace, are heard in the different women’s platforms.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  2. “A victim of violence herself, she went into exile at an early age after the assassination, at the age of 38, of her father, Carlos Pizarro, the top commander of the 19 April Movement, who had signed a peace agreement and faced death. Today Senator Pizarro, who has been playing a key role in the process with the ELN and in her work for peace, victims’ rights and the rights of women, youth and ethnic communities in Colombia, shares with so many other women at the dialogue table and beyond a determined struggle for peace.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  3. “I would like to name them to give them a face and to recognize the power of each of them sitting at the dialogue table, which have the honour to support. I am referring to Silvana, Isabel and Consuelo, representatives of the ELN; Claudia and Violeta, peace managers; Olga, Nigeria, Dayana, Rosmery and Adelaida, representatives of the Government; Loreto and Angela from the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia; Marit and Helietta from Norway and Mexico; and lastly, María Paz, who directly supports the Head of the Delegation of the Government and whose name always inspires us at the dialogue table. I would like to refer in particular to Senator María José Pizarro, Vice-President of the Senate of the Republic and member of the delegation of the Colombian Government.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  4. “The National Participation Committee — it is important to note — is made up of 30 sectors and 82 members, of whom 38 per cent are women. In conclusion, I would like to express my sorrow and my solidarity with all the women and girls victims of past and present tragedies. Today I am thinking about the young women and girls of Israel and Palestine. I am reminded of the words of President Lula da Silva, whom Minister for Foreign Affairs Mauro Vieira recalled yesterday in the debate on the Middle East: “[t] here needs to be a minimum of humanity in the insanity of war.” (S/PV.9451, p.12) I would also like to pay tribute to the brave Colombian women who have faced the horrors of violence and the pain of loss.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  5. “The historic agreement reached in Mexico at the beginning of the year, which set the final agenda for the negotiations and established that the dialogue will work with a gender and women’s rights perspective and will include national and international recommendations and instruments aimed at increasing the participation of women in building and maintaining peace. After four negotiation cycles, the progress in the dialogue has been encouraging. The parties were able, for the first time, to agree on and implement a 180- day ceasefire, with the intention of it continuing. They also established the National Participation Committee, which has been working, since 3 August, to design of a large consultation process throughout the country.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  6. “I would like to mention briefly, for example, the recent opening of Case 11, which will investigate cases of rape and other types of gender-based violence in the framework of the implementation of the 2016 peace process — that is very important. In the process with the ELN, which I have the honour of supporting and for which opportunity I am very grateful, women are also present as builders and promoters of peace. The State delegation is seeking to ensure parity, with the contribution of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian women leaders, human rights defenders, military and police observers, representatives of religious entities and private initiatives, among other entities. On the side of the ELN, women are also present in a significant way.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  7. “More than that, a negotiating dynamic is being generated from within our Latin America that has the potential to serve as an example to the world. The differentiated and prominent presence of women in the two delegations at the panel for peace talks with the ELN is a reality. Moreover, that was not — as we know — the first inclusive and diverse experience that Colombia has carried out. In the process with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP), Colombia incorporated a gender perspective that served as a model. It acknowledged the disproportionate impact of the conflict on women and effectively incorporated the theme of gender at the negotiating table and in the implementation of the 2016 Final Agreement for Ending the Conflict and Building a Stable and Lasting Peace.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  8. “Every day, news broadcasts show us many images of the men who lead wars and at the same time — ironically — the men who negotiate or mediate peace. The images of women that reach us generally present them as victims of tragedies or simply as caregivers in shelters, in their homes and hospitals, facing the pain and despair caused by dynamics that they have neither initiated nor supported. However, I do not wish to conclude my speech on a despondent note. I bring words of hope and optimism from my experience at the panel for peace talks between the Government of Colombia and the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). Making progress on the road to peace in Colombia, after decades of conflict, is of vital importance for that sisterly nation and for the entire region.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  9. “The route from theory to practice remains fraught with visible and invisible obstacles, setbacks or threats of setbacks to advancing the status of women, a worsening of their vulnerabilities and clearly insufficient levels of participation in decision-making processes. Resolution 1325 (2000) paved the way and provided the necessary tools. It has led to regulatory advances, but the implementation of that standard is not keeping pace. Rhetorical recognition is not enough. While we follow and observe with trepidation — and as the Secretary-General said, we are on the edge of the precipice — the serious and increasing risks to peace and security worldwide, we note that it is still mostly men, or only men, whom we find at negotiating tables. I am reminded of a very simple and frequently used expression: a picture is worth a thousand words.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  10. “In circumstances of forced displacement, kidnappings and rape, deteriorating living conditions and the abandonment of projects and dreams for the future, women have their lives materially, socially and psychologically upended, in a spiral that leaves deep and, more often than not, irreversible traces. Worse still, many of those women end up as part of the grim statistics of fatalities and disappearances. It is undoubtedly women who pay the highest price for war, and it is also women who, as we know, are more likely to support inclusive forms of governance and coexistence, to favour investing in sustainable development and to opt for funding peace over allocating resources to war. Therefore, in the area of peace and security studies, it is very clear — the observation is simple and obvious. But what of the actual state of affairs?”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source

  11. “I would like to thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to join the Security Council and civil society representatives and to participate in the debate on the issue of women’s participation in international peace and security, from theory to practice. First of all, we must recognize that, 23 years after the historic adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), we have made progress towards understanding the issue and incorporating it into the international and national agendas of a growing number of Governments, academia and society in general. Extensive data highlights that women, young people and children — as we heard today — are the main victims of conflict.”

    2023-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9452 (2023) · source