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Escalante

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  1. “For its part, El Salvador will continue to promote gender-sensitive structures that foster national capacities, including empowering women to access increasingly higher ranks within our armed forces, as well as in the various multilateral forums in which we participate, in order to have better guidance in that regard and, ultimately, better gender parity. Finally, we would like to highlight our support for the Secretary-General's gender parity strategy, which we believe to be essential not only to comply with quotas for women's participation but also to focus on seeing women assume different levels of command in peacekeeping operations.”

    2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source

  2. “Particularly in my country, there are various challenges to increasing women's participation, such as cultural, economic and family issues. Many women police or military officers are also mothers, wives, widows or carers for the elderly. While, for structural reasons, men can strike a balance between participation in peacekeeping operations and family life, we must find ways in which women can do the same. Addressing women's different perceptions, specific situations, experiences and capacities will help to recognize the real obstacles to their participation and, as far as possible, overcome them.”

    2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source

  3. “We therefore welcome the creation of different mechanisms to continue to increase the participation of Salvadoran women in peacekeeping operations. In that regard, we welcome the Canadian Government's innovative Elsie Initiative on Women for Peace Operations to step up our efforts for women's active participation, including by encouraging more deployments in more flexible formats. Despite the insistence and the various efforts made to reach the minimum of 15 per cent of female troops, the likelihood ofa decrease in the coming years is quite high, as the Secretary-General points out in his report of October 2018 (S/2018/900). My country believes it important to deepen the analysis of this issue and to re-evaluate the approach guiding our efforts.”

    2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source

  4. “That is a relatively small number in comparison to other contributors but it is significant in the context of my country and has been increasing in recent years. The Salvadoran women carry out different tasks at various levels, such as expert helicopter pilots and crews, for example, in our contingent in Mali, institutional-building work in Haiti, health activities through specialized doctors or the recent deployment of our first military observer in the mission in South Sudan. Nevertheless, we note that we must continue to make progress at the national level to meet the percentage established by the United Nations in terms of women's participation in peace operations, not only because the United Nations requires it but also because we are convinced that it is right.”

    2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source

  5. “Practice has shown that when women participate in peace talks, they broaden the debate beyond the interests of the parties to the conflict and advocate for a more equitable peace. Unfortunately, women continue to be excluded from conflict prevention, management and resolution. The women in peacekeeping agenda, in addition to increasing their active participation in such processes, should promote full respect for the human rights of women and girls, the prevention of sexual and gender- based violence in conflict, gender equity and the integration of gender perspectives into all its activities. El Salvador is committed to peacekeeping operations and currently almost 9 per cent of the total number of its armed forces and national civil police officers serving in the seven peace missions in which we participate are women.”

    2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source

  6. “Mr. Escalante (El Salvador) (spoke in Spanish): I would like to begin by aligning myself with the statement made by the representative of Canada on behalf of the Group of Friends of Women, Peace and Security. Like others, I thank the German presidency for convening this open debate. I also thank the Secretary- General, Major General Lund, Head of Mission, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, and Ms. Merekaje, Secretary General of South Sudan Democratic Engagement Monitoring and Observation Programme, for their briefings. As we have all said today, women play a fundamental role in peacekeeping operations. Their inclusion strengthens the defence of human rights and leads to better results in peace negotiations. They bring different perspectives and priorities to prevention, resolution and peacebuilding processes.”

    2019-04-11 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8508 (2019) · source