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2010-10-26
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2010-10-26
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  1. “Norway supports the women and peace and security agenda because we know that it is the only way to achieve sustainable peace and to free millions of women and children from the appalling suffering we have seen in too many current conflicts. This suffering and humiliation is a scar on humanity's face. We cannot tolerate this.”

    2010-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6411 (2010) · source

  2. “We will contribute experts on gender and gender- based violence to international peacekeeping operations. Last week, we deployed a team of such experts from Norway's national police to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. Norway will further strengthen our support to the United Nations work to promote and protect gender equality and the empowerment of women. Our proposed allocation for 2011 is more than $30 million. Finally, we will also act urgently to boost the work of UN Women and will support its new and welcome strategic partnership with the Department of Political Affairs, specifically the project to increase women's participation in peace processes and to improve the gender balance at all levels of mediation. The Norwegian Government will immediately provide $1 million to this project.”

    2010-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6411 (2010) · source

  3. “Beyond what we have already done, I hereby announce that Norway will immediately take on the following commitments. We will continue to increase the number of female soldiers and officers, both in standing military forces and in our contributions to international operations. The next two commanders of Norway's national command in Afghanistan will be women. Recognizing that we also have a long way to go, I will now make sure our military operations rest on a gender analysis and adjust our operational demands accordingly. We will strengthen the gender education of our armed forces and our police, and we will introduce a new system of reporting on gender and the role of women in field missions, starting in December with the Norwegian-led provincial reconstruction team in Meymaneh, Afghanistan.”

    2010-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6411 (2010) · source

  4. “I call on the Security Council to show leadership by maintaining its focus on the full implementation of all resolutions on women and peace and security; by endorsing today the indicators proposed by the Secretary-General for this purpose; and by making the prosecution of perpetrators a political priority. I commend the work of Special Representative of the Secretary-General Wallstrom in this regard. We must provide the United Nations with resources, including financing, to follow up on the ground. I welcome the establishment of UN Women, and I congratulate its first Executive Director, Under- Secretary-General Michelle Bachelet. I trust that she will monitor and support Member States and the United Nations in ensuring the full implementation of all the resolutions on women and peace and security.”

    2010-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6411 (2010) · source

  5. “We obviously have a job to do to make the military men take this seriously. As Minister of Defence, 1 note that all of the United Nations force commanders are men. It is high time to rectify this. I call on the United Nations to start searching for women commanders while we continue to improve the gender ratio of our forces. We must get better at explaining that resolution 1325 (2000) is not about political correctness. The better protection and more equal participation of women in social, economic and political life - including in peace processes and security services - improve the quality of the process and the service, making the result more sustainable. We simply cannot afford to ignore half of society's talent and capacity. We must also ensure greater accountability.”

    2010-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6411 (2010) · source

  6. “Ten years ago, atrocities in Somalia, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia made even the hardliners soft - or at least softer. For the first time, they let this Council discuss and agree on key questions for sustainable peace: What do women want? What do women need? How can women contribute? Thus resolution 1325 (2000) came about. At least on paper, this resolution gives women a voice and better protection. Mr. President, I thank you and the Council for convening this open ministerial meeting to remind us all of what a long way we still have to go to make the good intentions of resolution 1325 (2000) a reality. Ten years after the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), at the NATO Ministerial Council meeting earlier this month, I called for including resolution 1325 (2000) in the NATO concept of operations.”

    2010-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6411 (2010) · source