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Gil Savastano

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2023-03-07
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2023-03-07
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  1. “We believe that the Security Council should address the differentiated impacts of armed conflict on the LGBTIQ+ community and consider a resolution that strengthens the previous resolutions on the subject. In that context, we welcomed resolution 2250 (2015) on youth, peace and security and believe that the LGBTIQ+ community requires the same attention from the Security Council. Resolution 1325 (2000) has become a catalyst for mobilization in Colombia, and we hope to return in September to present our national action plan in the General Assembly. Our national action plan is for women and by women. To the women of the world and the women of Colombia, we say do not give up, and keep insisting. As our Vice-President Francia Márquez Mina says, let us keep fighting until dignity has become a habit.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  2. “This process of formulating a national action plan with this level of participation has allowed us to reach some conclusions that we respectfully present to the members of the Security Council. First, Colombia believes that the women and peace and security agenda lacks intersectionality. The Security Council should recognize the multiple identities, such as race, ethnicity, social class, nationality and sexual orientation, that intersect to deepen discrimination. No Colombian woman is only a woman. We are many women at the same time, and we hope that the Security Council will reflect our challenges as they are. Secondly, Colombia believes that the women and peace and security agenda lacks diversity.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  3. “Resolution 1325 (2000) today, 23 years after its adoption, has provoked an explosion of participation in Colombia that has surprised, surpassed and gratified us. Urban, peasant and rural women, mestizo, indigenous and Afro-Colombian women, heterosexual and LGTBI+ women, and workers and professionals are meeting every day in every corner of Colombia to discuss, exchange, coordinate and formulate a public policy for peace and security. The very process of formulation has become one of political participation and therefore of empowerment. Most important, the women of Colombia are redefining the content of resolution 1325 (2000), appropriating it and moulding it to their circumstances, and, in so doing, they are bringing it to bear on the challenges they face in 2023. Resolution 1325 (2000) is a living text in Colombia.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  4. “Despite the fact that Colombia negotiated the world’s first peace agreement with a gender perspective, the debts owed to women in terms of peace and security persist. We are pleased to announce that, 23 years after the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000) — that is, 23 years late — Colombia is drafting its first national action plan based on the resolution, and we are doing so hand in hand with the women’s movement. With the assistance of UN-Women, we are organizing — or rather, the women of Colombia are organizing — five regional forums, a national meeting and several sectoral workshops. We want an exemplary national action plan. It will have the victims of the conflict at its core, and it will pay special attention to the use of sexual violence as an instrument of war.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  5. “While the women and peace and security agenda needs updating — an injection of modern thinking — it is still, even in current state, in force, relevant and bearing fruit in Colombia. Let me therefore share our experience. As I said, Colombia is committed to “total peace” and to the fundamental role that women play as agents of change in this process. We have established as a national priority the guarantee for women in all their diversity to participate in the development of the “total peace” policy. We wish to be an international reference point for peace and life, and we believe that change is for and through women. We are moving towards structural transformations that will lead us to settle the debt in political representation, equality and economic autonomy owed to women and to guarantee to them the right to a life free of violence.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source

  6. “Ms. Gil Savastano (Colombia) (spoke in Spanish): The Government of Colombia has made a “total peace” commitment to the peaceful solution of conflicts because we believe in the supreme value of life. The “total peace” policy is wisdom, and we are calling for wisdom in defence of life. We condemn all violations of women’s rights in every corner of the world, and at this time we remember with special empathy the women of Iran. The struggle of Iranian women is the struggle for all of us, and they are not alone. The situation of women and girls in armed conflict today could lead us to question the relevance of the women and peace and security agenda. However, we are in this Chamber today to reassure you, Madam President.”

    2023-03-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9276Resumption1 (2023) · source