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Greie Polie

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2000-10-24
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  1. “Hence, perhaps a comparative survey of State practices on a set of issues and topics addressed in today's debate would be a useful step towards institutionalizing reporting mechanisms within various areas of women's participation and gender mainstreaming in peace and security matters.”

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  2. “Elizabeth Rehn advanced the following bold proposal: when Member States are submitting candidatures for senior United Nations posts they should always present the Secretary-General with two equally qualified candidates, a man and a woman. The Security Council has in the past called for women to play an equal part in the maintenance of peace and security; so did the Secretary-General's strategic plan of action. Arguably, more can be done at the international level in concrete practical terms, but the issue also clearly rests with the Member States and their domestic policies.”

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  3. “Although in some cases today, and certainly in a perfect world of tomorrow, a special representative's gender should not, and would not, matter, we must recognize the fact that so far very few women have served as personal envoys, representatives or special representatives of the Secretary-General. In fact, unless I am mistaken, today we have no Dame Margarets and no Elizabeth Rehns; no woman is currently heading a United Nations peace operation or serving as a special envoy or special representative of the Secretary- General. Some argue that perhaps no qualified women exist for such posts or other senior posts; others point to an informal roster that suggests otherwise. During her United Nations press conference last June, Mrs.”

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  4. “The efforts and accomplishments of women staff members of such multidimensional peace operations as the United Nations Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES), the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) and, especially, the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) are absolutely precious because they were instrumental in both conceiving and implementing creative approaches to gender inclusion policies within the host environment, and in gender mainstreaming within the peace operation. As always, the support of the respective special representatives of the Secretary- General and the United Nations Headquarters figured prominently in their prospects for success or failure.”

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  5. “Most importantly, if the Security Council were to require the mandatory participation of women in all the implementation mechanisms of peace settlement with a view to their sustained participation in the political, economic and social life in the future, it would drastically increase the prospects for sustainable peace. Needless to say, the same approach applies to conflict prevention, mediation and resolution, where women must be adequately represented at all levels of the policy-making and decision-making process. Of special importance in this regard are the contributions made in United Nations field operations.”

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  6. “I wish to recall that it was only after the diabolic record in Bosnia and Herzegovina that rape was recognized as a war crime, and in some instances as a crime against humanity; and that only recently have such crimes as forced pregnancy, detention with intent to impregnate, and sterilization been sanctioned by article 16 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. In the post-conflict period, there is also ample space to support local women's peace-building activities and to strengthen their precarious economic situation - including their access to jobs in weak economies with high unemployment rates - and their access to counselling and human rights expertise, to name a few concerns.”

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  7. “It can request that special mechanisms be established for reporting on all forms of sexual violence and exploitation of women and can provide adequate resources for the institutionalization of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms for peacekeeping personnel. Next, the Security Council can, and should, require that all mission staff receive pre-deployment or early post-deployment training in gender sensitivity and mainstreaming. Also, it can ensure that planning for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration activities, all mine-related activities and public information outreach campaigns takes into account the different needs and different priorities of men and women. Last but not least, the Security Council must do its utmost to ensure the implementation of existing international humanitarian and human rights law.”

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  8. “We have learned that in recent conflicts - from El Salvador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and from East Timor to Sierra Leone - women and girls are overwhelmingly the principal victims of deliberate rape, maiming, abduction and displacement. We are told that women and children constitute an estimated 80 per cent of all internally displaced persons and refugees. We have also learned that women and girls are treated differently from men and boys as soldiers or ex-soldiers, as prisoners or ex-prisoners, and as survivors of rape and mutilation. What can we do? The least we can do is impress upon the Security Council to call upon parties to conflicts to take special measures to protect this vulnerable population. Of course, within its prerogatives of determining mandates for peace operations the Security Council can do much more.”

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  9. “We are waiting to see the rest. Nevertheless, so far precious little serious social science research has focused on the issues addressed by the documents I have mentioned, mainly for a lack of recognition of their importance and, hence, of institutional funding. In this regard, we hail the accomplishments of such pioneers as Ms. Colleen Lowe Morna of South Africa, Ms. Louise Olson of Sweden, Professor Judith Hicks Stiehm of the United States of America, Ms. Maggie Patterson of Canada and Colonel Festus Aboagye of Ghana, to name just a few. The staff members of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations Lessons Learned Unit have also made a contribution to the field and will, it is hoped, continue to do so. So, what have we learned from their research?”

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  10. “We would also like to recognize a growing body of related actions taken by the Security Council, such as on the protection of civilians and children in armed conflicts, humanitarian assistance to refugees and others in conflict situations, post-conflict peace-building and the reintegration of former combatants. In the area of United Nations peace operations, we would like to note the pioneering contributions made by the Windhoek Declaration, the Namibia Plan of Action and Ms. Graca Machel's review document on the impact of armed conflict on children and women. We also wish to highlight the final report of the Beijing + 5 conference (A/S-23/10/Rev.l), the Brahimi report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations (S/2000/809) and the first follow-on implementation report of the Secretary-General (A/55/502).”

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  11. “Likewise, if we were, for example, to direct our attention predominantly or exclusively to the impact of conflict and armed conflict on women and girls alone, we would be doing a disservice to the required comprehensive approach to the overall impact of such conflicts. Although that concern remains highly theoretical for the time being, it is from this fundamental premise that the Croatian delegation would like to share its views during today's debate. At the outset, we would like to recognize the evolving body of policy statements and other contributions made already to today's topic by the Secretary-General, the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, the United Nations Development Fund for Women and various other organizations and bodies within the United Nations system.”

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  12. “Also allow me to join others in welcoming this morning's excellent presentations by Ms. King and Ms. Heyzer. The enthusiastic response from the gallery is proof that they do make a difference. The principles of gender equality and mainstreaming of gender perspective in all dimensions of societal interaction lie at the core of democratic societies. Without active support for these principles, no society, no institution, including the United Nations, can hope to master the policies of inclusion in general and in the area of peace and security in particular. The maintenance of peace and security requires a contribution not by some or half of the world's population, but by all. Equally important, if such a contribution is skewed and reflects either only men's or only women's masculine or feminine perspectives, it remains seriously impaired.”

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  13. “It is my pleasure to thank you, Mr. President, for organizing this open debate on women and peace and security. Indeed, Sir, you should be commended for using your presidency to bring to the spotlight the issue that often lies at the core of the success or failure of domestic, regional and international efforts directed at conflict prevention, peacemaking, peacekeeping and peace-building, including post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction. In View of its participation last May in the adoption of the historic Windhoek Declaration and the Namibia Plan of Action on Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional Peace Support Operations, Namibia's leadership on this issue comes as no surprise. Rather, I see it as a natural extension of your country's well-deserved reputation for fostering gender equality.”

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