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Heyzer

lines on the record: 82
first: 2000-10-24
most recent: 2006-10-26
sittings or episodes: 6
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“For women of all social groups, this opportunity to participate in the rebuilding of the rules cannot be missed. Only then will we have peace under the laws ofjustice.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“and other rights activists must negotiate anew each time to bring women to peace talks or include women's priorities in needs assessments. Even when we have succeeded, we find that resources have not been allocated to meet these priorities. In conclusion, if we want to consolidate peace, we must stop trying to reward those who are most destructive and engage those who advocate peaceful solutions. A famous French philosopher said: "Women are not wrong when they decline to accept the rules laid down for them, since the men make those rules without consulting them". One way of understanding the consolidation of peace is as a massive national effort to remake the rules of governance, justice, security and economic activity so as to eliminate the causes of conflict and distrust.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“It is about obstacles to gender equality in the institutions that shape the ways choices are made, resources allocated, and policies implemented. Three changes are critical to bringing about greater accountability. These include top-level guidelines that ensure that women's rights are a key element of institutional work; incentive systems to reward efforts to address women's needs; and measures to include the issue of gender equality in individual work plans as well as in performance reviews. Although more women have been brought into the military and police forces, this is still a token effort. Appointments of women to the top levels of facilitation teams and peacekeeping missions are still rare. UNIF EM.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“We have learned that, the earlier women are recognized as peace agents and engaged in the process of peace, the more they are seen as legitimate actors. That is why today in Uganda, UNIFEM. is supporting the launch of a peace caravan, with women from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Uganda, to demand that the international community respect resolution 1325 (2000) and include women in the Juba peace talks. Some progress has been made in ensuring the inclusion of women in the political realm. A variety of quota systems have been put in place in Iraq, Burundi, Rwanda and elsewhere and have resulted in record numbers of women in the political sphere. But quotas alone will not ensure effective participation. This is not just a problem of the capacities of women.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“The result is honour crimes, the exchange of women to resolve inter-clan fights, the denial of women's inheritance rights. Justice for women cannot be done on the cheap, and women's rights cannot be bargained away for other political gains. Justice for women has to be featured as an integral and achievable part of any United Nations plan of assistance. Thirdly, peace requires institutional change and stronger accountability systems. Women's engagement in the consolidation of peace requires that the institutions engaged in the rebuilding of the governance, justice, security and economic systems have the will and the capacity to respond to women's needs, and that women take leadership roles in influencing these processes.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“Nicole Kidman, where we met with women who had been raped during the conflict. They feel that they have undergone a double violation as they seek justice, both locally and from the international system, which have promised to help them but have never delivered. If we are serious about ensuring justice, we must do more to provide training for judges and lawyers and provide support for witnesses, medical support, and compensation. Family matters and personal status issues are typically left to customary and traditional legal systems, partly because they are seen as an inexpensive system of resolving conflict, and partly to buy the cooperation of traditional or tribal leaders by giving them control over personal and family matters.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“organized an inter- agency response to set up specialized gender desks in police stations and to provide them with training and hotlines, as well as motorcycles to reach women in remote districts. Secondly, sustainable peace requires real justice for women. To consolidate peace, there must be justice for women in accordance with international human rights standards. That means striking down all laws that continue to discriminate against women, strengthening rule of law organizations to implement them, and empowering women to access those organizations. Too often, in conflict-affected countries, we see that laws on compensation for victims do not include compensation for rape, which is still regarded as a minor crime. I have just returned from Kosovo with our goodwill ambassador, Ms.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“In all of the conflict areas where we have worked, we have witnessed women's willingness to take risks - reaching across borders, organizing to support the kind of dialogue that leads to peacemaking and defying threats to their security. But we cannot rely on the bravery of women; systems must be put in place. In the consolidation of peace, the international community must invest in reforming the security sector so as to ensure the safety of women, particularly where armies or police have been a source of the violence they experience. In Rwanda, after the police said that they could not protect women because they lacked the vehicles for rapid response, we at UNIFEM.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“Two of women's most urgent needs are physical safety and economic security. Efforts to engage women in the public sphere will not succeed if women risk continued violence for taking on public roles, and they cannot be expected to be effective public actors if they have no source of livelihood. What we at UNIFEM. are seeing on the ground - in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia - is that the public space for women in those countries is, in fact, shrinking. Women are becoming assassination targets when they dare defend women's rights, and everywhere there is evidence that violence is brought into homes and communities after conflicts have ended, as young men return with guns, and the social norms that protect women remain broken.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“The question before us today is not only what women can bring to peace consolidation but also what peacebuilding can do to promote women's human rights and gender equality - transforming social structures so that they do not reproduce the exclusion and marginalization that underlie conflict. Women know the costs of war: what it means to be subject to sexual violence designed to destroy their communities, what it means to be displaced, to flee their homes and property, to be excluded from public life and regarded as less than full citizens. The consolidation of peace must include putting an end to impunity for sexual violence and raising the political and economic costs for those who engage in it, ensuring that they are not given the rewards of power and high-profile jobs as part of negotiated peace.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“Peacebuilding requires that all parties with an interest in peace be engaged in negotiating a new social contract, building the institutions of a new society, and re-establishing livelihoods. Women are a crucial resource in this process. Peace agreements, early recovery and post-conflict governance do better when women are involved. Women make a difference in part because they adopt a more inclusive approach to peace and security and address key social and economic issues that provide the foundations of sustainable peace and would otherwise be ignored.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“Ms. Heyzer: Thank you, Sir, for the honour of addressing the Security Council. The consolidation of peace is an uncertain enterprise. It is one thing to agree to a ceasefire, and quite another to move from there to a point at which societies can resolve conflicts through inclusive governance without reverting to armed combat. From our work in over 20 conflict-affected countries, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has learned what is needed to implement resolution 1325 (2000) effectively in the consolidation of peace. Let me mention three points. First, peacebuilding efforts must ensure women's physical and economic security. In peacemaking and peacebuilding, the urgent often drives out the important. The urgent is the need to stop the fighting, but parties to the conflict are not the same as parties to the peace.”
2006-10-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5556 (2006) · source
“Finally, there must be increased outreach to men and boys of a country so that they truly understand that promoting gender equality and gender justice benefits women and men alike. But the focus must be not only on the men and boys of the conflict-affected country. It must also be on United Nations peacekeepers and staff putting an immediate stop to the sexual exploitation of the very women they are supposed to protect. Only then will peace, including peace in the home and in the field, be possible for women after war, and only then will women be able to contribute as full citizens to build a better society for all.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“In moving forward, I would like to suggest some ways to ensure that existing United Nations mechanisms, as well as the Peacebuilding Commission, work on behalf of women as well as men to meet the calls made by resolution 1325 (2000). First, the United Nations needs to adopt a more holistic one-system approach to systematically address the needs and capabilities of women throughout all phases from conflict to peace. This has to be done in a seamless flow. It must ensure that UNIFEM. has a seat at every table. Women and the civil society of a conflict-affected country, including in the rural areas, must be involved at every stage in the assessment and planning of such work.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“But at the heart of the implementation of any real justice in countries recovering from conflict is the demand that human rights violations against women and girls be treated and regarded as crimes by the criminal justice system. Gender justice must not be left to the realm of customary and traditional legal systems. In terms of moving forward, we would all agree that today resolution 1325 (2000) has a growing constituency in countries around the world. However, if that constituency is to move beyond women's rights advocates to make a real difference in the lives of women and girls, it must be embraced by men and boys, emerging countries and Governments, multilateral and regional organizations, and donors.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“Fourthly, in terms of achieving justice for women, peace agreements often fall short of providing any strategy or resources to ensure implementation or measures to sanction non-action, especially with regard to issues affecting women. It is clear from our work on gender justice that justice and peace are closely interlinked. Gender justice can no longer be bargained away as a "soft chip" for realizing other political and operational gains. It must be central to any rule of law organization. But many of the needs of women can be realized very easily if the international community is serious about supporting and resourcing them, focusing on addressing the most pressing needs of women who are victims of war, who are trafficked or infected with HIV/AIDS, who are widowed, refugees or internally displaced.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“But we need to ensure that women remain involved throughout the phases of implementation. Another important element is the composition of the facilitation team, which should have equal representation by men and women and a solid understanding of gender issues. The role and leadership of a Special Representative of the Secretary- General is also critical, as we have seen in the situation in the Great Lakes region. In addition, women in conflict-affected countries have also called on many of our partners to support them in capacity-building and the technical skills needed to participate effectively in peace processes. In Afghanistan, for example, UNIFEM. has supported networks of women lawyers and judges involved in drafting the constitution and has supported women's participation as voters and as candidates.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“That resulted in the formation of an International Women's Commission to support a just and sustainable peace, which was recently endorsed by a presidential decree by the Palestinian National Authority. The Parliament of Israel has also endorsed resolution 1325 (2000) and the participation of women in the peace process. The third lesson is creating an environment to facilitate women's effective participation. While women are advocates for their participation in peace processes, quotas can do much to ensure their greater participation. At the same time, women's effectiveness can be enhanced by the facilitators of these processes, who can play a critical role in bringing local women leaders and women's groups engaged in informal peace processes into the formal peace processes.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“In Kosovo, where we assisted women in developing a common national action plan, women are now asking UNIFEM. to assist them so that they can be at the table where future status issues are being discussed. The process of uniting around common priorities for peace is a vital first step, but we have learned that such international support must be provided in a way that allows women to take full ownership of the priorities established. Our role is to be a trusted partner and honest broker. An example of that role was seen in July this year, when UNIFEM. was asked by Israeli and Palestinian leaders to organize a dialogue among women so as to identify their common priorities for peace.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“But this entails a long-term commitment of support and requires an investment of time, effort and resources to enable women from different sides of a conflict to come together to identify common priorities and goals. In such countries as Afghanistan and Colombia, UNIFEM. and its partners have supported national forms of consultation on women to build these common agendas, and these have been used by our national machineries as a basis for constituency- building for their work in the early stages of rebuilding. In the Sudan, building on a long-term partnership with Sudanese women, UNIFEM, together with the Government of Norway, convened in April a meeting of women from the north and the south to develop a common agenda to be presented to the Oslo Conference.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“They seek full citizenship, social justice and empowerment based on respect for international standards of human rights. If they are to make real progress, they need our commitment and support, as required by resolution 1325 (2000). The second lesson relates to developing a common women's agenda. Our experience in supporting women in peace processes - from the Mano River countries to the Great Lakes, the Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan and Timor-Leste - has shown the importance of developing and implementing a common women's agenda for promoting peace and security that transcends political and ethnic lines and advances gender equality.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“The fact that peace agreements are silent on critical issues affecting the lives of women and girls means that the human rights of half of the population are ignored, undermining the foundations of societies emerging from conflict that are aspiring to establish democracy and the rule of law. In resolution 1325 (2000), the Security Council spoke with one voice in emphasizing the need to mainstream gender justice and gender equality in all peace processes. Resolution 1325 (2000) has been the bedrock of support for the efforts of women to participate in peace processes and the building of institutions and to insist that the injustices they have suffered in conflict be addressed. The overriding goal for women is social transformation, not their reintegration into a system in which they are marginalized.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“Our work has generated some very important lessons that I would like to share today. The first lesson relates to the issue of creating a more inclusive society. Peace processes, if they are to be effective, need to take into account women's experiences and capabilities. Failure to do so leads to a justice deficit for women and girls and to a framework for peace and security that fails to address their human rights and socio-economic conditions. The range of issues covered in peace agreements and the process of implementation are then limited to men's experiences of conflict, men's expectations for peacebuilding and men trying to forgive men for crimes against women.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) has worked in over 20 conflict- affected countries to help bring women to the peace table and strengthen their role in peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction. Our work has focused on supporting women's rights and inclusion in constitutional, legal-reform and institution-building processes, as well as on strengthening women's leadership and participation in decision-making. We have seen that women can foster ties among opposing factions across political and ethnic lines so as to generate genuine dialogue. They can bring a different perspective to peace negotiations, raising critical issues - from land rights to rape babies - that might otherwise be overlooked. And they can build a foundation to sustain peace.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“Ms. Heyzer: I would like to thank you, Mr. President, and the other members of the Security Council for having given me the honour of addressing the Council on the important issue of women's participation in peace processes, on the fifth anniversary of resolution 1325 (2000). The participation of women in all aspects of peace processes and attention to the needs and priorities of women are not simply gender-equality goals. They are crucial to just and sustainable peace. Women know the cost of war, what it means to be displaced, to be excluded from public life and to be regarded as less than full citizens. They know the realities on the ground and what needs to be done to address the injustices of war and prevent a relapse into conflict. They can be, and must be, part of the lasting peace.”
2005-10-27 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5294 (2005) · source
“Women from war-torn societies across the world are now waiting for us to fully address the recommendations of resolution 1325 (2000) in ways that can make real differences in their everyday lives. We cannot allow another decade to pass before that happens.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) is a good example of how women have been able to bring issues of protection and their role in peacekeeping to the attention of the Security Council. What is needed now is a serious strategy and comprehensive implementation through a stronger and more coherent gender architecture within the United Nations system and through partnerships with local organizations that address current challenges and promote strategies that have worked. It has taken more than two decades for women's voices to be seriously heard, a decade to establish the norms and legal frameworks for gender justice needed to eliminate violence against women and to empower women economically and politically.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“For post-crisis situations, the United Nations should have a central mechanism to focus on coordinated assistance for gender justice. Together with the United Nations Development Programme and the International Legal Assistance Consortium, UNIFEM. will be following up on some of the recommendations of the Gender Justice Conference, including through the Partners for Gender Justice Initiative. However, further steps will require the involvement of the United Nations system as a whole, as well as Member States, regional organizations and civil society. Gender justice will not be achieved unless we address the current institutional deficit within the United Nations regarding gender.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Means must be developed to ensure the responsibility and accountability of United Nations peacekeeping personnel, who serve as role models to the local communities, for proper behaviour towards women. Comprehensive policies and procedures must be established to prevent and punish trafficking, sexual exploitation and abuse. We have to keep our own house in order if we expect others to do the same. Thirdly, gender justice must be a priority within the United Nations system, including United Nations peace operations, and institutional arrangements must be strengthened to accelerate progress. We still lack the adequate organizational structures, staffing, resources and coordination needed to achieve gender justice.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Peace operations should have adequate numbers of gender-justice specialist staff in all offices and should seriously draw on the specialized gender expertise available from the United Nations funds and programmes operating on the ground, including UNIFEM. United Nations bodies must also collaborate more closely and more frequently on gender justice objectives with local, professional and academic groups engaged in training women judges and lawyers, and with networks of women and men to help change attitudes and ensure the full participation of women in the post-crisis phase. Secondly, United Nations peacekeeping personnel have a special obligation not to violate the trust that women and girls place in them. Unfortunately, serious misconduct has been identified. Gender justice must be extended to our international guardians.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“We are at a historical crossroads where the opportunity now exists to make the rule of law and the perspective of women central to peace processes. As noted in the Secretary-General's report, much has been achieved since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), but much remains to be done. I would like to draw the Council's attention to three areas in particular that were recently highlighted at the Conference on Gender Justice in Post-Conflict Situations. First, the participation of women and the incorporation of gender dimensions must be increased in all stages of the conceptualization, planning and implementation of United Nations peace operations.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“It is to be found in legal reforms that ensure equality in marriage and family relations, in the ownership of property and in equal access to secure employment. It depends on women being supported to participate in elections as voters and in ensuring their rightful representation in Government. With those fundamental building blocks in place, not only will all women be assured of redress for violence, but the prospect of reducing and eventually eliminating gender-based violence finally comes into view. The wholesale damage to lives and communities that is inflicted by the kind of violence that we have seen can never be undone, so our sights must be set not only on redress in the immediate sense, but also on the essential concern of cutting violence off at its roots.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Our support has also led to the passage of the inheritance bill, which guarantees women and girls the right to inherit property, and will go a long way in helping the agricultural sector. In the Great Lakes region, we assisted the office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General as well as women's organizations in preparing for the Great Lakes Regional Women's Meeting. The calls issued at that Meeting must now be seriously attended to at the meeting of heads of State and Government of the region. We must never allow the opportunity that post- conflict reconstruction presents for establishing the rule of law to be overlooked. The real cure for violence against women lies in constitutions with strong and clear guarantees of gender equality.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“It requires justice to address violations of human rights and war crimes so that women can move beyond their trauma and begin to construct new lives for themselves. It requires economic and social justice to address political, economic and social inequalities that frequently underlie violence and conflict. Women have been the victims of war; women must now be part of the solutions for peace. In our work on gender justice, we have been supporting all of those dimensions. For example, in Afghanistan we have supported gender and rights training, the involvement of women in the drafting of laws and their participation in elections. In Rwanda, our support for women leaders has helped to promote their role in Government and today the country has the highest percentage worldwide of women judges and women in Parliament.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Those initiatives hold the key to lives free of Violence for all women, but they need to be scaled up and adequately resourced to become standard practice in crisis and post-crisis situations. At the end of the day, the root causes of violence must be addressed by enforcing women's rights and eliminating all forms of discrimination against women. Gender justice requires the integration of gender perspectives within every dimension of justice and the participation of women in shaping justice frameworks and rule of law institutions in ways that promote their human rights, legal equality and inclusion. It requires legal justice to address discriminatory laws against women, such as inheritance laws which prevent women from owning property.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Coordinated community-level interventions must bring together men, local Government, traditional leaders, medical and legal professionals, and the leaders of women's organizations so that the framework of international and national laws can be firmly connected to women's lived realities. We also know that violence must be dealt with at multiple levels and in multiple sectors of society simultaneously, and that the root causes of violence must be addressed, including women's poor economic, social and political status. Through the United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women, administered by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), initiatives have been taken in all of those areas.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Great strides have been made in setting norms, standards and legal frameworks, and the challenge now is to ensure the implementation of the very good laws that many countries have already developed, working closely with and providing the necessary support for national players. Mechanisms for enforcing rights and redressing violations are critical to accountability and justice. Legal reforms must be accompanied by the training and reform of the criminal justice system, which is not very sensitive to the needs of women victims. Some of the changes that have been made to the administration of justice - through the creation of specialized police stations, the training of police forces as a whole and partnerships with women's groups - must be instituted as broadly as possible.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Within the human rights framework, violence against women is recognized as a manifestation of deeply-rooted historical patterns of discrimination against women and of systemic gender inequalities. Seen in its true light, gender-based violence in times of conflict is part of the continuum of violence that runs through women's lives, from times of peace to times of war. It only deepens with war. In all cases, its origins lie in inequality. Gender inequality is, in fact, a seed that, in times of conflict, bears the bitter fruit of systematic campaigns to destroy the lives of women, families and communities. The good news is that we now know so much about effective measures to eliminate violence against women.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“What ultimately must we do to achieve justice and accountability for victims of gender-based violence? Impunity for gender crimes continues to prevail in post-conflict societies and will likely never be completely eliminated, given the shortcomings of international and national justice in dealing with sexual crimes. However, justice and accountability are critical to the healing and peace process. As we work towards ending impunity, it is important to ensure that those responsible for crimes against women are not rewarded with State power and high-profile jobs as a result of negotiated peace agreements. It is important to include women at the peace table and in the process of reconstruction. It is important to address the nature and root causes of violence against women.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“Ms. Heyzer: I thank you, Sir, for the honour of addressing the Council on the important issue of women, peace and security, focusing on gender-based violence. In times of conflict, violence against women becomes more than personal devastation; it becomes - as we have seen all too painfully in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Bosnia and today in Darfur - a means for the wholesale destruction of communities and peoples. The international community is now fully aware that rape and other forms of violence against women are systematically used as a weapon of war. And in many wars and conflicts, rape has been used as a way of humiliating the men of the other side, infecting women with HIV/ AIDS, forcing them into sexual slavery and destroying women's ability to revitalize their communities.”
2004-10-28 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5066Resumption1 (2004) · source
“We look forward to a long-term partnership with the members of the Security Council, so that implementation will make the kind of transformation necessary to ensure peace and security in women's lives.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“is a small fund, but we have invested $14 million in the area of women, peace and security. This investment has gone into four areas of work. One is early warning and prevention, using women's groups on the ground to help us. The second area is protection and assistance, in strong partnership with different agencies such as the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, UNICEF and women's groups. The third and largest area of women's work and the work of UNIFEM. has been in the area of peace-building, getting women from the ground and communities to the peace table. The fourth is gender justice, especially in post-conflict peace-building. As we move forward, we all realize that this area is actually the first step.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The strength of the Women's Fund is in building women's capacity and the different kinds of leadership that will bring women to the peace table. In Afghanistan, UNIFEM. was very central to pulling together an agenda on women that was discussed at the Loya Jirga. I would like to stress the link between the Secretary-General's report and the independent assessment. There is a division of labour between Ms. King and the work of UNIFEM. All of us participate in Ms. King's inter-agency task force. The division of labour is such that the independent expert assessment captures the voices of women at the ground level, and also the work in new areas that would not be captured by a desk review. That is the connection, but we hope both studies will become part of the Secretary- General's report. I would like to end by saying UNIFEM.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The women's movement has celebrated the kind of thoughtfulness and receptivity the Security Council has given to this whole area of work. I will be in touch with them to convey the messages discussed here. We look forward to many of the initiatives discussed by Chile and Colombia on small arms. I also would like to share with you the fact that the Minister for Women's Affairs from Afghanistan will be here tomorrow to visit us, and there will be a signing of a memorandum of understanding with UNIFEM. The leadership of Afghan women shows strongly how the United Nations system has been working together. A specific strength of UNIFEM. is working with women to prepare them for the peace table and train them to participate in the reconstruction of their countries. This is true from the Congo to the Manu River.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Therefore, a very good example has been in East Timor, where we both participated in the training of women, and got women elected on a platform to deal with violence against women, and also of support to the police in order to protect women. So we were extremely pleased with that kind of work at the ground level. This discussion has been an excellent basis for the preparation of our October session, and the report of the Secretary-General and the independent assessments will touch on many new areas of action that have been identified. There is a huge expectation. As many Council members have noted, Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) is a living document, something women will pay attention to and build upon.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“Ms. Heyzer: First of all, I would like to say a very big thank you, Mr. President, for your leadership in this area, and also a big thank you to all members of the Security Council. We appreciate all the comments that you have made on the whole area of women, peace and security, and all the support that you have given me for my work at the ground level. We definitely welcome the opportunity to strengthen our collaboration, especially at the field level. In this regard, I would like to acknowledge the progress that has been made, especially in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) on the ground. In fact, our experience has been that DPKO, in the areas where it has gender advisors, has been able to leverage the support of women by drawing on the strength of UNIFEM.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589Resumption1 (2002) · source
“The protection needs will be identified if that concept is incorporated. There has to be greater dialogue with women on the ground. Is it working or not? What are some of the good lessons that have been learned in terms of collaboration? What are some of the gaps that we still need to address? What about the whole need to address women's organizations and quick-impact projects, and to support and promote the participation of women in peace-building? There is much that we have been able to do in partnership with civil society, but at the same time there is much to be done and a long way to go. We hope that the findings of the two studies will be a step towards making sure that we reach our journey.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“The Council could also respond to the gaps that have been identified by this report. Also, new actors have emerged, such as the financial and regional organizations. We also hope that the Council will make sure that this topic - women, peace and security - will become a regular item on its agenda. What are some of the ideas that women on the ground have raised that could be helpful in terms of peacekeeping operations to protect women and ensure their participation in the peace process? One of the ideas that have come up is to dedicate civilian policing units. This has worked in Kosovo and in East Timor. We can build up on good practices that have worked at the ground level and consider how to disseminate them. Secondly, there is the concept of operation and mandate. We have to have a more gender-sensitive approach.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“Ms. Heyzer: There were a number of comments to the effect that Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) is the only resolution having a whole constituency. I would like to say that this constituency is our partner to make things happen on the ground. What we have tried to do is to make sure that they have a voice and that they can be visible in the implementation process. What are some of things the Council can do to make sure that this kind of implementation makes a difference at the level of women's lives? A number of recommendations and findings will be coming out. One of these ideas is that the Council may want to look at and map out some of the responsibilities of the various actors of the United Nations system through the adoption of another resolution.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“The fact that we helped the training of women in East Timor has allowed them to make sure that, in the restructuring of the constitution, women's voices are there, and that there is in fact realignment because there is a new opportunity to ensure that the new constitution aligns itself with some of the norms and standards set by the United Nations, including the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). There are many ways in which women have made a difference. They have made a difference because they know that that is the only way in which they can have a future for themselves and their children.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source