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2000-07-17
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  1. “My delegation requests the Secretary-General and the Security Council to urge Member States to ensure that training in human rights and peacekeeping, peacemaking and peace-building includes everyone - civilians, soldiers, the police, civil society, the women themselves and peacekeeping personnel. Those who commit crimes against women, including the peacekeeping personnel, should be brought to book. Let us heed the women's cry for an equal opportunity to voice their ideas in official peace negotiations. And let us act now.”

    2000-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption2 (2000) · source

  2. “In the long term however, the only way to truly ensure the protection and security of women and girls is to prevent wars and armed conflicts from taking place. Major root causes of most of the recent wars and armed conflicts have included poverty and lack of respect for human rights. These ills must be addressed first. My delegation recalls that, at the end of the Millennium Summit, world leaders pledged to eradicate poverty and make the right to development a reality for everyone. This means promoting equality between men and women in decision-making. This further means the involvement and full participation of women in all issues, including peacekeeping, peacemaking and peace-building, as well as at the negotiating table, from the grassroots level to the decision-making levels.”

    2000-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption2 (2000) · source

  3. “Beyond its emergency relief responsibilities, the United Nations has increasingly become involved in efforts aimed at peacekeeping, peace-making and peace-building. It is gratifying to note that the Security Council, even though it has taken five decades to do so, has now recognized the importance of women's role and of their increased participation in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peace-building. However, there is still a lot more that needs to be done. Appropriate solutions cannot be achieved if women are left out of the decision-making machinery. You are aware, Mr. President, that women continue to be under-represented in all peacekeeping, peace- making and peace-building efforts, including in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in the United Nations. This should not be allowed to continue.”

    2000-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption2 (2000) · source

  4. “My Government applauds and thanks the Secretary-General, the United Nations bodies and agencies, non-governmental organizations, international agencies and donor countries for the efforts they have made to protect and secure peace and security for women and girls. Various international legal instruments, particularly the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the corresponding Optional Protocols, have been adopted by the General Assembly. International Criminal Tribunals have been established for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and these have made great strides to help end impunity for crimes against women and girls. Forms of sexual violence are now included as a war crime in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.”

    2000-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption2 (2000) · source

  5. “Rape and sexual violence perpetrated by the armed forces, whether governmental or other actors, including in some instances peacekeeping personnel, increases the potential for spreading HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. No wonder most of the HIV/AIDS victims in the developing countries are women and girls. HIV/AIDS leaves millions of children orphaned and, in most cases, the responsibility to care for them rests largely on the shoulders of older people. All of these harmful and widespread threats to women and girls have long-term consequences for durable peace, security and development. The sad thing is that in most instances the women do not know why the wars and armed conflicts erupt, owing to the fact that they are either under-represented or not represented at all at the decision-making levels.”

    2000-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption2 (2000) · source

  6. “Currently, most of the wars and conflicts take place in developing countries, where most of the population lives in rural areas. Often, these conflicts are within countries, rather than across borders. Women and children constitute a disproportionate number of the affected populations and, therefore, suffer the brunt of violence and brutality. Armed conflict affects women and girls differently from men and boys. During armed conflict, not only are women and girls killed, maimed, abducted, separated from their loved ones, subjected to starvation, malnutrition and forced displacement, but they are also continually threatened with rape, domestic violence, sexual exploitation and slavery, trafficking, sexual humiliation and mutilation.”

    2000-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption2 (2000) · source

  7. “Those of us who are not in the Security Council do not get an opportunity to congratulate a delegation for assuming the presidency of the Council, so it gives me particular pleasure this morning to congratulate you, Mr. President, and I am most grateful that during your presidency you have taken the initiative to hold this open session on women and peace and security. My Government attaches great importance to the protection and security of women and girls, both in situations of armed conflict and in peace. Wars and armed conflict bring untold suffering and misery to communities and nations, for they entail devastating and horrific levels of violence and brutality, employing any possible means. Today's wars and conflicts make little distinction between soldiers and civilians and between adults and children.”

    2000-10-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208Resumption2 (2000) · source

  8. “Since it is clear that a drug to cure AIDS or a vaccine is in the remote future, let us in the meantime allow new strategies to come into play. Let us for a change invest in cultural experts to look at the root causes of behavioural resistance to outdated strategies. In conclusion, let me say that my country, Malawi, also contributes peacekeepers. And Malawi has always and will continue to ensure that adequate training is given to all of our people in the field. Actually, in my country such programmes are ongoing in the army and in the police, because we realize that people need to know these things before they take on new assignments.”

    2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source

  9. “Perhaps it is now time to let experts in culture, instead of medical personnel, carry out in-depth research into how societies can avoid being affected by the HIV virus. For instance, it was only last week that a possible link was revealed between circumcised males and low rates of AIDS infection. Apparently, according to the report, medical personnel have suspected this connection for at least a decade, but it was made public only last week. The ten-year delay in widely disseminating this information is hard to understand. It is clear to me that this problem was being looked at only from a medical point of View, and not from a cultural one. However, the practice of circumcision, or the lack of such a practice, is a cultural matter and often not a subject of public discussion. That is why strategies must change.”

    2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source

  10. “It is not just violence and instability; AIDS must have certain other characteristics that have promoted its wide diffusion. The Durban conference has left us with little or no hope that there might be a cure or vaccine any time soon. My delegation wishes therefore to call for the adoption of new strategies. There is a need to re- evaluate past strategies, to find out how and why they have failed. For instance, why is that up until now no one has died of AIDS in much of sub-Saharan Africa? What is it in the African culture that makes it difficult to accept that someone has died of AIDS? AIDS researchers who go to such funerals in Africa always report that the person has died of tuberculosis, meningitis, pneumonia. No one mentions AIDS at all. This is a cultural perspective.”

    2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source

  11. “Perhaps, Sir, you noticed this in the tenth preambular paragraph of the draft resolution, which I sawjust this morning: "Farther recognizing that the HIV/AIDS pandemic is also exacerbated by conditions of violence and instability, which increase the risk of exposure to the disease through large movements of people". You will have noted that this statement was put in this draft resolution in good faith, but I hope that, despite having put it in there, we will not lose sight of the fact that the most severely affected countries - Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa - have been stable countries. There has not been any conflict in these countries for the past decade or two - and, for some of these countries, since their independence. We have to remember this.”

    2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source

  12. “This may sound strange, but Malawi may not be alone in experiencing a low population growth rate due to AIDS. Yesterday The New York Times quoted the South African Minister of Welfare and Population Development to the effect that if the AIDS trend goes unabated, South Africa could eventually have a white majority. This is serious business. The Malawi delegation believed that the Security Council discussions in January might produce fresh ideas for combating AIDS, because it should have been clear to all involved that the strategies that had theretofore been adopted to combat HIV infection had failed. Unfortunately, this was not to be. What emerged was a reinforcement of the same old strategies, with perhaps a little more vigour this time around.”

    2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source

  13. “That was what experts had been predicting for the 19905. However, when the results were announced, we learned that there were only 9.6 million Malawians. The population growth rate, which had been believed to be more than 3 per cent per year, had actually declined to 1.9 per cent per year. It became obvious that AIDS had given Malawi a death sentence. I do not want to be misunderstood. I consider myself well informed regarding the benefits of low population growth rates, particularly in the developing countries. With the current adverse economic trends in most of those countries, one would be perfectly happy with a 1.9 per cent population growth rate if the rate were due to informed family planning. Unfortunately, this one was not.”

    2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source

  14. “If this was perhaps a tall order, sub-Saharan Africa was at least expecting to hear that the so-called cocktail drugs which have prolonged the lives of infected individuals in developed countries would be made available to the least developed countries at prices which they could afford. But sad to say, even that was not forthcoming from the Durban Conference. I arrived at the United Nations in January of this year, when the issue of AIDS was at the forefront of discussions in the Security Council. At that time, I said to myself that this was very good, because back where I come from, I did not know of a single family that had not been affected by AIDS. Back there, there is a real decline in population growth. For instance, when the national census was done in my country in 1998, we all expected the population to be around 12 million.”

    2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source

  15. “If I had had my way, I would have changed that to read: "The spread of AIDS has had a uniquely devastating impact on society" - because that is what is happening in sub-Saharan African today. Having said that, let me now go to my prepared text. At the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, last week, the whole world - particularly those parts of the world where the HIV/AIDS situation is very bad - was waiting for good news. The hope was that since the previous International AIDS Conference had come up with what appeared to be promising and consoling research results, this year's Conference would be an improvement over the previous one. The world expected to hear that a vaccine would be ready soon, or that perhaps a cure was in the making.”

    2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source

  16. “Let me begin by thanking you, Mr. President, for convening this open meeting of the Security Council today and for attending it personally. I wish also to thank the representative of the United States, Ambassador Holbrooke, for bringing the topic of AIDS to the forefront of discussions here at the United Nations. Let me also take this opportunity to thank the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Dr. Peter Piot, for his statement and in particular for highlighting the case of Malawi. He could have gone on to mention the devastation AIDS has wrought on Malawian society. That brings me to a special section of the draft resolution, which states that the spread of HIV/AIDS can have a uniquely devastating impact on all sectors and levels of society.”

    2000-07-17 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4172 (2000) · source