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Khaleel

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2022-03-08
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2022-03-08
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  1. “A third of the ministerial posts in the current Cabinet are held by women. For the first time, we have female Supreme Court justices and a woman leader for both the Judicial Services Commission and the Human Rights Commission. In a historic first, in April last year we elected women to one-third of the local council seats. Those changes will strengthen women’s voices in our decision-making process and help us ensure more responsive and inclusive Government policies. We believe that empowered women empower society. Only through the full and meaningful participation of women in all facets of decision-making and implementation can we ensure that we can build an enduring, peaceful society and advance the women and peace and security agenda.”

    2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source

  2. “Without the adequate representation of women in decision-making processes, we risk creating laws, policies, budgets and conflict responses that fail to adequately respond to the needs of almost half the world’s population. Research demonstrates, and our experience has confirmed at first- hand, that women’s voices in political decision-making, communities, parliaments and peace negotiations are essential to supporting and sustaining prosperous and peaceful societies. The Maldives has always been committed to promoting women’s empowerment. The Administration of President Solih places high importance on having women in decision-making and executive positions. We have taken action to that end by adopting legislation to allocate 33 per cent of council seats to women in local elections.”

    2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source

  3. “We should work to strengthen partnerships with local stakeholders across all levels, especially women’s groups, to more quickly identify and better understand the challenges women face on the ground and their underlying causes. We should also work to find ways to better integrate international partners and public and private partners into those various settings so as to lay the foundation for enduring peace and security. Some of the areas where we believe partnerships can prove useful include the timely and robust collection of data on women’s economic participation in conflict settings. That will help us to better understand the challenges women face. To ensure action on the ground that is responsive to women, we need the full, equal and meaningful participation of women in leadership roles.”

    2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source

  4. “Over the past two years, the coronavirus disease pandemic and other humanitarian crises have exacerbated existing gender gaps, often unravelling decades of progress made towards gender equality. Clearly women have borne the brunt of the economic fallout from the pandemic. In response, the Maldives provided an income support allowance to workers who lost their jobs, placing particular emphasis on those women who worked in the informal sector and lacked formal contracts. However, we know that more can be done. As we emerge from seemingly the worst of the pandemic, we can redesign our recovery policies to advance gender inclusivity.”

    2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source

  5. “Although some extreme events are unpredictable, we know that climate change will continue to increase our risk of storms, flooding and water and food insecurity. Those situations create environments in which women are marginalized, but also where terrorism and other threats to security can fester. For that reason, the Maldives and other small islands have been sounding the alarm about the fact that addressing climate change is fundamental in building a peaceful society. As Secretary-General Guterres rightly stated last year, climate change is an aggravating factor for instability, conflict and terrorism. Therefore, we must take urgent action to address that threat multiplier and driver of conflict. It is not just in conflict situations where we must better focus on women, but in all spheres.”

    2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source

  6. “There remains much to be done. The Maldives fully ascribes to the notion that women’s inclusion and participation are fundamental to our efforts to build a durable, peaceful society. Furthermore, we recognize that when conflicts, disasters and other crises strike, our responses in the immediate aftermath and in the process of long-term recovery must proceed in a manner that pays particular attention to and places focus on the situation and needs of women and their full and meaningful inclusion in decision-making. In a small country like ours, natural disasters can wipe away decades of development gains in the blink of an eye. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was devastating for the Maldives and, in that awful experience, we recognized that women were on the front lines, often bearing the heaviest burden in its aftermath.”

    2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source

  7. “I would like to thank the United Arab Emirates for convening this timely debate on advancing the women and peace and security agenda today, on International Women’s Day. I would also like to thank our briefers for their invaluable insights. Conflicts have deep and far-reaching consequences for all of society. However, women in particular lose access to employment opportunities, natural resources, basic legal protections and essential needs, such as food, water, health care and education. We are therefore strongly encouraged by the commitment of the United Arab Emirates presidency to advancing the women and peace and security agenda. Since the adoption of resolution 1325 (2000), the Council has adopted nine resolutions that reflect significant collective advancement on the issue. However, let us not become complacent.”

    2022-03-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8989 (2022) · source