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“It reveals the impact of armed conflict on women and girls at every stage and highlights the corrosive and pervasive violence against women and girls that still exists, and often persists after the conflict, as domestic violence and trafficking. It spells out the role of women, and the obstacles they face in contributing to all aspects of sustainable peace. It also sets out concrete gender perspectives at every phase of conflict and peace-building. If Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) is a blueprint for the integration of a gender perspective in peace and security, then the study is a tool from which practical recommendations can be drawn. Its main conclusion is that sustainable peace and lasting security cannot be achieved without women's empowerment and full involvement.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“How is this particular study unique? Its main strength is that it is based on input from all United Nations entities participating in the Inter-agency Task Force on Women, Peace and Security. It benefits from a coordinated wealth of wisdom and experience of the United Nations system, both at Headquarters and in the field as well as from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Non-Governmental Group (NGO) Working Group on Women, Peace and Security, and from the distinguished former Special Representatives of the Secretary-General (SRSG), scholars, practitioners and women grass-roots leaders. The study is unique as it provides the first systematic overview of gender-related activities in the peace and security field.”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“Ms. King: It is a great pleasure and honour for me to address this open debate of the Security Council on conflict, peacekeeping and gender and to present some findings, challenges and recommendations from the Secretary-General's study on women, peace and security mandated by the historic Security Council resolution 1325 (2000). I would like to pay special tribute to the President of the Security Council for taking the initiative to organize this debate. The linkage between gender and peace is not new. The Mexico First World Conference on Women - Equality, Development and Peace in 1975, through the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies in 1985, the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 and the Windhoek Declaration and Plan of Action in 2000 are all historic milestones on our way to Security Council resolution 1325 (2000).”
2002-07-25 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4589 (2002) · source
“May this discussion and the decisions that follow be those in which we demonstrate that, at least in the area of women and peace and security, this is one lesson that we have learned and intend to put into action.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“Gender equality issues are absolutely essential to the success of any peace operation. We cannot exclude half the world's resources from participating in peace. The fundamental human right to have and to enjoy equality is a given. It was emphasized by the Beijing Conference and reaffirmed again in the Beijing +5 outcome document and even more so at the Millennium Declaration. There can be no peace without gender equality and no development without both peace and equality. Without the equal and fair participation of women in decision-making positions in the United Nations and also in Member States, as well as in this central organ of the United Nations, we will never achieve the vision outlined in the United Nations Charter.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“The code of conduct for peacekeepers should be regularly updated and where there are infringements, there should be a continuation of apprehension and discipline. Should it be decided to appoint a new assistant secretary-general in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, as proposed in the Panel's report, strong consideration should be given to appointing a woman to one of the three assistant secretary-general posts in the Department. In closing, may I recall the main finding of the joint study made by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Division for the Advancement of Women. It was that the most important lesson learned is that lessons are not always learned. Lessons from Namibia and South Africa had little effect on Cambodia or Bosnia Herzegovina, for example.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“Greater attention must be paid to ensuring the appointment of women as special representatives, in accordance with the Brahimi report and the call by women heads of State and Government of 5 September. The Council may wish to ensure that all the reports that it receives on missions contain information and data on the extent to which a gender perspective has been introduced and on the number and level of women working in the various missions. Working with the agencies on the ground, the political and development wings of the mission should organize the mobilization of community groups, especially women's groups, and expand the pool of skills needed to sustain the peace process. A roster of such groups could be kept by DPKO, in collaboration with regional bodies and agencies.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“The mandate of the mission and the guidelines for special representatives must clearly indicate that gender considerations must be integrated into the mission's goals and the head of mission be accountable. Each mission should have a plan for incorporating gender issues into all aspects of the mission's work. There should be a gender unit, adequately staffed and resourced to provide the necessary backstopping on the mission site, and one in DPKO for overall oversight. I am pleased to state that DPKO has established two such units- one in East Timor and one in Kosovo - and gender focal points in Sierra Leone and Western Sahara. All sectors of the transition or rebuilding process should take gender issues into account.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“These entities are all members of the Administrative Committee on Coordination's Inter- Agency Committee on Women and Gender Equality, which I chair. We have lately formed a Task Force on Women and Peace and Security to strengthen collaboration on this critical issue. This brings me to our vision for the future. The basic blueprint appears in the Beijing Platform for Action, the Beijing + 5 outcome document, the Windhoek Declaration and the Namibia Plan of Action. It also appears in the many powerful statements from women's groups that we heard yesterday in the Council's Arria-formula meeting. The planning of any mission must include gender equality aspects.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) should also be credited with pioneering work at the national and grass-roots levels. Good practices have been identified, studied and published, including the study by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, "Women and Post-Conflict Reconstruction". The exchange of information on these practices has enabled the United Nations system to encourage States engaged in rehabilitation to work in partnership with and sustain women's groups and civil society engaged in these essential but often unrecognized activities. Capacity-building for leadership and governance led by UNDP and UNIFEM has greatly facilitated women's ability to play constructive roles.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“Many aspects of these informal activities have been encouraged, supported financially and documented by the United Nations and its agencies. In this connection, in addition to the work of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, the Department of Political Affairs, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Department for Disarmament Affairs should be mentioned. Special mention should also be made of the work of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“Grass-roots women's organizations in several countries have sponsored peace education; encouraged child soldiers to lay down arms; organized groups advocating peace across party and ethnic lines; organized campaigns against small arms, such as the Organization of African Unity (OAU) African Women's Committee on peace and development; influenced repatriation processes and established services for returning exiles, such as in Guatemala; contributed to ending conflict; negotiated the release of hostages; and established legal support groups to get recognition for women's rights to land and household property which may have been in the name of a spouse killed or "disappeared" in a conflict. Women at the local level are a rich resource waiting to be systematically tapped by the international community.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“There is abundant evidence to show that even when having to flee to safety with their families or protecting them in refugee or displaced- persons camps, women take on a number of peace- building activities. Women are active at both formal and informal levels. With few exceptions, women are not present in formal peace negotiations. However, women have been part of these negotiations, as we saw in the field in Burundi, and in Guatemala and South Africa. Somali women helped to bring the clan leaders back into the negotiations at one stage and were permitted to join the negotiations as observers. Most of the activities, however, take place at the informal level.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“The study also shows that mixed teams of women and men, a significant proportion of women team leaders, women special representatives or heads of mission, or a conscious effort by a special representative to seek the best staff, whether women or men, has a positive influence on the outcome. Women also respond by participating in the troop-contributing countries' military and civilian police contingents. The Department of Peacekeeping Operations has made strenuous efforts to encourage Member States to send women on missions, on the basis of equity, as their presence can assist in defusing potentially tense situations. Much more should be done in order to encourage women to enter this service. What do this and other studies tell us about what local women do?”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“Women are active negotiators and able to see more clearly issues that affect women differently than men. Women's participation in all aspects of a mission can help to break down stereotypes held by women in many local communities, especially where women peacekeepers serve in a broad spectrum of the activities of a mission. This has had a spin-off effect on the participation of local women in decision-making positions. Women political monitors are just as willing and capable of serving in dangerous or isolated areas as men, and do so just as effectively.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“In other words, women's participation in United Nations missions empowers local women and may inspire them to organize for the achievement of a democratic society. Women's participation has the capacity to expand the debate a little further so that it may encompass more diverse subjects, including those that may be more relevant to women and children. Women are frequently less hierarchical in dealing with local communities and listen more, thereby having better insights into the root causes of conflict. Local women are more likely to confide in women peacekeepers on such matters as rape and other sexual violence. The presence of a critical mass of women appears to foster confidence and trust among the local population, and this is critical to successful operations, such as in El Salvador.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“The study looks at five peace operations, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, El Salvador, Namibia and South Africa. It answers the sceptics by giving objective and empirical findings on what women staff do in missions; whether and how they influence the outcomes; and how their participating equally with men can improve the efficiency of United Nations peacekeeping. The Windhoek Declaration and the Namibia Plan of Action were informed by these findings. Exactly what does this study tell us? It shows unequivocally that when there is a critical mass of women in a mission - at least 30 per cent - local women are more easily mobilized to join peace committees. This occurred in South Africa, El Salvador and Namibia, where women actively promoted voter education and the rights of individual women to vote.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“What is important is that they must be part of all stages of the peace negotiations, in planning for the future, in rebuilding and in crafting preventive strategies to avoid conflict. Often, those of us who have seen the value of women's participation in peace operations at first hand are challenged by the sceptics to present empirical rather than anecdotal findings. In this connection, I am pleased to report on the results of a joint three-year effort of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), my office and the Division for the Advancement of Women of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, a study that was supported by the generous funding of several Member States. This study, "Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional Peace Operations" has just been finalized.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“He has stressed that more and more non-State actors are protagonists in armed conflict; even children become involved. The proliferation of small arms and the ease with which they can be acquired, clearly shown in the Department for Disarmament Affairs and Department of Public Information video documentary "Armed to the Teeth", has also added a new dimension. The socio-economic fabric of a country has now to be the major focus of attention. Societal dynamics thus become a key guide to finding entry points into resolving disputes. Groups within each society, and especially women's groups, non-governmental, religious and other groups, have a major role to play. Whether these groups were formed before the conflict or during it is not important.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“There are three broad areas to be considered in the context of today's discussion: how armed conflict affects women; how women actually respond to conflict, the peace process and post-conflict reconstruction; and how we plan strategically for a future in which women are equal partners with men in enhancing our effectiveness in peace operations. Today I would like to concentrate on the two latter points, drawing on my experience as Chief of Mission in the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA). What do women actually do in conflict situations, and how do they respond? The Secretary-General has repeatedly emphasized the changing nature of war. He has noted that modern warfare is increasingly conducted within, rather than between, States, and that the Security Council is now called on to deal with such conflicts.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“They include the Council's decision to take a thematic approach to its work; the recognition that the Council gave - under the chair of Bangladesh - on International Women's Day, 8 March, to women as actors in the peace process; the discussion on the situation of women in Afghanistan, which took place in April, led by the representative of Canada; and the Council's resolution 1314 (2000) of 11 August. The timeliness of this discussion is also significant. The Secretary-General has just returned from an area where he undoubtedly had an opportunity to see at first hand the role women and men should play in their societies to bring about peace and to rebuild those societies. The discussion also coincides with the consideration of the Brahimi Panel's report (8/2000/809) on peace operations and its implementation.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“President, in holding the landmark May seminar which marked this year's tenth anniversary of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group resulted in the historic Windhoek Declaration and Namibia Plan of Action on "Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective in Multidimensional Peace Support Operations". This achievement has won universal admiration among all those fighting for women's right to participate in all aspects of the peace process. It and your distinguished chairing of the General Assembly's twenty-third special session, "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century", which immediately followed in June, constitute important steps along the way to considering the United Nations peace operations from the point of view of both women and men. Other important developments have led to today's meeting.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“Ms. King: I am particularly honoured today, as Special Adviser on Gender Issues, to have the opportunity to speak in this debate, which is so historic, when for the first time the Council has decided to devote an entire open discussion to the topic "Women and peace and security". It is only fairly recently that the experience of women and girls in armed conflict has been discussed, and then discussion has usually concentrated on their role as victims. Today's debate will show that we have come a long way in a relatively short time. Your country's strong leadership, Mr.”
2000-10-24 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4208 (2000) · source
“Radio Shariah, the official radio station, covered the event, and permission was given to a wide cross-section of international media to cover the event and conduct random interviews with the women present. At the end of the celebration, it was announced that six women prisoners would be released in celebration of the Day. Two had children living with them in prison. I might add that the daily ration for the women and children is two loaves of bread a day, and I saw the loaves. To conclude, I would not say that this is cause for euphoria, but I do think that there has been some progress and that with continued pressure from the Council and its members in other forums - the Afghan support group, the United Nations Secretariat - progress can be made.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“I would like to close by saying that we should perhaps take into account, in the progress that has been made, the fact that on 8 March 2000, for the very first time in the recent history of Afghanistan, a formal public celebration of International Women's Day was held in Kabul, the capital. Seven hundred women of all ages, including former university professors, engineers, teachers, doctors, nurses and school principals, attended the celebration. Ten of them were honoured with gifts from the organizers of the celebration - the United Nations system, working in very close collaboration with the Taliban authorities. The representative of Mullah Omar made a statement at the celebration.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“I think that we have to take this rather seriously. On the issue of steps in the area of human rights, I think that I have addressed that. The existence of programme awareness has also, I think, been covered to some extent. In terms of the status of project implementation, training is taking place. Some advisers have been appointed, but there is still quite a lot to be done in terms of evaluation, in terms of looking very carefully at the projects from a gender perspective and of seeing to what extent they are affecting the country and whether they are really bringing about any change.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“In my view, further progress, if based on the very incrementally slow progress that we have seen over the last two and a half years, is going to be equally slow unless there is a strong, negotiated peace. I believe that in the deliberations held at the political level, whether by the United Nations or other international agencies or on a bilateral scale, sometimes the issue of gender is very low on the list of priorities or is totally forgotten. I think that we cannot do that; we cannot allow that to happen. There is another factor affecting the rate of change: the fact that in many United Nations agencies and delegations there are very few women. So we are going to instruct the Taliban to have 50 per cent women or to include more women in their projects and in decision- making, and the United Nations has a united male front.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“She has also participated in workshops with United Nations agencies such as the World Bank and in other bilateral initiatives. One of the important things in terms of this very, very modest shift we have seen in the last 18 months relates to the Mahram edict. The Gender Adviser, for example, is from one of those countries where there is strict application of the Mahram edict, which implies that any woman from a Muslim country, whether international staff or not, has to be accompanied in her daily job by a male family member. This has not been applied in her case, and we now have at least five or six other women - United Nations international staff - who are also from those countries and who are also working without any restrictions. The representative of Jamaica wanted to know the likelihood of further progress.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“The Gender Adviser, with the strong support of the United Nations Coordinator and the Human Rights Adviser - also part of that report's recommendations - has also identified the United Nations system's need for gender-related interventions - finding what the entry points are, looking around to see what projects are working and seeing if they can be replicated in other areas. Initial contacts have also been established directly by the United Nations Coordinator and the Gender Adviser with Afghan authorities in Kabul and Kandahar. There has also been an upgrading of the capacity of United Nations programming staff to address gender-related issues in Afghanistan. These are some of the issues which the Gender Adviser has been engaged with.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“With regard to the question on the Gender Adviser, I must say here that I greatly welcome the United Kingdom's support for the United Nations Gender Adviser and also the announcement that you, Mr. President, just made about its generous contribution to this work in Afghanistan. Some of what the Gender Adviser has done is to create a gender plan of action. This has taken place at the policy level and at the programming level. Contacts have been established within the United Nations donor system and with women's non-governmental organizations and Afghan women. There has been direct training of United Nations staff, many of whom, as noted in the original report, had no real concept of what human rights and gender rights stood for in the United Nations system.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“Other ways might include further urging United Nations agencies to incorporate gender in all projects. Some outstanding examples are the peace projects of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). A project was also planned by the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) in Helmand to create alternative means of livelihood by rebuilding a wool factory as an alternative means to drugs. This was to be done jointly with the Taliban authorities, giving work to 1,300 people. The United Nations Drug Programme insisted, as part of the blueprint, that of those 1,300 at least 200 should be women. Regrettably, this project has not yet got off the ground, but it represents the kind of creative thinking that could go some way towards meeting the challenge posed by this issue.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“I will strongly suggest that in this connection the United Nations agencies also take a lead and set an example in having more women in those agencies, and at high levels, and in having women particularly from those countries with similar traditional and cultural norms, with a good knowledge of gender equality and of human rights, who might be able to draw on aspects of Koranic and Islamic law and its relation to other instruments of human rights. In this regard, considerable work has been done with non-governmental organizations, academic groups, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in drawing these distinctions between shariah law, Islamic law and the Convention. We hope that this will encourage the Taliban to see these issues in their true perspective.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“Emphasis should also be placed by all United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations on giving women in the home-based schools and girls, through textbooks translated into local languages, knowledge of the basic human rights instruments and of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which, incidentally, a former Afghan Government signed, but which Afghanistan has not ratified. They should also have knowledge, as soon as these are developed, of the procedures under the optional protocol to that Convention, through which individual women or groups of women can transmit their complaints directly to this CEDAW committee for investigation and action.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“Very often those who do speak out, we are told, are subject to intimidation, and to harsh and swift retribution in some cases, not only for themselves but for their families. As one of those with the inter-agency team two years ago, I visited two prisons, one exclusively for women and one where there were women and men but in separate establishments. I would urge that we think in terms of a holistic view; seeking employment and seeking rights has to be within the context of an overall enabling environment where women can do this. With regard to the prisons, one of them had 13 women and some children, some of whom had been born while the women were in prison. There were no sanitary facilities because the current toilets were situated in a part of the building that had been mined. This was in Kandahar.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“This could be opened up, if the Taliban and other authorities are encouraged, to other ministries such as Health, Education and so on. I would also urge that in Kandahar and Kabul, which are the main locales for decision-making, machinery for the advancement of women should be established, either in terms of a regional unit, a bureau of women's affairs or even a ministry of women's affairs. This can be a focal point within the existing authorities to spread the word and to join the mainstream, and it can also be a focal point for the United Nations agencies. With regard to seeking better treatment, this is also very difficult and depends very much on the political climate. If there is no political solution, it will be very unlikely that women and girls will really have their situation improved.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“Above all, the Council and other forums such as the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on the Status of Women have kept this issue alive, and they must continue to press for the full enjoyment of the rights of women and children, not only for education, health and employment, but in all other areas. The special rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights, and the transmission and promulgation of the findings of their reports, are particularly important. With regard to how women can seek employment: it is one thing to seek employment; it is another to have employment available. I think that one of the strategies could be for more ministries to be opened up to women. For example, we have recently had reports that women are now being employed - I think about 70 of them - in the Ministry for Social Affairs.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“For civil society and civil participation, electoral education is needed, also education in tolerance and ideas of democracy, including knowledge of the United Nations Charter, the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Some of the mechanics of learning how to identify key issues - for example, how to end war, how to get education for children and how to lobby for their needs - are also very important for women to learn at this level if they are to fully participate in the civil action of society. Some of the local non-governmental organizations are already doing this, as are some of the agencies, but this needs far greater financial assistance, and I think that this should be strongly encouraged by the Council.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“There is a very successful project that has been run by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) (UNCHS) that has drawn men and women together at the local level for sewage disposal and other questions of sanitation within the communities. There are also community councils, and in the inter-agency mission we found some mullahs in Herat and elsewhere who are very open to the participation of women in terms of giving their opinions and seeking their opinions and passing on their advice, sometimes through the mulluhs, to the men of the village.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“Although, as we have heard from many speakers, that policy is applied in a somewhat erratic way, it is very important to build on these entry points. For example, some of the projects that have involved women and men in decision-making at these levels have encouraged women's decision-making on where to place a well, because it is the girls in society who have the chore of collecting water and bringing it back to the villages. So, if you place a well far from a home-based school, that means that during school hours the girls will not be going to that home-based school. Other decisions concern the type of vegetables and seeds they need in order to grow food for their families.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“In this regard, I would like to pay a special tribute to Ambassador Anwarul Chowdhury for his leadership in this regard, as he was president of the Security Council on 8 March. Now I would like to turn to some of the questions that were asked. On the issue of the participation of women in civil society, I would strongly suggest that the policy followed by many United Nations agencies - for example the World Food Council, Habitat, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and others - on the principled approach to participation in all aspects of the work of the United Nations and of the projects which we are carrying out, not only to develop the country but for humanitarian assistance, should be continued and fostered. We find that at the community level, particularly in some rural areas, there is less resistance to women's participation.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source
“Ms. King: At the outset, Mr. President, I am honoured by your invitation to answer the Council's questions today on the situation of Afghan women and girls. I am most grateful to you for the invitation, and to your Government, and to all those who have consistently provided strong support in incorporating a gender perspective in all aspects of work of the Security Council, including peacemaking and peace-building. I would also like to say that perhaps today we would not be having this discussion had it not been for the very bold landmark decision of the Council, on 8 March of this year, to incorporate women and girls in all the deliberations of the Council, not just as victims of armed conflict, but also as constructive actors in finding peace.”
2000-04-07 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4124 (2000) · source